Food Guide on Famous local Dishes in Jaipur
This article is on Jaipur local special dishes. Jaipur the pink city is famous for its tourism and thali. Thali refers to metal plate, which contains delicious food varieties. Tourists those who are visiting the pink city can take this information as food guide to taste Jaipur special food recipes.
Jaipur city is a popular tourist destination in India. Along with the attractions like Hawa Mahal, City palace and Jantar Mantar, Jaipur is known for its authentic Rajasthani cuisine and mouth-watering local dishes. Whether it is vegetarian dishes like churma-baati, sweets like ghewar or spicy non-vegetarian lal maas, the people around the world wish to visit Jaipur again and again to enjoy these tasty varieties. Let's find out some delicacies you must try when you visit the Pink city. Dal-baati and churma
Dal-baati and churma is a very famous and delicious food combination. This recipe is served as a complete tasty meal in almost all the restaurants of Jaipur. The dal is served with baati. baati is available in various flavors like plain baati, stuffed baati with hot and spicy masalas or stuffed with mixed dry fruits. The way to enjoy this recipe is to break the baati and mix it with hot dal and churma. Churma is a traditional sweet dish make with wheat flour and jiggery along with touch of pure ghee. Dal-baati and churma recipe is enjoyed with lure ghee poured on it. Ghewar sweet
It is the most famous sweet recipe in Rajasthan. It is the main sweet prepared and distributed during traditional festival seasons like akkha teej and ganagaur. With the main ingredient like Maida and sugar, ghewar can also be found in variety of flavors like ghee ghewar, mawa ghewar, kesar ghewar etc. This sweet is fried in pure ghee and stuffed with lots of dry fruits. Pyaaz ki kachori
As the name defines this kachori is stuffed with pyaaz that is onion and other spicy masalas. It is one of the famous local dishes to be enjoyed anytime with hot cup of tea. The covering is made with Maida and the stuffing ingredient is mainly onion. The variation is available in the chutneys and the tampering of the kachori. Generally the kachori is served with hot and sweet chutney. Gatte ki sabzi gravy
Gatte ki sabzi curry is one of the most popular dishes in Rajasthan. Gatte ki sabzi recipe can be found in varieties in other states also but the Rajasthani gatte ki sabzi is most spicy and tasty of all. Gattas are made with besan with some particular spices and they are cooked by using Jaipur spicy ingredients. The consistency of this dish is rather thick and can be enjoyed with roti and parathas. It is the inseparable dish in traditional Rajasthani thali. The curry is tampered with fried red chillies on it. Mirchi vada recipe
Just like kachoris this is another famous local dish eaten at a snack time along with hot cup of tea. Green chillies are dipped in thick and tasty besan paste and then deep fried in oil. This very spicy recipe is served with special Rajasthani green chutney and finely chopped onion for extra taste. This delicacy is found on the small hand carts almost everywhere in the city. Laal maas curry
Along with all the above mentioned vegetarian food delicacies, laal maas of Jaipur is famous to tickle the taste buds of non-vegetarian food lovers. This recipe is referred as a royal recipe made with red meat and lots of dry red chillies. The other spices used in the recipe make it very tasty but extra hot. The tenderly cooked red meat with the extra hotness and colour of red chillies is the wonderful non-vegetarian dish of Rajasthan. The aroma of garlic used in huge amount make the dish more mouth watering. Generally this meat is cooked in big vessels with tight lids to maintain the aroma of the dish.
Dal-baati, Gatte ki sabzi are my favorite. I have not tried others but these all looks interesting. I will try them when I will visit Jaipur. Thanks for sharing these famous food items of Jaipur. I will not be able to try non-veg items as I am vegetarian.