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Cuisine is an
important part of each and every culture in the world. Every culture
and each civilization requires a cuisine as there would be culture
existing without any food to feed them on.
This proves
the importance of cuisine in every culture. India is land that houses
various cultures, traditions and in short diversified people together.
However, the
cuisine always remains different as it is based on a region’s climate,
preferences of the people, tradition and many such factors. It is
always fun to gorge oneself upon different cuisine.
It is a
unique experience and gives the eaters a chance to confront different
tastes, spices and sometimes such random experiments can prove to be
beneficial.
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Traditional
Cuisine
Jammu and Kashmir is
a state in India that has a cuisine quite different from the other
types of cuisine. The traditional cuisine is called as Wazwan. Its
history is very old and dates all the way back to the 14th century. The
Mongol ruler Tamurlane or Timur the lame invaded India in the year
during the year 1348.
Due to this
invasion, several trained weavers, architects, woodcarvers, cooks and
calligraphers from the city of Samarkhand arrived at Kashmir. Wazas are
the descendants of the immigrated cooks. Just like Kashmir’s history,
the native cuisine of Kashmir has stood unchallenged and is also one of
India’s most famous cuisines. The royal Kashmir cuisine is an influence
of Afghan, Iranian and Central Asian styles.
Non
Vegetarian Dishes
In Jammu and Kashmir
people prefer non-vegetarian food every alternate day. Their feat is
very grand with 36 course meal consisting of 30 non-veg dishes. These
dishes are cooked by Wazas, the great chefs. The principal item served
is rista, the meat balls made by finely smashing and cooking. In fried
varieties Tabak Maz and Seekh kababs are liked. Other non vegetarian
dishes are Roganjosh, Gushtaba and Yakhni. The Ladakh area resemble the
Tibet cuisine and prefer having rice, millet, yak butter, wheat and
various other dairy products associated with fruits and vegetables.
Vegetarian
Cuisine
Vegetarian dishes
are very few and the most popular vegetarian dish is Dum Aloo.
Formerly, a vegetarian had a tough time to get food, but now keeping up
to hospitality, the state has initiated with many restaurants that
offer vegetarian dishes to their tourists. Fireen is a sweet dish and
enjoying snacks such as Sheermal, Bagerkhani and Tsot are various forms
of breads. The tremendous offers of cuisine are hard to locate anywhere
else and so once in a life at least everyone should visit this
beautiful land and savor the taste.
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