India Travel Notes

This week we present to you our video recipe pick from Show me the Vegetable Biryani (Part 2)

It is presented in a very quick and simple way, so no reason not to try it!

This week we present to you our video recipe pick from Show me the Vegetable Biryani (Part 1 )

It is presented in a very quick and simple way, so no reason not to try it!

by ROBIN MART

Indian recipes are diverse and extraordinary, according to it’s religious beliefs, different climate, culture and availability of ingredients in specific country parts. Indian food recipe provides a guide to the food of India and every Indian recipe will it’s speciality and inspire you.Different indian food have its variety, tastes and flavors. The strong flavors in Indian recipes are derived from spices,seasonings and leafy vegetables.That’s why indian recipes have become famous world wide and it is liked by non-Indians too.The perfect mixture of spices and Variety in flavors in Indian recipes and with cooking techniques, has made it a gastronomic delight and it also fulfills day to day requirement for healthy eating.

Mutton Curry with Rice photo by avlxyz

Every state in India has its own style of preparing recipes. The Indian food is renowned for its delicious gravies,Gravies are generally dairy-based and can include chilies, saffron, and nuts,which has it’s own attraction of taste . Indian food recipe include vegetarian recipes, non-vegetarian recipes, South Indian recipes, Gujarati recipes, Punjabi recipes and many more recipes.
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by SILVIA BLACH

Spices are one of the most remarkable ingredients of Indian food. Without them, Indian dishes would lose its soul and be as ordinary as the others. Spices and herbs are also one of the reasons why Indian food is becoming increasingly adored by people around the world.

Mutton Biriyani photo by avlxyz

One of the most famous Indian food, the curry, is one example of the ingenious use of herbs and spices in Indian cooking. Curry which derived from the word kari literally means vegetables soaked in spices. Curry became so attached with Indian cuisine that in fact, made it a symbolism of Indian food in all parts of the world.
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By Manasi Gandhi

We recently moved into a new house. Our neighbour Mark is a vegetarian, and lives with his wife and four children. During one of our over the fence conversations he mentioned the monotony of eating vegetarian food. Being Indian, we were quite surprised to hear this. Though we are not vegetarian ourselves, we do eat a lot of vegetarian Indian food regularly. I invited him over for dinner and he happily accepted.

In the few years that I have lived in the UK, I have discovered the love of the Britons for Indian food. When I was training as a teacher at the University of Cambridge, I had the opportunity of visiting schools in the very English Boroughs of Britain. One thing which was common to all these places was that as soon as one stepped out of the railway station the first thing to be seen was an Indian Restaurant. My students had hardly ever seen an Indian, but had tasted a variety of Indian foods.
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