How to pronounce Silao khaja

Silao khaja is written सिलाव का खाजा where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /sɪlaːʋ kaː kʰaːd͡ʒaː/. In plain English letters that is si-LAAV kah KHAH-jah, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Silao khaja?

Silao khaja is a dessert of India. Where it comes from: Bihar. People usually eat it at teatime. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes sweet.

Where Silao khaja comes from

Silao khaja is one of 63 signature dishes of India on this map.

• Litti chokha लिट्टी चोखा · Main dish · Bihar

  Litti is a ball of wholewheat dough stuffed with sattu, roasted black-chickpea flour mixed with lemon, spices and herbs, and roasted over charcoal or dried cow-dung fire.

• Hyderabadi biryani हैदराबादी बिरयानी · Rice dish · Hyderabad

  Biryani reached India with Persian and Mughal cooks, and Hyderabad, ruled for two centuries by the Nizams, made its own version the city's signature.

• Masala dosa ಮಸಾಲೆ ದೋಸೆ · Main dish · Udupi, Karnataka

  A dosa is a thin, crisp pancake of fermented rice and black-gram batter, and dosas have been eaten in south India for centuries.

• Butter chicken मुर्ग़ मखनी · Main dish · Delhi

  Butter chicken, or murgh makhani, has a clear modern origin.

• Vada pav वडा पाव · Street food · Mumbai

  Vada pav is Mumbai's street food: a spiced potato fritter in chickpea batter, pressed into a soft bread roll called pav with garlic and green chutneys and a fried chilli.

• Sarson da saag ਸਰ੍ਹੋਂ ਦਾ ਸਾਗ · Main dish · Punjab

  Sarson da saag, also called sarson ka saag, is a dish of mustard greens cooked with spices, and one of the best-known foods of Punjab on both sides of the India–Pakistan border.

Food of India

Dishes like Silao khaja in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Silao khaja:

• Shwe yin aye ရွှေရင်အေး · Dessert · All Myanmar, Myanmar

  Shwe yin aye is a traditional Burmese cold dessert associated with Thingyan, the water festival of the Burmese New Year in April.

• Sumalak · Dessert · Uzbekistan

  Sumalak is a sweet brown paste made from sprouted wheat, flour and oil and cooked for Navruz, the spring new year.

• Zhent жент · Dessert · Kazakhstan

  Zhent is a Kazakh sweet served at the tea table.

• Wenxi zhubing 闻喜煮饼 · Dessert · Wenxi (Shanxi), China

  Wenxi zhubing are round sweets from Wenxi County in southern Shanxi and are counted among the eight famous pastries of the province.