Desert is the most common thing in every Indian cuisine. There are many more deserts but if we talk about Odia cuisine Rasagola is the most admirable and domestic sweet of Jagannath Sanskriti. The Asadha Trayodashi tithi in Odia calendar is the last day of Rathayatra. Every Odia celebrates this day as 'Rasogola dibasa'.There is a very interesting history behind it. 500-year-old Odia literature - 'Dandee Ramayana' proves that the sweet existed in Odisha popularly enough to be mentioned in the texts.
This 700-year-old sweet dish was part of a ritual. The legend goes that Lord Jagannath offered the sweets to his consort Mahalaxmi, to pacify her for not being taken along during the Rath Yatra or ritual chariot ride. So, she locks Jai Vijay Dwar, one of the temple gates, and prevents his convey from re-entering the sanctum of the temple. This is known as Khira Mohana due to its almost white appearance back in the 11th century, it thus became customary to offer this chhena sweet dish to Goddess Mahalaxmi as prasad, especially on the Asadha trayodashi tithi, the last day of Ratha Yatra. This is called as Niladri vije. On this day, the people of Odisha celebrate it as 'Rasogola dibasa' (Rasgulla Day) to reaffirm Odisha as the place of the dish's origin.
The dish originated in East India; the present-day states of Odisha and West Bengal have variously claimed to be its birthplace. In 2015, a committee formed by the government of Odisha asserted that the sweet had originated in Odisha, where it is offered at the Puri Jagannath Temple as bhog.
In 2018, Odisha government applied for GI status for "Odisha Rasagola" (Odia Rasgulla), which got approved by GI Registry of India and subsequently Odisha got its own Rasagola's GI status on 29 July 2019.
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