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Indian food is varied and distinct to the state and culture. It is amazing to notice
how people accustom to the environment and climate conditions and adopt foods either
by the local produce or suiting the climate. The quantity of tamarind used in the
South per day could amount to the month’s utilization in the North. Spices, condiments
and vegetables vary per state. With transport facilities and a seamless geography,
people are nowadays transforming their cuisines into much variety. A Gujarati is
equally found of rajma-chawal as a Punjabi adopts a oondhiyu.
Lodhi is celebrated in the North and Pongal at the same time in the South. Lodhi
sweets are special with sesame and jaggery balls whereas in the South the Pongal
rice is unique with jaggery dal-rice and salted dry fruit topped kichdi. Baisakhi
is harvest time in Punjab as Kerala celebrates its plump produce with the best vegetables
and a lavish sadhya ( feast)
Hotels are adopting a multi cuisine as most customers like to taste variety and
newer items. The dosa or a muli parantha still holds good competition to the burger
and the noodle. The rice variety is interesting. Besi bele baath, vaangi baath,
phodni rice, lemon rice, masala rice, basmati pulav, vegetable biryani are some
of the platters in rice preparations. The rice variety too comes with a lot of brands
and the length of the grain is different too. Cooking of rice may sound routine
but flavouring it, is surely an exponents job.
Cooking in different mediums of oil is specific to each state in India. The Bengalis
prefer mustard oil, the South Indians use coconut oil and other parts use groundnut
oil. Sweets are traditional and related to religious festivals or specific to a
function. It is traditional in the North to distribute mothi chur ladoos at the
time of a marriage in the family. A sheera is a favourite evening snack among the
Maharashtrians. The Punjabis are famous for their rabdi-jalebi and whole wheat halwa.
Payas of Bengal has sisterly connections with the Payasam of Tamil Nadu and the
kheer of the Uttar Pradesh residents.