Indian eating habits

Indians like to cook with spices, such as curry, chili, black pepper, cardamom, cloves, ginger, garlic, fennel, cinnamon, etc., which used the most common and most or curry powder. Curry powder is a spicy seasoning made with more than 20 kinds of spices such as pepper, turmeric and fennel, in the form of yellow powder.

Indians can be said to be fond of curry powder, almost every dish with, curry chicken, curry fish, curry potatoes, curry cauliflower, curry rice, curry soup ...... every restaurant is floating curry flavor.

The main staple food of the Indian people mainly have rice and a kind of called "Gabbardi" branded into a small pancake, there is a kind of deep-fried pancakes. Indian vegetables include cauliflower, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, potatoes, onions, and winter squash, all of which are good ingredients for Indian curries.

Since a lot of people in India are vegetarians, for protein, beans become a must-have for every meal and will always be presented to you as one of their main dishes. India has a wide variety of beans, ranging from red beans, which are as big as a broad bean, to soybeans and peas, which are added with spices and salt and used to make soups.?

Because of their religion, Indians have different eating habits. Hindus absolutely do not eat beef because they worship the cow as a sacred cow. Muslims do not eat pork but gorge on beef. As a result, the killing of cows and the eating of beef have often been the cause of conflict between Hindus and Muslims. Devout Hindus and Buddhists are vegetarians and do not touch meat.

Jains are strict vegetarians, not even eating eggs, but drinking milk and eating lactic acid and butter. Vegetarians in India make up about half the population. Milk in India is cheap and of good quality, and men, women, children and the elderly, all drink it. Dairy products such as ice cream, cheese, yogurt and cakes are also of excellent quality. A kilogram box of ice cream costs only a few dozen rupees.?

Indians usually eat their meals with a plate, a glass of cold water, rice or pancakes on the plate, and vegetables and soup poured on top. Most Indians eat without a knife, fork or spoon, but use their right hand to roll the dish inside the patty, or use their hands to mix the rice and dish together, grabbing it up and bringing it to their mouths. Intellectuals or middle-class families who stayed in the country used knives, forks and spoons instead.?

Expanded Information

Indians include all ethnic groups in India. The total population is about 1.3 billion, with more than 100 ethnic groups, of which Hindustani makes up about 30% of the total population, overseas mainly in the United States. Other larger ethnic groups include Marathi, Bengali, Bihar, Tegu, Tamil, etc. 72% are Indo-Aryan and 25% are Dharavitas.

The races of India are divided into five main types, which are, in order of their entry into India, the Negritos, the primitive Australians (i.e., the Vedic type of the Australian race), the Mongoloids (i.e., the yellow race, also known as the Amerindian race), the Dharavitans, and the Indo-Aryans. Of these, the Dharavitas and the Indo-Aryans constitute the vast majority of the present-day Indian population, and the general sense of Indian usually refers to them specifically.

The Negritos were the earliest inhabitants of India, and are at present the most sparsely populated race in the country. They belong to the Nigrito type of the Nilotic race, and originally came from Africa. This race is characterized by a dark complexion, slender curly hair, short stature, flat nose and broad lips.

Today, these features can still be seen in the Kadar and Pragyan people of Kerala in India, the Angaminagar of Manipur and the Kutch Hills, the forest dwellers of South India, the Urari, and the aborigines of the Andaman Islands.

The Negritos remained in the Stone Age for a long time and led a most primitive life of hunting and gathering. After the arrival of the new settlers, the Negritos were mostly massacred, assimilated, or driven to the untouched jungles and islands in the Bay of Bengal

After the Negritos, there was a large-scale migration of primitive Australians into India. They are also known as the Pre-Darvidians and belong to the Vedic type of Australian race. The primitive Australians were generally of medium stature, with curly or wavy hair, dark brown to black complexion, broad nose and thick lips.

The Mundas, Gaurs, Santhals and Bhils who now inhabit the vast expanses of western, central and eastern India are generally considered to be the descendants of the primitive Australians.

To this day, they have retained their distinctive physical features, lifestyles, and languages and beliefs. The Chinchu, Kurumba and Yelawas living in South India are also descended from the original Australians.

The primitive Australians practiced animism. Pantheism may have been a precursor to some of the primitive religions that are still practiced today by several tribal people in places such as Meghalaya in northeastern India. They readily refrained from applying axe pounds to trees and the like, and as a result the state still has a high percentage of forest cover.

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