Showing posts with label indian cooking recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label indian cooking recipes. Show all posts

Thursday, 7 June 2012

Indian Cuisine – The Best in the World




Indian Cuisine – The Best in the World
Short description- all the Indian recipes are fabulous in taste and one cannot resist to taste them.
Indian Cuisine Recipes has been influenced by a 5000 year history of various groups and cultures interacting with the subcontinent, leading to the diversity of flavors and regional cuisines found in modern-dayIndia. The staple of Indian cuisine are rice, atta, and a variety of  pulses like masoor, toor, black gram, and moong .Most Indian curries are cooked in vegetable oil. In northern and western India, peanut oil is popular, while in eastern India mustard oil is more commonly used. Coconut oil is used widely along the western coast, especially in Kerala; sesame oil is common in the south as well. In recent decades, sunflower and soybean oil have become popular across India. Hydrogenated vegetable oil, known as Vanaspati ghee, is another popular cooking medium. Butter-based ghee, or desi ghee , is less used than before.
The most important or frequently used spices in Indian cuisine Recipes are sarso, cumin, turmeric, fenugreek, asafetida , ginger, coriander, and garlic. Some leaves commonly used for flavoring include Bay leaf, coriander leaf, fenugreek leaf, and mint leaf.
The use of curry leaves is typical of Gujarati and all  Indian Recipe South. Sweet dishes are seasoned with cardamom, saffron, nutmeg, and rose petal essences.
Hyderabadi Indian cuisine Recipe is a princely legacy of the Nizams of Hyderabad. Hyderabad, a city created by the Sultan's of Golconda, has developed its own cuisine over the centuries. It is heavily influenced by Turkish (Biryani), Arabic.
The cuisine is special because of the use ingredients that are carefully chosen and cooked to the right degree and time. Utmost attention is given to picking the right kind of spices, meat, and rice. The key flavours are of coconut, tamarind, peanuts and sesame seeds which are extensively used in many dishes. Traditional utensils made of copper, brass, earthen pots are used for cooking. All types of cooking involve the direct use of fire. There is a saying in Hyderabad, cooking patiently or ithmenaan se is the key factor of this cuisine.
Gujrati Indian Cuisine Recipes
Puri, made with whole wheat flour, deep fried
Thepla, also called Dhebara, made with a mixture of flours, shallow fried, mildly spiced, usually contains shredded vegetables
Bhakhri, made with whole wheat flour, thicker than Roti, crispy
Bajrino rotlo, thick millet flour flatbread usually grilled overcoals
Parotha, Fried whole wheat flat-bread, similar to the North Indian paratha
PuranPoli(Vedmi), whole wheat bread with sweet moong dal filling usually made for special occasions.

Maharastra Indian Cuisine Recipes:-
Pohay Upma or sanja or upeeth:- This snack is similar to the south Indian upma . It is athick porridge made of semolina perked up with green chillies, onions and otherspices.
Vada pav : Popular Maharashtrian dish consisting of fried mashed-potato dumpling(vada), eaten sandwiched in a bun (pav). This is referred to as Indian version of burger and is almost always accompanied with the famous red chutney made fromgarlic and chillies, and fried green chilles. Interestingly rarlyvadapavare homemade.
Misal Pav : Quit essentially from Kolhapur.This is made from a mix of curried sprouted lentils, topped with batata-bhaji , pohay, Chivda , farsaan, raw choppedonions and tomato also some times eaten with yogurt. Bread is a must.
Pav bhaji : This speciality dish from lanes of Mumbai has mashed steamed mixed vegetables (mainly potatoes, peas, tomatoes, onions and green pepper) cooked in spices and table butter. The vegetable mix is served with soft bun shallow fried intable butter and chopped onion. Sometimes cheese, paneer (cottage cheese) are added.

Thus Indian Cuisine Recipes are considered best in the world and Indian Recipe is in demand all over the world..