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Indian Cooking & Recipes
Around the world, everyone knows about the popularity of the Indian cooking and recipes. Wherever you go every corner of the world, you have some fine restaurants that offer some delicious Indian food. Indian culture and ethos is world famous for its diversity and heterogeneous characteristics. And with the Indians settled around the world, Indian culture is spreading rapidly worldwide, and is being adapted by many. In fact, it comes as a surprise to many that some Indian festivals like Diwali (Deepawali) is celebrated in America by even non Indians and Indian classical dances are taught at UK schools. But it's not just the culture that is making news. Indian food has caught attention of millions of people all over the world. In the last few years the rich and flavorful foods of India have come into Western culture with a bang. According to Britain's Food Standards Agency, the Indian food industry in the United Kingdom is worth £3.2 billion, accounting for two-thirds of all eating out and serves about 2.5 million British customers every week.
Indian recipes are different from the rest of the world not only in taste but also in cooking methods. Indian cuisine is one of the most varied cuisines in the world, spread across few thousands of kilometers in length and breadth of this country is innumerable cultures, with their varied dishes. The development of Indian Cooking methods and Indian Cuisine to the present form can be traced easily from the Indian history which is extraordinary, shaped by numerous unique cultures and civilizations that resulted from invasion, migration and merging of different tribes. In fact, with its consistent utilization of ingredients native to different regions, it is possible to travel across the country ordering the same dish over and over, and never be quite sure of how it will taste. There are so many numbers of recipes with different cooking styles are available in Indian cuisine depending upon the tastes, cultures, festivals and religions of the people of India
While
everyone can find something unique about Indian food, be it the curry
which is a complex but unique blend of spices or masala or the exotic
looking lamb and chicken dishes, Chutney, Indian pickle, Indian sweets,
any attempt to pin it down has been futile so far. In Indian
cuisine, food is categorized into six tastes; they are sweetness, sour,
salty, spicy, taste of bitterness and astringent. Even though the spices
are common the foods taste differently. Indian cooking tries to
incorporate sweet, salt, sour, bitter, astringent and spices into all
meals yet, the balance of flavors and different tastes are maintained by
a permutation combination of these spices.
But do non-Indians always have to eat out if they want to relish a nice bite of a Tandoori Chicken, or a spoon of Dal Makhani or even an Indian Pickle or an Indian Curry or Chutney, Rosogolla sweet or even a glass of fresh cold Lassi? Well, even if you are not an Indian, and know nothing about Indian food, you still don't have to worry. In fact just as you can cook Italian, French and Chinese food, by referring to various online recipes; you can easily refer to some Indian Recipes, too. But for cooking Indian foods it will be helpful if you know about Indian names of spices, condiments, vegetables, cereals, lentils, fruits etc.