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Friday, October 21, 2011

Punjabi Food

The cuisine of Punjab has an enormous variety of mouth-watering vegetarian as well as non vegetarian dishes. The spice content ranges from minimal to pleasant to high. Punjabi food is usually relished by people of all communities.
Punjabi Food - Makki Di Roti Sarson Da Saag
In Punjab, home cooking differs from the restaurant cooking style. At the restaurants, the chefs make a liberal use of desi ghee, butter and cream to make the food lip smacking and finger licking. On the other hand, at home, people prefer using sunflower oil or some other refined oil for cooking, with the basic idea of making the food low in fat content.

Punjabi,Aloo Gobi
Wheat is the staple food of Punjabis; however, they do enjoy eating rice on festivities and other special occasions. When it comes to food, each region in Punjab has an entirely different preference like people in Amritsar are particularly fond of stuffed paranthas and milk products. The philosophy of life for most of the Punjabis is to eat, drink and make merry. They are real lively people who are extremely fond of eating good food. In the preparation of Punjabi food, onion, ginger and garlic are used extensively to enhance the taste of the food.

Punjabi,Navratan Korma
Traditional Punjabi thali consists of varied kinds of breads; some are baked in the tandoor such as tandoori roti, lachha paratha, naan and kulcha, while others are dry baked on tava like chapatti and jowar ki roti. There is another fabulous variety of roti called rumali roti, which is larger in size as compared to the normal one and is also easily absorbable. Also, there are breads that are shallow fried such as parantha and deep fried such as puri and bhatoora.

Popular Punjabi Dishes

Non Vegetarian

Butter Chicken, Chicken Curry with Tomatoes (Murgha Kari), Chicken Biryani, Chicken Tikkas, Fried Garlic Pepper Chicken, Amritsari Fish, Murgh Musallam Chicken Curry, Tandoori chicken, Zeera Murg (Cumin Chicken)

Egg: Egg Curry, Egg Bhaji

Vegetarian

Amritsari Aloo, Aloo Gobhi, Aloo Mattar, Aloo Tikki, Baigan Bharta, Bhindi, Cauliflower Bhaaji, Chana Masala, Dahi Bhalle, Dal Fry, Dal Makhani, Handi Biryani, Jeera Rice, Makki Di Roti, Malai Kofta, Navratan Korma

Sweets

Carrot Halwa, Gulab Jamoon, Kaju Barfi, Kalakand, Imarti, Jalebis, Motichoor Ladoo, Pinni, Soan Papdi, Sooji Halwa.
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