We Indians love winters. It is the season to rejoice with friends and family over a variety of delicious food! It could be a picnic wala Sunday, a chaat evening, or a Monday gossip wali chai, and many such hours, spent together, laughing and eating!
The markets are overflowing with green leafy vegetables, tubers, and root vegetables, filled with healthy nutrients and flavours that can be savoured in these cold months only.
The cold season gives us the reason to eat more and not sweat about it! So how can we not think of all the yummy seasonal dishes that we can indulge in from different parts of India?
Let us share 7 of our Winter Special – ‘Dish to Binge on’!
- Gajar ka Halwa from Northern India
Gajar ka halwa is a typical winter dessert that is cooked in almost every North Indian household during the cold season. Made of juicy red carrots laden with milk, ghee, sugar, and assorted dry fruits, it is the most anticipated sweet dish of the chilly months!
It becomes a must on the dessert menu for all the weddings, parties, and dinners during the season.Nothing can beat the feeling of eating steaming hot gajar ka halwa on a cold winter night!
- Punjab’s Makke ki Roti and Sarson ka Saag
This is the food for the soul! Nothing warms up your body more than a heartening meal of Makke ki Roti and Sarson ka Saag from the kitchens of Punjab.
Made with iron-rich leafy vegetables, and maize flour, the food is enriched with Indian spices, condiments, and ghee!It tastes best when served piping hot with butter and jaggery.
- Kolkata’s Nolen Gurer Rosogolla and Sandesh
Though sandesh and rosogolla are known Bengali sweets that are served year round, it is the flavour of nolen gurer that is special to the winter months only!
Date palm jaggery or nolen gurer flavoured rosogolla and sandesh are almost synonymous with the Kolkata winters!This ghee and jaggery filled winter delicacy is so impatiently awaited that it can be eaten with all meals and in between too!
- Delhi’s Mixed Vegetable Parathas
Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, no Delhi household goes without having this hot, round, fulfilling meal a few times every winter!
The parathas are versatile and can be made with a number of available vegetables, like potato, cauliflower, cottage cheese, onion, radish, peas, carrot, just to name a few.Homemade white butter, curd, pickle, and onion are its ideal accompaniments!
- Gujarati Undhiyu
Undhiyu is a dry spicy vegetable stew, made in Gujrat especially during the winter months.
It is made mainly of papdi, a creeper vegetable. Undhiyu is tossed in the fiery mix with peas, brinjals, sweet potatoes, and more.It tastes best with roti, puri, or winter special methi muthias!
- Bihar’s Litti Chokha
The winters in Bihar, Chhatisgarh, and Jharkhand are incomplete without the Litti Chokha.
Made of wheat flour and filled with chickpea flour, the dish is traditionally cooked over cow dung cakes or wood fires.Drizzled with loads of ghee, Bihar’s winter cuisine goes best with Brinjal Bharta or Mashed Potatoes.
- Andhra’s Keema Methi
Keema Methi is a winter tradition from Andhra Pradesh!Minced lamb flavoured with fenugreek seeds and other complimentary condiments. Tastes best when served with rice!
India’s food culture is as rich as the country itself! Travel anywhere, and you are bound to find a taste that is uniquely rich and still unequivocally Indian!
Then what are you waiting for? Let the Indian winter food travel begin this new year
LSI Keywords: Indian winter food travel, India’s food culture, Bihar’s winter cuisine, winter tradition from Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat during the winter months, winter delicacy, Kolkata winters, typical winter dessert, sweet dish of the chilly months, yummy seasonal dishes.
Reference Links:
http://www.indianeagle.com/travelbeats/best-indian-winter-delicacies/
http://www.idiva.com/photogallery-ifood/top-10-must-try-traditional-indian-winter-delicacies/26975/8
http://food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/10-best-indian-winter-vegetable-recipes-1630022
http://www.indobase.com/recipes/category/winter.php
