This document summarizes and compares the food habits in different regions of India. It discusses the staple foods, cooking styles, and popular dishes of Punjab, Gujarat, Bengal, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. For example, it notes that Punjabis favor wheat and dairy, Gujaratis add sweet and spicy flavors to vegetables, and Bengalis are known for their variety of sweets and use of rice in pilafs. The document aims to highlight the diversity of food across India's states while also noting similarities between regions.

1. Foods habits in different parts
of India

2. Indian foods
• India is meant for varieties of food, since India is meant
for unity in diversity, there are different cultures
following different style of food habits.
• Though they are all Indians, the style of cooking and
taste preference varies based on the regions.
• Some of cultural differences of the Indian foods is
mentioned below

3. Punjabi food habits
• Punjab is one of the food loving states in India, the
taste obtained in Punjabi food was ultimate that many
Punjabi dhaba’s allover the India are evident for the
Punjabi style of cooking.
• Wheat is the stable food of Punjab and they are the
lovers of dairy products like milk, butter, cheese, etc…
• They still follow the unique old cooking method even in
star hotels called “Tandoori style of cooking”.
• Some examples of Punjabi dishes are paratha, dhahi
vada, thapathi with dal,etc…

5. Gujarati food habits
• People in Gujarat are the lovers of veg foods, they add
different taste to the veg which would be unique
compared to all the other Indian veg recipes.
• They are the lovers of sweet. The Guajarati food adds
katta mitta taste(i.e) sweet and spicy.
• They are the lovers of snacks, they add bread varieties in
the daily foods. Kandvi is the most preferable snack by
the Guajarati's.
• The kandvi recipe is
http://atozfoodrecipes.com/kandvi.html

7. Bengali food habits
• Bengali type of food is most commonly said as
multicultural foods, due to the effect of history. Bengali
sweets remain unique among all part of the country
with rich sweet variety.
• The staple food of Bengali's are rice served with many
veg and non-veg side dishes.
• Bengali are often meant for pulav variety of rice.
• Some of the examples of Bengali foods are sabji, luchi,
rasogola,etc…

9. Karnataka food habits
• This is the part which get influenced by both the
northern and southern food habits. The people in here
takes veg and non-veg in equal proportion.
• The meal served for lunch will have both the northern
touch and southern touch.
• The more unique veg food item in Karnataka is bisi bela
bath, lentil soup, ragi rotti, etc…
• Recipe for bisi bele bath-
http://atozfoodrecipes.com/bisi-bele-bhaat.html.

11. Andhra Pradesh food habits
• Andhra Pradesh is one of the red chili produces among
the Indian states, this makes their food items very hot
and spicy.
• The same style of cooking is followed in Telengana also.
The staple food of Andhra are rahi, rice and wheat which
varies based on the region inside Andhra and Telengana.
• Hyderabad briyani is unique among all the types and
Pesarattu, different varieties of upma are unique to
telugu states.
• Upmma preparation method-
http://atozfoodrecipes.com/upmaa.html

13. Kerala food habits
• Kerala is the land of nature and it is the traders of
more spices to the foreign countries. The staple food,
rice produced here has unique shape they have more
health benefits.
• Kerala is meant for coconut trees, they add more
coconut in the form of power or milk to the foods.
• The food style of Kerala has more kanji varities, kuttu,
etc…
• Some of the unique Kerala foods are appam, injipulli,
sadya, etc…
• For Appam Recipe Visit
http://atozfoodrecipes.com/appam.html

15. Tamil Nadu food habits
• Tamil Nadu is always meant for idle and dosas served
with different type of chutneys and sambars. Rice is the
staple food of Tamilnadu.
• The Tamil food items are numerous which involves
limited spices with ultimate taste.
• Some of the unique foods are tamilnadu is vada, pongal,
jigardhanda, kotthu porota, etc…
• uttapam recipe-
http://atozfoodrecipes.com/uttapam.html

17. • These are food styles followed in different regions of
india.
• There are many more cooking methods getting followed
in many part of india.
• some of the unique unheared food recipes are listed in
http://atozfoodrecipes.com.

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