Rat meat cooked as spicy dish in Assam village

Kumarikata: A weekly rural market in Assam’s Baksa district exclusively sells rat meat as the finished rat, cooked as a spicy gravy dish or nicely browned, is considered a Sunday delicacy PTI reported.

A traditional food item among some ethnic communities in the northeastern region, rat meat is sold at the same price as broiler chicken at Rs 200 per kg, the sellers said.

Rat is more popular than chicken and pork with the customers at the Sunday market.

 

“Business is good as we can trap rats weighing 10kg to 20kg a night for selling it in the market,” they said.

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