Thursday 17 January 2013

India the land of varied cuisines


Not only India leads the way with her traditional culture and varied landscapes, she also contributes a dish of varied luscious cuisines. The diverse climatic conditions in each region with their respective culture and theological virtues flares up allot special and specific foods. With blend of vegetables, pulses and spices the culinary preparations are quite different and unique from the western and European cuisines. Vegetarianism is prevalent in many areas. The yore presence of British, Mughal and Portuguese in the country has influenced the palate and food of many places.
While your holidays in North India you will savor the cuisine consists of a lot of different rotis, parathas and dals and curd with abundant in pulses and legumes. Pickles and chutney, kind of sweet, are also very popular in this area. Mughal inspiration is very noticeable in many non vegetarian dishes like shikh-kabab, particularly in Kashmir.

Moving to East India, it consumes a lot of rice and rice based dishes and curries. With the influence of spic and span water bodies, fish constitutes a big part of eastern Indian cuisine. Spices such as cumin, coriander and mustard are also used in abundance.

South Indian food, like Idli and Dosa are extremely popular all over India and internationally as well. Rice, coconut, tamarind, curd, curry leaves and mustard seeds boast prominently in the cuisine from this region.

With the confluence of Portuguese, Goa serves up delectable delights. The food is coastal and spicy; whereas further up around the deserts rotis and make up the regular diet of the people there, due to a lack of green vegetation in that dry region.

On the other hand, when you opt for tour packages in india a variety of Indian food can also be savored in the various snacks and sweets shops and roadside peddlers that the Indians love to indulge in. Milk and milk based products, suji, Lassi, kheer, etc are used widely in dessert dishes here.

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