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Most Westerners whenever asked exactly what food they will
relate with the Indian subcontinent, will probably state 'curry', yet
not necessarily just about every spiced dish is actually a curry, and
curry is not merely one dish. It embraces a complete variety of dishes,
each remarkably diverse in accordance to the spices and herbs used in
different mixtures. Spices, imaginatively applied, tend to be the
exceptional characteristic of Indian and Pakistani cuisine - subtle or
pungent, hot or mild, there is something to fit each and every taste
buds.
A lot of the cooking of northwestern India and Pakistan is so identical
that one, would be reluctant to state which dishes belong to one country
and which to the other. Pakistan, being a Muslim nation, uses no pork;
yet offers a diet abundant in other meats and has as many delicious
biriani and pilau as does the famous Moghul cuisine of the nearby Indian
provinces. Lamb is prevalent in both places, and both use spicing and
ingredients such as yoghurt and ghee in food that are elaborate without
being hot as well as depending more greatly on wheat-flour chapati than
on rice.
Bangladesh is more than 1,500 kilometers from Pakistan. With the eastern
Indian province of Bengal, of which it has been once a part, it shares
much more pungent spicing, an inclination to cook in mustard oil rather
than ghee and focus on a selection of seafood instead of the fat lamb
favorite in northwestern India and Pakistan.
The culinary choices of southern India are diverse again. The coconut
plays a powerful role, rice mostly replaces wheat, mustard seeds are
extensively used as a spice, and chilies come into their own - as anyone
who has handled a truly hot Madras or Mysore curry can promptly
acknowledge!
All through the subcontinent, different religious beliefs impose food
taboos which are strictly adhered to. Hindus will certainly not consume
beef. Muslim will not consume pork. Buddhist will not take life and so
will not even break an egg. And many Indians are purely vegetarian,
savoring a cuisine that is in a class by itself.
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