Basic Ingredients for Indian Food recipes

Let’s take a look at the basic ingredients needed for almost all Indian food recipes:

• Asafoetida: Also known as devil’s dung, it has a roasted garlic kind of aroma and is used in powdered form.
• Bay leaves: Used in a dried form for garnishing.
• Cardamom (Elaichi): Has a very strong and refreshing flavor and used mostly in sweet dishes.
• Cayenne pepper (Lal Mirch): This is common to all foods, and this pepper is also used in pizzas.
• Chilies (Mirchi): Green chilies and red chilies both are extremely hot and should be used with care.
• Chili powder: Red in color it’s made of dry seeds of the chilies.
• Cilantro (Hara Dhaniya): It is similar to parsley, however the leaves are more flat and it has a darker green color.
• Cinnamon (Dalchni): A sweet and spicy tasting spice, also used in teas.
• Cloves (Luong): Has a string aroma and are reddish brown, has some useful medical properties.
• Coriander seeds:
• Cumin: These are seeds as well having a mild spicy and bitter flavor, and can be ground to powder as well.
• Garlic: Used in almost every Indian food recipe.
• Ginger: Used as a garnishing.
• Turmeric: Bright yellow and has a very strong color can make a dish bitter if too much is used.

These were a few essential ingredients, however there are a lot more ingredients used in Indian food recipes but these were the more usual ones used in Indian cuisines.

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