9 -Interesting Facts Related To Indian

Food You Should Know.

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India is rightly called the Land of Spices. No country in the world produces as many varieties of spices as India.

Staple ingredients of Indian cuisine like potato, tomato and chili don't have Indian origin. They were brought to India by the Portuguese.

Here comes a blow! Our very favorite Chicken Tikka Masala, a popular dish in India, is not Indian. It was invented in Glasgow, Scotland!

According to Indian Food Theory, our food has 6 different flavors: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, astringent and spicy.

A proper Indian meal is a perfect balance of all 6 flavors, with one or two flavors standing out. So the next time you eat your meal, you know how to judge it.

Pepper is known as the king of spices because it goes well with everything. Mix it with salt and it becomes the classic combination we all love. Imagine how bland our food would taste without this spice.

Love eating dum pulao or dum biryani? Do you know how this style of cooking originated in India? Here's the story ..!

The Nawab of Awadh was facing a shortage of food in his region so he ordered a meal to be cooked for all the poor in huge handis, covered with a lid and sealed with dough. This would help cook a lot of food with minimum resources, but who would have thought that this would eventually lead to a new style of cooking, now known as dum.

Strictly speaking, this is not a fact but this 'cuisine map' of  India will definitely amaze you. It shows the huge and delicious varieties of food Indians indulge in

 Not only this, the Portuguese also introduced us to refined sugar. Before that? Fruits and honey were used as sweeteners in Indian food.

Greek, Roman and Arab traders have contributed a lot to the first foreign flavors in Indian cuisine. Who did you think brought the amazing saffron to India?

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