TOPIC: COMPARISON BETWEEN INDIAN AND WESTERN FOODS

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INDIAN AND WESTERN DISHES

INTRODUCTION – INDIAN FOOD

Indian cuisine is full of colours, aromas and flavours.

 Each dish smells with cumin, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, saffron and nutmeg.

Indian cuisine is based on matching opposite flavours, such as hot and sweet tastes

Indian Cuisine are of 4 types

North – Muslim cuisine South – Madras cuisine West – Bombay cuisine and GoaEast – Bengal cuisine

WESTERN FOOD Western cuisine is very

colour full but no aroma or

flavours in it.

Western foods will not vary

and only few dishes have

distinct flavours.

Western cuisine are of;

• North America

• Latin America

• Australia

• Russia

• Other European countries

COMPARISON BETWEEN INDIAN AND WESTERN FOOD

Indian Food

Indian food is more spicy

Varieties of Indian food are usually made up from meat and fish to about a hundred different kinds of vegetables, wheat, pulses, rice and abundant spices.

Western food

Western food is not spicy

predominant ingredients in European cuisine are meat, pastry, pasta and potatoes.re spicy

CONTINUED….. Indian people have end number

of food options

Indian food is popular among indians as well as among foreigners and across the world

staples of rice

Food is usually eaten with your bare hands, on banana leaves, at homes

One can literally count on fingertips the staple dishes eaten by any European countries.

Western food is popular among European countries but not among the indians

Bread

Food is eaten with spoon and fork

CONTINUED…. Indian cuisines, however,

do precisely the contrary, avoiding ingredients that share the same flavour compounds.

Health – Any health expert will tell you that the nutritional value of a wholesome Indian meal (daal, rice, vegetables, yoghurt and chapattis)

 Western cuisines have a tendency to pair ingredients that share many of the same flavor compounds

Western food is very caloric and difficult to digest and that is why wetstern cuisine is thought to be fat, unhealthy and not diversified enough.

CONTINUED….. Flavours vary hugely from

region to region and are distinct.

 Indian food hasn’t been as easily influenced by foreign cultures as food elsewhere

Western foods will not vary and only few dishes have distinct flavours

In Britain for instance, curry, Chinese and sushi have now become as much a part of daily life as mash and sausages.

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