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Food Travel Guide: Learn More About The Cuisine Map Of India

  • Posted on July 31, 2023
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Food Travel Guide: Learn More About The Cuisine Map Of India

There is a reason behind millions of people being fans of Indian cuisine. However, since we have so many cultures, it becomes hard to keep track of what we’re eating, where and how. The multiple cuisines of India are known for being as diverse as the cultures they belong to – be it Kolkata’s roshogulla or Rajasthan’s dal bati churma, Punjab’s lassi to Hyderabad’s biryani, Mumbai’s vada pao and Chennai’s idli dosa vada. Book a culinary journey to India by beginning from affordable flight tickets from Toronto to Chennai on Tripbeam.

Everything about the Indian cuisines each region has to offer

Everything about the Indian cuisines each region has to offer

North Indian – Kashmiri, Punjabi, Mughal and Awadhi

Kashmiri cuisine is famous for being rich and aromatic, flavorful dishes, such as dum aloo, lamb based dishes, kahwa and biryani. Also, you absolutely cannot miss the Mutton Rogan Josh and Wazwan, which is a non vegetarian meal of 36 meat based courses.

Punjabi cuisine consists of tandoori foods along with fresh farm produce – based dishes, such as makke di roti with sarson da saag, rajma chaval, chole chaval, lassi, dal makhani and tandoori dishes, primarily chicken. While these dishes are rich in protein and carbohydrates, it isn’t very spicy.

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East Indian – Bihari, Bengali and Oriya

Once you are in the east of India, move over from mutton and chicken dishes to fish based cuisines of the Bengal. Bihari cuisine mainly consists of vegetarian dishes like litti chokha, malpua, dal puri, parwal ki mithai, etc. Oriya cuisine takes heavy inspiration from Bengali cuisine with dishes like dalma.

Bengali cuisine, on the other hand, consists of generally savory preparations made sweet, along with savory poshto and sorsho based dishes. When here, try out a little bit of indulgence from the dishes aloo jhinge poshto, shorshe bata maach, chingri malai curry, ilish bhappa and roshogulla. Bengal is legendary for its wide variety of sweet preparations since most of the people here have a big sweet tooth.

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West Indian – Gujarati and Rajasthani

When you arrive in the western region of India, 2 cuisines are bound to stand out prominently during your journey. These are Gujarati and Rajasthani cuisines.

Rajasthani people are mainly vegetarians with the exception of their famous dish laal maas, a super spicy mutton curry. You have a range of things for vegetarian dishes such as dal bati churma, fresh malai bread, mawa kachori, pyaz kachori, ghewar, shrikhand, mirchi vada, etc. It is also a snack’s heaven with typical Indian snacks like Bikaneri bhujia. Locals use paneer and ghee in large quantities for most dish preparations.

Gujarati dishes are a cuisine based entirely on vegetarian meals. That’s not to say there is nothing non – vegetarian available here, but none are local dishes. Vegetarian specialities include khakhra, fafda, dhokla, thepla, dabeli and various kadhi preparations. Gujarati cuisine uses a lot of tomato, sugar and lemon to keep the body from suffering dehydration, as the region is pretty hot and dry.

South Indian – Andhra, Marathi and Goan

Marathi cuisine has a lot of seafood based dishes apart from the regular vegetarian fare. This includes puran poli, kadhi chaval, pav bhaji, misal pav, vada pav and spicy kolhapuri dish preparations.

Andhra cuisine is generally hot and spicy because of chicken chettinad, stew appam and gongura mamsam along with healthy dishes like idli, dosa, vada, sambhar and payasam. Rice and lentils are primarily used for the cuisine of this region.

Goan cuisine is based almost entirely on seafood, along with tasty intersperses of beef and pork. Must try dishes here include Goan fish curry, prawn balchao, pork sorpotel, fish recheado, pork vindaloo, chicken xacuti, chicken cafreal and rava fried fish.

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