Cooking Tours To India

You should Explore and rediscover the culinary wealth of India on your cooking tour of India. North India is known for its Mughlai cuisine, a creation of the chefs of the Mughal emperors. Known for its rich curries and heady aroma of spices, Mughlai cuisine has in store both vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes for you. Up towards the North, the Kashmiri cuisine is known for its traditional feast or Waazwan, where many different meat dishes are prepared and served on a white sheet. The Kashmiris are very proud of their culinary skills. Enjoy your Culinary Tour with the Kashmiris in a traditional manner and eat while being seated on the floor.

Because of India’s long coastline, seafood is quite popular with India’s culinary experts. Different states in India have different recipes of preparing and cooking varieties of seafood. Different species of fish, crabs, shrimp, mussels and prawns are fried, baked, picked, salted and preserved to make delicious dishes having a unique taste of their own. The cooking tour of India acquaints you with this surprising yet interesting fact.

Staple food items include various kinds of Indian flatbread, naan, chappatis, rotis, puris, which are accompanied by vegetables, meat dishes and pickles. In the south and East of the country, rice is the staple dish eaten at most meals along with pulses and yoghurt. South India is known for steamed and fried pancakes called idlis and dosas, made from ground rice flour and pulses.

India is a vegetarian paradise - the variety of fruits and vegetables found here and the numerous methods of cooking them are truly amazing. The mouthwatering Indian sweets made primarily of milk and sugar and distributed on any festive occasion are a delectable treat.

At any part of the year India can offer you a dazzling array of destinations and experiences. In summer, when the subcontinent is sizzling, there are spectacular retreats amidst the heady beauty of the Himalayas or the lush heights of the Western Ghats Mountains with cool trekking trails, tall peaks to conqueror stretches of white water for the adventure seekers.

Modern India is home alike to the tribal with his anachronistic lifestyle and to the sophisticated urban jetsetter. It is a land where temple elephants exist amicably with the microchip. Its ancient monuments are the backdrop for the world’s largest democracy where modern technology has brought the country within the world’s top ten nations. Today, fishermen along the country’s coastline fashion simple fishing boats in a centuries old tradition while, a few miles away, motor vehicles glide off conveyor belts in state-of-the-art factories.