Are you a food connoisseur and looking for an exciting option for your vacation? Go for culinary vacations in India to learn more about the unique and authentic Indian cuisine. Indian cuisine is world renowned for its tasty flavors and aromas. Extensive use of spices is a distinctive feature of Indian cooking. Another notable feature is the wide variety of cuisines on the basis of various regions and states. Every state has its distinctive cuisine with typical savories. You would be surprised to find such varied cuisines within one country. You can combine travel; pleasure and learning by way of culinary travel in India.
Varieties of Indian Cuisines
Basically, the Indian cuisine can be divided into two types – vegetarian and non-vegetarian. Majority of the Indian population follows a vegetarian diet. The cuisine can further be categorized into North Indian, South Indian, and Western and North Eastern cuisines as per the major regions of the country. Indian cuisine has also been influenced by the different rules and regimes like the Mughal rule, Persian rule and so on. The various Indian cuisines as per the states are Kashmiri, Punjabi, Gujarati, Maharashtrian, Rajasthani, Bengali, Assamese, Goan, Keralite, Oriya, Bihari, Kannada, and Madrasi and so on. Every state has got its own specialties. The other famous Indian cuisines are Muglai, Konkani, Chettinad and so on.
Indian cuisine is treated as a science and art. Cuisine plays a very significant role in the Indian lifestyle. All the food products are used as per their nutritive and medicinal properties and values. The food also varies as per the seasons, special occasions and festivals. The food is prepared in the most scientific, methodical and hygienic manner. The cuisine is said to have nourishing as well as curative powers and believed to affect the body, mind and soul.
Culinary Vacations in India
You can travel to various places in India to learn the finer aspects of Indian cooking. Kashmir Wazwaan cuisine is very famous for its non vegetarian delicacies. It is influenced by the Afghani style of cooking. The meat is cooked in milk cream and fat and seasoned lightly with aromatic spices like fennel, Kashmiri chillies and cardamoms and so on. Rogan Josh is a renowned meat recipe of Kashmir. Dum Aloo is a famous vegetarian dish.
Punjab is famous for its wheat production and milk products. The Punjabi savories include Chole Bhature, Rajma Chaawal, Makke di Roti, Sarson da Saag and sweet meats like milk cake, malai barfi etc. You can travel to Rajasthan and see the royal lifestyles and cooking in the heritage hotels. Get a taste of the real Rajasthani cuisine like Dal Baati, Choorma etc. Coastal cooking in India is also unique with ample use of coconut, turmeric, curry leaves and other spices. You can travel to the backwaters in Kerala and learn to cook the delicious seafood specialties. The culinary vacationer can see the spice trade and markets in Kerala. Special cookery classes are held and you will learn the traditional cooking from master chefs. You are bound to get a first hand experience on the various cooking styles by observing the entire process from close quarters.
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April 8th, 2008 at 5:40 am
I love indian food.
u have covered most of them. Also try some spicy rural good. Served in small villages.