India Travel Notes

by SILVIA BLACH

Breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day. And in countries like India, breakfast is another opportunity to showcase their colorful and flavorful cuisine. In India, there are various breakfast meals that are favored by people and are at the same time healthy and delectable. In some regions of India, these dishes are served in other meals besides breakfast. If you want deviations from your usual morning munchies, try out some of the Indian breakfast foods listed below.

Lamb Saag and Chicken Korma photo by avlxyz

Chapati – It is unleavened flat bread made of durum wheat. The dough is flattened into a large circle, and dry cooked on a tava or hot pan. Chapati is often served with soups, lentils, chutney, and curries.

Idli – This Indian breakfast is prepared from rice and black lentils baked together to form a savory cake. The white puffed cakes are served with chutney and other spices.
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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.

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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 JERRY HANEY

Indian cooking is not the same as it used to be, with fancy customized recipes being the flavor of the day. In fact, Indian cuisine is one of the most culturally diverse of all cuisines and have more variations than most other modern cuisines. Today’s chefs adapt their recipes to the needs and desires of the modern Indian and the international palate. It is always a challenge for any chef to improvise on a classic dish in order to make it appeal to a larger international audience, but some of the chefs have shown themselves to be more than ready for it.

Sanjeev kapoor:

Sanjeev kapoor is quite well known in India and overseas for his contribution to Indian cuisine, having invented many a dish himself. In addition to being a chef, he has authored many bestseller cookbooks and hosted quite a few shows on television. Many think he is more a showbiz expert than a thoroughbred chef, but critics can say they what they want, the fact is that Sanjeev Kapoor is a household name in India today and his cookbooks sell more than anyone else’s.
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By Andy Mehta

Uttar Pradesh (North State) was the biggest state in India. A diverse and multicultural foundation of the state offers a range of flavors and tastes in gourmet food. From Mughali dishes to authentic rustic flavor to kebabs and biryanis (rice preparation) cuisine of Uttar Pradesh is rich, invigorating and mouth-watering.

Indian food, especially food from Uttar Pradesh is similar to the cooking patterns of Middle East and Central Asia. Consisting of both non-vegetarian and vegetarian dishes, the most significant influence on this cuisine is Mughali, referencing the cooking techniques used by people back in the days of the Mughal Empire.
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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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