Indian- particularly gujarati Food- dish can not be completed
with out Sweet.sweet are the only verieties that are named after
its taste.Sweet always taste Sweet.gujarati people consume lot
many Sweet in their daily runtime they consume atleast one Sweet
in their lunch and one after the lunch as it is called Desert.
Traditional Sweet mode of suger,ghee and either wheat floor
or besan.then people use to make sweet from milk products but it is
highly perishable.Dryfruits are the latest additional to this list.
residing all over the world. in devided in the follwing categories.
The most common INDIAN pickles are made from mango and lime.
Others include cauliflower, carrot, radish, tomato, onion, pumpkin, palm heart, lotus stem, rose petals, ginger, Amla,garlic, green or red chili peppers, kohlrabi, cordia, kerda, purple yam, karonda, bitter gourd, jackfruit,mushroom, eggplant, cucumber, turnip and lapsi.
A wide variety of spices may be used during the pickling process such as
asafoetida, red chili powder, turmeric, fenugreek. Salt is generally used both for
taste and for its preservative properties.
Homemade pickles are prepared in the summer and kept in the sun while stored in porcelain or glass jars with airtight lids. The high concentrations of salt, oil, and spices act as preservatives. Many commercially produced pickles use preservatives like citric acid and sodium benzoate.
India, most vegetables are sun-dried with spices into a thokku or pickle, taking advantage of immensely hot and sunny days throughout the year, thus making pickles an everyday staple. The sun-drying naturally preserves the vegetable, along with the spices.
Vegetables that may be sun-dried and pickled include amla (gooseberry), unripe mango, lime, lemon, citron, garlic, ginger, chillies, tomatoes, onions, gongura, combinations of these, and less commonly unripe black pepper (while it is still green on the vine), coriander, brinjal (eggplant), bitter gourd and any other vegetable in plentiful harvest.
Commonly used spices include mustard, methi or the seeds of fenugreek
, chilli powder, salt, asafoetida and turmeric. To prepare quickly however, vegetables may be cooked on stove top and additional preservatives like vinegar, sodium benzoate or citric acid may be used. MORE...