The Faces of Indian Recipe
Recipes are important because it is the design of food production. With this you can reproduce a certain dish with ease and precision. Recipes can also capture a facet of a culture of a certain place (e.g. the food the natives eat, the materials they used to cook their food, the way they prepare their food) which is reason enough to preserve them.
Indian cuisine has a huge variety of food and cooking techniques due to the different ethnic regions in the Indian subcontinents, thus, producing a huge number of Indian recipes. In hopes of organizing and preserving information about Indian food, every Indian recipe should be categorized.
Since India is a big continent that has varied demographics, an Indian recipe can be categorized based on its origin. North Indian recipe instructs how to prepare food such as Butter Chicken, Palak Paneer and Mutter Paneer since Northern Indians use a proportionally high amount of dairy products. South Indian recipe teaches the preparation of food like Tamarind Rice and Coconut Milk Rice because grain is the staple food of Southern India. Meanwhile, Eastern Indian recipes may include sweets like Rasagolla, Rasabali and Kheeri because Eastern India is known for their desserts and sweets. And Western Indian recipes consist of Baked Fish, Prawn Curry and Rice with Crabs for the reason that Western India includes several coastal regions.
Indian recipes can also be categorized by main ingredients, people the food caters to, and food for special occasions. Here is a list that contains some sample categories that Indian recipes can be possibly grouped: roti recipes, vegetarian recipes, snacks recipes, rice recipes, pickle recipes, chutney recipes, fish recipes, lamb recipes, chicken recipes, dessert recipes, curry recipes, sweets recipes, soup recipes, salad recipes, appetizer recipes, drink recipes, Diwali recipes, Eid recipes, Holi recipes, Ganesh Chaturthi recipes, Pongal recipes, and Christmas recipes.
