Amritsar,
the historical Indian city located in the state of Punjab, India.
Millions of tourists from different parts of the world visit this
city each year for its numerous attractions including the Central
Sikh Museum, the Akal Takht, the Golden Temple, the Ram Bagh garden,
the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Museum, and many more. The city offers a
range of accommodation, fooding, shopping, and travel options to the
tourists who come here.
The
traditional Punjabi food in Amritsar makes our stay here quite
delightful. It offers both vegetarian and non-vegetarian delicacies.
Simple, delicious and healthy are the right words used to describe
Punjabi foods. The sweetmeats, pickles, murabbas, and spicy dishes
accompany your meals and add flavor to them.
Parathas
and rice are served with large dollops of clarified butter here. This
ensures that your food base is aroma-filled and highly palatable.
Usually, they serve rice with a simple rajma (red kidney beans)
curry. However, wheat is extensively used in the Punjabi cuisine than
rice. Different kinds of wheat breads such as naan, tandoori roti,
kulcha, lachha paratha, and rumali roti are served here.
Do
remember to try some of their vegetarian delicacies like Jeera rice
(cumin flavored rice), dal makhani (rajma and urad dal curry), Sukhi
dal (dry cooked lentils), makki di roti (corn chapattis), dhaba dal
(Punjabi style dal), chole bhature (fried Indian wheat bread served
with chana masala), aloo paratha (potato stuffed chappathis), masala
channa (chicken peas curry), and sarson ka saag (mustard leaves
curry), while you are in Amritsar.
Among
the non-veg treats, some of the must-tries are butter chicken,
chicken kofta (chicken balls), machli amristari (crispy batter fried
fish), and keema kabab (minced meat cubes).
And,traditional Punjabi food in Amritsar is always accompanied
with a range of sweets like kheer, kulfi, gulab jamus, etc.
