The real authentic Indian cuisine can only be felt at the traditional households and the food stalls at the backstreets of this Asian nation. Let’s take a look at five most popular Indian food recipes that you must try for a delightful meal.

India is crazy for this spicy and tasty snack known as Chaat. The preparation of Chaat includes potatoes and few spices along with sauce or indigenously prepared chutney. For preparing chaat potatoes are cut into square pieces of about two inches and then deep fried in oil. The deep fried potatoes are now tossed with spices that include chili powder, chaat powder and cumin. After this chaat gets prepared and served with or indigenously prepared chutney.

Potato being the king of vegetables in India is used most widely in all forms of dishes, the most famous Aloo Tikki being one! Aloo tikki has enticed many foreigners over ages. This Indian dish is crispy and crunchy with lots of taste and yum! Its preparation includes boiled and mashed peas and potatoes together in a reasonably fair quantity. All the spices including black pepper and salt are added to the mashed potatoes and peas. Out of this mixture small balls are made and then flatten while frying them in a pan. These flatten round balls when gets brown in oil indicates dish is ready to eat with the chutney.

The western region boasts of the great ‘Pav’s’, which is a common street bread too. The bread is made with dough kneaded with sugar, yeast, salt and butter. The fermented dough is then baked at 375F as small balls after brushing with butter. The pav is consumed with bhajis made of potato.

Hara Bhara Kebab
1.    Grate potatoes after boiling. Boil peas too.
2.    Make green chili – ginger paste. Mince the coriander too.
3.    Toast cumin seeds in oil.
4.    Sauté the ingredients in step 1 and 2 along with salt and powdered black pepper.
5.    Add them to potato mix and make 5 inch long logs and shallow fry them in a pan.

India is not behind when it comes to beverages, it has purely homemade and healthy beverage that is all time favorite and act as an energy booster during hot weather. This pure healthy drink is known as Banana Lassi which is prepared by blending ripe banana with plain yogurt and sugar. The drink is much better than having those with toxic substances.

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