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Haryana is
known as a great tourist spot. The state offers great cuisine as it
cannot expect its tourists to arrive with all their food packed in
containers.
So it offers
its traditional cuisine to please and delight the tourists who visit
the state in large flotillas every annum.
The tourists
who visit this enchanted place remain mystified by the cuisine, its
rich taste, the rich nourishment value of the simple, traditional food
that has no modern concepts such as added flavors, preservatives.
This food goes
down the esophagus with a feeling that can never be described by any
language.
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Intense
of food
The food of Haryana
or Haryanvi food as it is called has a certain relationship with the
land itself. The food is prepared with the purest of all intentions.
The intention is that the eater must relish every part of the food and
it is prepared with no fuss at all. The food also like the other parts
of their tradition has evolved out of their culture. The food is as
uncomplicated as is their civilization. Haryana can also be regarded as
‘the land of the rotis’ as the natives cannot resist the steaming hot
and delicious rotis. The rotis may be the worst substitute to a pizza
in terms of its taste but when nutrition is considered it greatly
surpasses most contemporary foods.
Milk
products
Haryana is popular
for its cattle wealth and is an ideal home for Haryana cow and Murrah
buffalo. There is no dearth of milk as well as milk products in the
cuisine of Haryana. People prepare ghee and butter at home and you can
see a liberal usage of ghee in their regular diet. The Home made butter
is called tindi or nooni ghee and in most homes daily they churn fresh
ghee. It is habitual for people to give gifts prepared from ghee to a
girl’s family. Buttermilk and tea is a common drink. Lassi is prepared
from yoghurt. One of the significant loves for lassi can be measured
from Haryani’s Thandai; milk based sweet drink called Kachi lassi in
Haryana.
Favorites
Fresh vegetables are
taken daily. Pethe ki subji is made on special occasions. The most
relished dishes are Raabri and Bajre ki khichri with lassi. Teet ka
achar is a pickle made of Kair tree. Some of the popular Haryana
cuisines are Singri ki sabzi, Kachri ki Sabzi, Methi Gajar, Mixed Dal,
Hara Dhania Cholia, Kadhi Pakora, Tamatar Chutney, Bathua Raita,
Khichri, Mithe Chawal, Besan Masala Roti Makhan, Bhura Roti Ghee, Bajra
Aloo Roti Makhan, Churma, Kheer and Malpuas.
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