What is Indian Breakfast food?

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What is Indian Breakfast food?

Answer 1

In East India (Orissa,Bengal) the most popular breakfast are Idly,Bara,Puri and Upama. These are served with Ghuguni (Peas curry) or potato curry and also sweets like Rasogala, chenapoda etc..

In South India, the most popular breakfast is an assortment with several possible main dishes, such as idlis, vadas, dosas and chapatis. These are most often served with hot sambar and at least one kind of chutney are the common items in Tamilnadu.

The usual North Indian breakfast consists of stuffed paratha breads or unstuffed parathas (they resemble oily milee crepes) with fresh butter, cooked spicy vegetables especially aloo sabzi. Popular accompaniments include sweets like jalebi, halwa, and sweetened milk. In Maharashtra, Poha, Upma or Shira (similar to Kesaribath) is frequently eaten for breakfast. In urban areas, omlettes and simple butter sandwiches are becoming a popular breakfast food.

Answer 2

Kedgeree

Answer 3

We love upma (savory semolina), poha (savory puffed rice), parathas (flatbread), sabudana (tapioca), dosas (Indian crepes), idlis (steamed lentil cakes)....all with tea.

Breakfast also varies from region to region in India.

These are traditional, of course nowadays toast, eggs, cereals... are also eaten.

Answer 4

There is great variety in Indian cuisine, and popular breakfast foods vary from region to region. Eggs scrambled with spices, potatoes, and onions are popular in the morning, as are fresh fruits and yogurt. The Hindi breakfast dish, khichri is made with a mixture of rice, lentils, and spices. During their occupation of India, the English adopted this dish for their own, by adding smoked haddock, cream, and eggs, and renaming it, according to their phonetic translation of the original, kedgeree.

Although tea is drunk more often on the whole, in the south of India, coffee is the caffeine provider of choice. Many people buy the beans raw and roast them at home. Popular foods include appam (thin, crepe-like rice pancakes that are often filled with spiced meat or potatoes and vegetables), idi-appam (rice noodles eaten with either sweet coconut milk or a meat curry), idli (small steamed cakes made with a lightly fermented batter of rice and split peas) and puttu (crushed rice and coconut pressed in alternating layers into a bamboo mold, then steamed and served with bananas and milk).

Far to the north, in Kashmir, the day starts particularly early, so the first meal is usually a quick cup of tea with some bread. Kashmiris drink a green tea, which they make in a samovar. The tea may be drunk plain, but if possible, sugar, cardamom and ground almonds are added to make a concoction known as kahva. Many of the breads that are eaten in Kashmir are, like the samovar for the tea, more related to Middle Eastern cuisines than Indian. They are leavened wheat breads, among them are the slightly sweet bakirkhani and the sesame-sprinkled tsachvaru.

Answer 5

Paratha's and mango pickle with plain yoghurt, and a cup of chai.

Sometimes porridge made by roasting the oats first in butter, and then reducing the milk long and slow.

Sometimes "sevian" which is like rice pudding but with vermicelli. It's cardamom flavoured.

The parathas can be stuffed with left over aloo gobi, or mooli and coriander/chilli etc.

Answer 6

Hello!

Breakfast is my favoritr meal of the day and to have an indian breakfast is such a T-R-E-A-T!

In East India (Orissa,Bengal) the most popular breakfast are Idly,Bara,Puri and Upama.

These are served with Ghuguni (Peas curry) or potato curry and also sweets like Rasogala, chenapoda etc

Heres a pic for visual-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeyimage...

Here is a pic od "IDLY"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lazzari/232...

Heres a recipe -

Soft Idly recipe-

===Ingredients===

Idly rice 2 cups (Ponni rice if possible)

Urud dal 1 cup

cooked rice 1/2 cup

Fenugreek seeds(Methi) 1/4 tsp

Salt as per taste

===Method: ===

Soak Idly rice and Methi together in water for about 5-6 hours.

Soak urud dal in water for 3 1/2 hours.

Drain the water from urud dal and grind it in mixie with little water.

Fine grind it until the mixture is frothy. Keep aside

Now drain water from soaked rice and methi.

Grind these along with cooked rice and little water in mixie.

Now mix the ground items and add salt.

Allow it to ferment for 16 - 18 hours. Then make idlys in the idly steamer. Steam the idlys on high for 10 minutes

Indian breakfast is so delicious!

Too bad i dont get lucky enough to eat it every day!

Hope that helps!

Answer 7

beans and rice.

Answer 8

I've had an Indian omelette for breakfast, which is a regular omelette with loads of spices and chilli in it.

Answer 9

they are thosais, idlis served with coconut chutney and sambar which is dhall curry. also prata with curry, uppuma which is semolina flour cooked like grit. thosia and idli is a mixture of urad dhall and rice blended together. normally indian breakfast is spicy and always served with coffee.

Answer 10

when i was in middle east we had an indian office boy he used to bring us what he had for breakfast which was like omlette with curry spices and veg wrapped up in flatbread, they were delicious

Answer 11

i m an indian

indians hav different kinds of food in different regions

i generally have pohe or upma or thalipith....this is maharashtrian food

north indians hav chole bhature or paratha

south indians hav idli, sambar, dosa n chatni

Answer 12

Kedgerie - rice, mackrel, raisons - can't remember what else. Served cold.

In Nepal they don't eat breakfast but eat rice, spinach, dhal and some nan bread at around 11am the dinner at around 6pm.

Answer 13

Curry

Answer 14

Chilli fruit.

Answer 15

I had curry and pancakes while I was there.