Punjabi Food

Punjabi Food is one of the most distinct and popular Indian cuisines and comes from the region of Punjab located partially in India and Pakistan.It offers a variety of panoramic and exotic vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes prepared with various traditional culinary styles, especially Tandoori style.Exotic and delicious tandoori items and various other mouth-watering and finger-licking dishes are rich, spicy and butter-flavored, which are delicious with different Punjabi bread like Punjabi basmati rice and tandoori rice and naan specially, Only the gastronomists crave for more. Recipes have been very popular outside the Punjab region, which are taking it to places around the world like Canada and the UK.

                             The two main crops grown by the Punjab farmers are rice and wheat, which are the major crops grown during kharif season and rabi season. Country Basmati Rice has been the pride of the area being grown since time immemorial. In Punjab, the trend of multi-cropping is quite common, which also produces sugarcane, millet (pearl millet), jowar (big millet), barley, potatoes, vegetables and fruits.

                            Traditionally, ghee, butter, clear butter, paneer and sunflower oil are used to cook various Punjabi dishes.However, nowadays, ghee, cream and butter are used generously in the restaurant to prepare Punjabi dishes, while more health-conscious homes are mostly switched on sunflower oil or other refined oils.Different food additives such as vinegar, starch such as bulbing agents, zardas such as color agents and coriander, coriander leaves, dried fenugreek leaves and black pepper are used to enhance the taste and flavor of various dishes.To prepare many Punjabi cuisines, pickle food like pickle is also used. One of the famous people is made of chopped goat and pickle. Again, pickles, especially mangoes, are praised by many Punjabi Food, such as stuffed parathas, especially in the rural areas of the Punjab region.

     Punjabi Cooking Style

Various traditional cooking styles are still applied to villagers using some traditional cooking infrastructure such as Punjabi Bhati which is similar to masonry oven. Punjabi Bhati is constructed with bricks or mud and soil and is covered with a metal on top.There is an opening on one side of the oven where the leaves of wood, grass and bamboo are kept to set fire. The smoke of such a fire comes out through a cylinder.

Traditional stoves and ovens in Punjab are called Chulla and Bharuli, respectively, and in the Punjabi houses it is common to get an oven called band stove and Vadda chulla. A type of cooking style that has become quite popular is a tandoori style, in which the preparation of various dishes in the oven of tandoor is included.

     Tandoor

Punjabi tandoor, which has become an integral part of the preparation of various Punjabi food items, is a traditional oven oven which is usually found in the courtyard of Punjabi houses.

In Punjab's rural areas, there is a tradition of being a communal mess. These tandoors are known as Edge Tandoor. A Punjabi tandoor is a bell-shaped oven that either rests over the ground or is installed in the earth. Wood and charcoal are used to burn the oven fire.Various types of bread items, such as bread and naan, are prepared in tandoor with delicious meat dishes such as tandoori chicken, chicken with spices and other ingredients such as curd.