India

Indian Cuisine is very unique to its country and though its charectoristics have been copied into many differnet cultures and been made into various take aways you can only get the specific tasteb and experience indian food gives you from India.

I chose India for my first post because its a very cultured and interesting counrty with a very unique and special view on food and cooking that I personally have never researched before.



Indias Population is 1.237billion adn the capital city is Mumbai. It is found in South East Asia and is the seventh largest country. It has a Tropical climate which affects the agriculture and food production hugely. Winter is based between the months of December and April and has temperature ranges of between 10 and 15 degrees celsius. Summer is based from April to July and has a temperature range of 32 to 40 degrees. 

The monsoon period which makes up the rest of the year (June-September) has torrential rainfall all over the country, although trhe southern half of the counrty tend to get even more than the northern half. 

This varied climate affects agriculture hugely. They have diverse crops and farming systems due to the weather and therefore groundwater produces wheat and rice playing a huge role in food production and exportation. 

Indian food is known for beeing the spiciest foods in the world. There are five Regions and twenty eight states in India each with their own cuisines and food preperation techniques. The North of India is known for having very aromatic and delicatly spiced foods. They have mainly meat based meals usually made with lamb or goat and use Saffron and Kashmiri chillies to spice.These Kashmiri chillies arent that spicy compared to some varieties. In classic North Indian dishes they use dried fruits and nuts throughout their dishes. This gives the fruity aroma of traditional foods that is so famous and classic to India.

This is a Rogan Josh. It is a Saffron flavored Lamb curry which is very traditional to Northern India.

West India has a huge amount of people who eat mainly vegetarian foods, this is beacuse of the strrong religous factors based on Hinduism and Jainism. This creates a new type of cuisine that we can find in India. Sweet and Sour dishes are very popular and chilli and ginger is used a lot in many dishes.They tend to eat lots of rice nuts and dairy products. In some parts of West India Fish, Pork, Chicken and Beef are famous but only due to Europe influences. Seafood accompanied with coconut is also very common.

This is Badam Halwa. It is a sweet Almond pudding. This is traditional to West India.

The East and North- East regions of India are different again. Vegetarianism is not highly practised and Fish,Potatoes coconut, rice and green vegetables dominate most of the traditional dishes.  You could say that the Eastern regions of India are very proud of their food and it means a lot to them. East Indians spend most of their income and spare time on food. They are famous for their sweet and spicy flavours and freshwater fish is a typical ingrediant to most dishes.

This is a Freshwater Fish and Coconut Curry.

India has a wide variety of food and a varied culture all over the country.

After looking at the variety of food throughout the country I think I will try to cook some more Indian foods at home and also visit India some time in the near future.