INDIAN FOOD

Namaste (Hello) everyone, this site is all about the food. Here you will find the famous food dishes of all over the world, their recipe, their history and many more. You get to know here that which country is famous for their particular food. I am Indian and comes from gujarati community which are known for their foody nature, so we will start our journey from india.

DHOKLA:

                               In india gujarati community is known for their foody nature and DHOKLA is found mainly in the Indian state of Gujarat.Khaman is also similar as Dhokla but  dhokla is made from rice and chickpeas and Khaman is made from only chickpeas. In Gujarat said that Dhokla is comes from Jain community.

Ingredients :

• Ø  1 cup gram flour (Besan)

• Ø  1 sp sugar

• Ø  Taste salt

• Ø  Turmeric

• Ø  Water

• Ø  Baking powder

• Ø  Oil

• Ø  Mustard seeds

• Ø  Red chilli

• Ø  Curvy leaves…..

Recipe  :

• Ø  In a bowl, mix gram flour, citric acid, salt, sugar, and turmeric . Add water and make it smooth batter with medium thick consistency .

• Ø  In a glass add the fruit salt or baking powder. Add water to it and pour this into the Dhokla mixture. (Fermentation)

• Ø  Grease  the  steaming tin with 2 drops of oil and pour the mixture into it. Steam for about 15-20 minutes or till cooked.

• Ø  In a pan, add oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves and red chillis. Let it splutter.

• Ø  Pour the tadka over the prepared Dhokla.

• Ø  Cut into pieces and serve.

HYDERABADI BIRYANI :

      In India so many times ago there was mughal  emperor’s era and Hyderabadi Biryani was the beloved cuisine  of the Nizam’s (king) kitchen in Hyderabad. Now the hyderabadi biryani is famous all over the world.   

Ingredients :

•       Basmati rice

•       Goat meat or chicken

•       Dahi or yogurt

•       Cinnamon

•       Cloves

•       Cardamom (elaichi)

•       Bay leaves

•       Nutmeg

•       Black cumin

•       Star anise

•       Lemon

•       Saffron  

Recipe :

•       First of all cut down the meat into pieces and make incisions. Then add turmeric powder, chili powder, salt, garlic paste, yogurt and lemon juice. Apply properly this mixture on meat and let it be to absorbed for some time.

•       Now it’s time to roast the ingredients and chicken so first of all heat some amount of oil and pour into cumin, cloves, cinnamon, depodded cardamom, bay leaves, cumin, coriander powder and in the end add onion.

•       Wait till the onion gets brown and then add incisions or ingredients absorbed chicken into it and let it cook for half an hour. After this half an hour add garam masala and coconut powder. Just check that chicken pieces are very well roasted.

•        Now it’s time to cook basmati rice. Take some amount of basmati rice and pour some water into it and then cooked it into cooker. Then you need to add some teaspoons of salt into it. You can add some colorful rice so your dish looks more beautiful.

•       the next step is to layering the rice-chicken stage. First take a big plate and first make layer of half cooked rice then half of chicken layer then again make the layer of chicken and in the end again make the stage of remaining chicken.

•       We will now fry some onion and cashew and  put some ghee, coconut milk, and coriander. We will carefully heat it till the ghee comes at the bottom.

•       Now it’s time to decorate the dish by adding this mixture and enjoy this carefully made food….