Namaste! नमस्ते!: Indian Cuisine

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Indian Cuisine is rich in flavor and the spiciness it imprints onto our tongues. Curry, for example, the national Indian cuisine and tandoori chicken is famous throughout the globe for their abundance in flavors and textures.

So why is a country with a scorching hot weather has spicy, sweat inducing food as their staple? Chili and turmeric, two of the main components of Curry is known for their health benefits such as regulating the blood flows and induce sweats to regulate the body heat. Back in the days, most Indians are farmers who have to work for long hours under the blazing sun, so curry will come in pretty helpful for they will sweat if they eat curry, and everyone knows that your body sweat to lower your body temperature.

Despite that, curry isn't the only food from India. The country has been deeply influences by neighboring countries with different cultures, therefore the cuisine and culinary styles differ by regions.

All in all, one thing that is fixed throughout the Indian cuisine is the generosity in the use of spice; curry alone consist of up to 20 different kinds of spices all blended together to an aromatic concoction. Different components also create a different kind of curry. There are the usual Chicken or seafood curry, and then there's daal curry, green curry etc, each with a different texture and a unique taste of its own. In fact, certain Indian cuisine, especially Curry is so popular that you can find all sorts of modified curries around the globe such as the chinese watery curry, the Japanese sweet curry and the Malaysian version.

3 Vocabularies
(a) Abundantly: Present in great quantity.
(b) Immense: Vast, very huge, a great amount
(c) Pickles: Vegetables (eg: cucumber, olives) preserved in vinegar and eaten as relish.

The Colorful Indian Feast

Banana Leaf Rice: Serve on a banana leaf to bring out the aromatic quality of the leaf and the Basmati Rice, along with a few selection of dishes and curries.