Indian Cuisine, Daily food habits & Everything related

[iNorthernerOn9]

Welcome all... Food is an important part of our lives. But strangely this was missing from the forum. So let's discuss our choices, cravings... no compulsion to post about healthy things all the time.

 

[iNorthernerOn9]

@Sanglamorre @johny_baba @Nutcracker @SKC @FalconSlayers @ArjunMK1A @haldilal @COLDHEARTED AVIATOR
@Azaad @Anants @Gandaberunda .... & everyone.

 

[Sanglamorre]

Indians should really consider adding more mushroom and white meat like chicken to their diet.

Have to make sure to eat them in a healthy manner and not overconsume.

 

[SKC]

There was already a fitness thread to cover this?

 

[FalconSlayers]

@Sanglamorre @johny_baba @Nutcracker @SKC @FalconSlayers @ArjunMK1A @haldilal @COLDHEARTED AVIATOR .... & everyone.

I am a herbivore nigga, I am not qualified to talk of cuisine

 

[SKC]

Indians should really consider adding more mushroom and white meat like chicken to their diet.

Have to make sure to eat them in a healthy manner and not overconsume.

Need to ditch this fear and anger towards Egg from Vegetarians. It is one of the best and cheapest source of protein and need to be promoted more.​

 

[SKC]

I am a herbivore nigga, I am not qualified to talk of cuisine

This is not Non-veg vs Veg food habits thread. Everyone can share their thoughts and have discussion on their practices.​

 

[GaudaNaresh]

Personally,one of the advantages living in the west, is you come across the entire world's food habits and food sensibilities inside one city and can learn from them.

Personally, I find the traditional japanese diet to be the most appealing, not in terms of taste ( TBH Japanese food is the english food of asia - the last spice using, most bland cuisine but it still works in some regards waaaaaaaaaay better than anglo slop of a cuisine), but in terms of sensibility.

I massively improved my health and my weight problems ( i am your typical indian kaku build -if i do nothing and sit around, i look pregnant. If i become active, i look underfed and wiry dehati farmer, not gymbod dude) and my overall health metrics in terms of blood sugar, pressure, etc, by adopting the japanese model of 3 one thirds.
This is a simple concept for a meal and IMO the most balanced - take ur source of protein. It can be meat, it can be vegan tofu shit, whatever. The amount of this meat/protien you eat = same amount of rice you eat = same amount of veggies you eat.
Ofcourse, veggies means not potato or another starch but veggie veggies.

But if i were to weigh your plate, your meat should be 1/3rd by weight = weight of the rice = weight of the veggies you are eating. This is the Japanese model of '3 one thirds' and they pretty much follow this model at home, whether they eat like kings or paupers by japanese standards.

Do this and watch your sugar and salt intake and IMO,its a one way ticket to controlling your hunger cravings, not over-eating, staying away from junk food and having an overall healthy diet.

ofcourse, i am desi, so i replace japanese veggies (which is tasteless steamed crap with a sauce drizzled on top) with desi veggies or salads, but it works and i highly recommend people to try it.


People dont realize that 'naater-guru' of most weight problems is diet and most problem of diet is we overeat meat and totally ignore veggies ( western diet) or you overeat carbs (desi diet) and eat meat as a side dish. Japs have figured out the best balance to their diet and IMO it shows in their health metrics.

The biggest problem of food mentality in india and i notice it across all the classes, so its not a money problem, is that Indian perception of food IS starch - as in we percive food = rice or roti. And our mentality is 'what do we eat WITH our roti/rice ? if we really like that dish, we will immediately take 1 spoonful of that curry and three more ladles of rice to eat with it or ask immediately for 3 more rotis'.

This mentality IMO has to change and Indians have to start seeing meat/protien and those ghaat and other veggies as equal to,not accompanyments for rice/roti

 

[johny_baba]

glad this thread was made

my favourite, shuddh shakahari kathiyawadi sabzee = sev tamatar nu shaak, goes well with bajre ki roti, but i prefer it with common parathas

View: https://www.instagram.com/kabitaskitchen/reel/C-9kZyciX7A/?next=%2Favaferferii%2Ffeed%2F&locale=en_US%2Cen_US

now there are some variations, like some prefer to add sev later after cooking the tomato wali gravy, but i only like it when sev is cooked a little within the gravy itself, some also add mirchi kaandaa along with lehsun, but in my side only lehsun is used, also select your tomatoes accordingly - shouldn't be too naturally sweet and should be hard

 

[iNorthernerOn9]

Chalo... Let me begin with something I am obsessed with... and I preach about it a lot... it's available in North India from Late March till June(mostly)... it's "bael" or wood apple... My breakfast for these 3 months is a medium bowl of sprouts and 2 big glasses of bael juice.

Most of it grows in forests(without Pesticides or Fertilizers)... no dedicated farms that I know of.

 

[johny_baba]

This is not Non-veg vs Veg food habits thread. Everyone can share their thoughts and have discussion on their practices.​

sir please move all fitness related posts here to the fitness thread, let this be dedicated only to sharing yummy savoury foods

 

[johny_baba]

this may seem like a blasphemy, but i really like to eat paav bhaji waali bhaji along with plain (a little salted) rice, like in curry-rice fashion

View: https://www.instagram.com/picklesandwine/reel/CyxkFfNI4zS/

 

[GaudaNaresh]

this may seem like a blasphemy, but i really like to eat paav bhaji waali bhaji along with plain (a little salted) rice, like in curry-rice fashion

View: https://www.instagram.com/picklesandwine/reel/CyxkFfNI4zS/

If you like Paw Bhaji + rice, which i have seen some rice-loving desis doing, then i highly recommend you try the uber duber ultra grandmaster of tasty curry-tasting rice on the planet: Jolof Rice.
You will have to find a nigerian to get this, which i am sure can be done in India, but as to making it, good luck. This is biriyani level complex for rice and easy to fuckup and takes HOURS of labour. But the end result....OMG.
Put it this way - i have a friend back home like you who likes paavbhaji-bhaat. I tried it due to him, i dont like it, it tastes weird and nonsense to me. I tried jolof rice - it blew me away. I took some jolof rice for him one time - it blew him away and one taste of that and he stopped making fun of Nigerians as uncultured people lol.

 

[johny_baba]

Personally,one of the advantages living in the west, is you come across the entire world's food habits and food sensibilities inside one city and can learn from them.

Personally, I find the traditional japanese diet to be the most appealing, not in terms of taste ( TBH Japanese food is the english food of asia - the last spice using, most bland cuisine but it still works in some regards waaaaaaaaaay better than anglo slop of a cuisine), but in terms of sensibility.

I massively improved my health and my weight problems ( i am your typical indian kaku build -if i do nothing and sit around, i look pregnant. If i become active, i look underfed and wiry dehati farmer, not gymbod dude) and my overall health metrics in terms of blood sugar, pressure, etc, by adopting the japanese model of 3 one thirds.
This is a simple concept for a meal and IMO the most balanced - take ur source of protein. It can be meat, it can be vegan tofu shit, whatever. The amount of this meat/protien you eat = same amount of rice you eat = same amount of veggies you eat.
Ofcourse, veggies means not potato or another starch but veggie veggies.

But if i were to weigh your plate, your meat should be 1/3rd by weight = weight of the rice = weight of the veggies you are eating. This is the Japanese model of '3 one thirds' and they pretty much follow this model at home, whether they eat like kings or paupers by japanese standards.

Do this and watch your sugar and salt intake and IMO,its a one way ticket to controlling your hunger cravings, not over-eating, staying away from junk food and having an overall healthy diet.

ofcourse, i am desi, so i replace japanese veggies (which is tasteless steamed crap with a sauce drizzled on top) with desi veggies or salads, but it works and i highly recommend people to try it.


People dont realize that 'naater-guru' of most weight problems is diet and most problem of diet is we overeat meat and totally ignore veggies ( western diet) or you overeat carbs (desi diet) and eat meat as a side dish. Japs have figured out the best balance to their diet and IMO it shows in their health metrics.

The biggest problem of food mentality in india and i notice it across all the classes, so its not a money problem, is that Indian perception of food IS starch - as in we percive food = rice or roti. And our mentality is 'what do we eat WITH our roti/rice ? if we really like that dish, we will immediately take 1 spoonful of that curry and three more ladles of rice to eat with it or ask immediately for 3 more rotis'.

This mentality IMO has to change and Indians have to start seeing meat/protien and those ghaat and other veggies as equal to,not accompanyments for rice/roti

it's also a thing among japanese and orientals in general that they eat a lot of organ meat along with typical muscle meat on animals, from basic cartilage to even veins and feets in chicken etc...their yakitori thing is basically skewering every eatable part of a chicken in kebab style

i am not sure if all western cuisines cover it this deeply, like they perhaps eat some major organs like liver but most of stuff is often discarded to be made into grease or something

 

[maximus777]

Healthy diet goes without saying, but some other things that I have learned from experience that really help with weight loss, maintaining metabolism and overall fitness are:

1. Solid 8 hours of sleep, preferably between 9pm and 8am
2. No solid food after sundown (7pm-ish)
3. Occasional 12-24 hours fasting

Indian diet of mounds of rice or rotis was made for an agricultural society that required hard long hours of labor in tropical heat. Middle class and above do not have such a lifestyle anymore. Unless you make it a point to burn all those carbs, it will result in some adverse health conditions in the long run.

I understand all of us have certain cravings, be it smokes/alcohol/desserts/fried food, but make it a point to enjoy it reasonable portions and earn that by balancing enough physical activity. No one lives forever and what is life without some fine wine and food?!?

 

[GaudaNaresh]

it's also a thing among japanese and orientals in general that they eat a lot of organ meat along with typical muscle meat on animals, from basic cartilage to even veins and feets in chicken etc...their yakitori thing is basically skewering every eatable part of a chicken in kebab style

i am not sure if all western cuisines cover it this deeply, like they perhaps eat some major organs like liver but most of stuff is often discarded to be made into grease or something

Yes well, Asians including Indians also get the concept of 'if u kill an animal to eat it, you better eat all of it, except its shit and you also clean and eat its shit-bag'. Indians do this too, actually.
Its just that japanese/east asians are less classist this way and the organ meat have proliferatd into their upper classes as well, while in India and to lesser extent Europe, these organ meats are shunned as low class people food and in west they disappeared as food since post industrial revolution, everyone could afford full spectrum diet of meat+veggies, just cuts of meat varied from rich to poor.

As far as eating organs go, i eat kidneys, livers and hearts like no problem. Wont eat anything brain related, not even for fish sometimes ( which my bong family has always found weird) and wont eat guts and intestines unless ofcourse they are in sausage format.
I dont eat soup of organs and innards like east asians do, that is just weird tasting to me to enjoy.

Generally speaking though, Japanese, even Chinese and koreans dont eat a lot of actual organs of animals as part of diet that frequently, they actually eat a lot more innards that are basically carilege/gelatin such as tripe, tendon, etc. in their daily diets.
I dont mind eating cartilege as i come across it, such as in chicken biriyani but i am not gonna sit there and eat an entire half plate OF cartilege like they do sometimes lol.


In west, their standard go-to route for organs that isnt liver or kidneys = make sausage out of it/put it in sausage. Thats the whole western deal of dealing with organs, outside of livers and kidneys and nowadays, as in say last several decades, even for kidneys you will have to go to specialist butcher shop.

 

[johny_baba]

If you like Paw Bhaji + rice, which i have seen some rice-loving desis doing, then i highly recommend you try the uber duber ultra grandmaster of tasty curry-tasting rice on the planet: Jolof Rice.
You will have to find a nigerian to get this, which i am sure can be done in India, but as to making it, good luck. This is biriyani level complex for rice and easy to fuckup and takes HOURS of labour. But the end result....OMG.
Put it this way - i have a friend back home like you who likes paavbhaji-bhaat. I tried it due to him, i dont like it, it tastes weird and nonsense to me. I tried jolof rice - it blew me away. I took some jolof rice for him one time - it blew him away and one taste of that and he stopped making fun of Nigerians as uncultured people lol.

thanks for info, now i'll have to ask at nearby coast guard station if they've got any nigerian pirate arrested who knows this dish

joking aside, i don't generally like bhaat that much, it's just paav bhaaji waali gravy waali teekhi bhaji is one of most common "curry" in my side, so occasionally you get to eat it with whatever's available in home, roti or bhaat etc, at home we rather eat it with sliced breads for most times - it's easier to break a piece of sliced bread then swoop it in bhaji and make roti-like portions with three fingers

i absolutely dislike and stay away from any form of cooked rice, be it fried rice or pulao or biryani...i can't stand tadke waale pyaaz waale chawal

 

[iNorthernerOn9]

Anyone from Andhra/Telangna? Howz the taste?

I have never tried this... but I find it very appealing.


View: https://youtube.com/shorts/bI2Kj37Cy-s?si=mzak_FPT4TLI3Uyj

 

[GaudaNaresh]

thanks for info, now i'll have to ask at nearby coast guard station if they've got any nigerian pirate arrested who knows this dish

joking aside, i don't generally like bhaat that much, it's just paav bhaaji waali gravy waali teekhi bhaji is one of most common "curry" in my side, so occasionally you get to eat it with whatever's available in home, roti or bhaat etc, at home we rather eat it with sliced breads for most times - it's easier to break a piece of sliced bread then swoop it in bhaji and make roti-like portions with three fingers

i absolutely dislike and stay away from any form of cooked rice, be it fried rice or pulao or biryani...i can't stand tadke waale pyaaz waale chawal

Jolof rice is the ultimate fancy 'chawal only' dish in the world. Its basically you spend HOURS using tomatoes, capsicums and other veggies to make a thick sauce like pasta sauce ( even thicker sometimes) and then directly cook your raw chaawal IN this sauce pretending it is 'water' and continuously fiddle with the dish till its done and rice is cooked and you just made deep reddish coloured super-flavoured pulao rice, but its the 200 times more complex version of pulao and more flavourful for sure, but a very different flavour profile. Comparable to paw-bhaji bhaji+rice as flavour profile more than pulao.

This sounds easy, but trust me, it is not and I have seen champion level 20 year vet nigerian cook lady of big family get upset she fucked up Jolof Rice on her 2 millonth-try and how she hadnt fucked it up in last 3 years etc etc. and this is EASILY 3-4 hours of effort.

The nigerians make a thin gravy sauce meat dish or fish dish to go along with it + similar sense of condiments as us, ie, fresh cut herbs + cucumber+raw onions etc.

Trust me, it works. It works like a HOT DAMN. like....I am sure if the world collapsed tomorrow, Jolof Rice would be actual currency in sub saharan west africa. It is one heavenly dish in my view, to come out of Africa and its all the rice - the rice itself is such a star that you can pair it with pretty much any type of meat/fish so long as the meat itself is mildly flavoured and stewed to be tender and soft.

The Jolof Rice carries rest of the dish.

 

[Sanglamorre]

Personally,one of the advantages living in the west, is you come across the entire world's food habits and food sensibilities inside one city and can learn from them.

Personally, I find the traditional japanese diet to be the most appealing, not in terms of taste ( TBH Japanese food is the english food of asia - the last spice using, most bland cuisine but it still works in some regards waaaaaaaaaay better than anglo slop of a cuisine), but in terms of sensibility.

I massively improved my health and my weight problems ( i am your typical indian kaku build -if i do nothing and sit around, i look pregnant. If i become active, i look underfed and wiry dehati farmer, not gymbod dude) and my overall health metrics in terms of blood sugar, pressure, etc, by adopting the japanese model of 3 one thirds.
This is a simple concept for a meal and IMO the most balanced - take ur source of protein. It can be meat, it can be vegan tofu shit, whatever. The amount of this meat/protien you eat = same amount of rice you eat = same amount of veggies you eat.
Ofcourse, veggies means not potato or another starch but veggie veggies.

But if i were to weigh your plate, your meat should be 1/3rd by weight = weight of the rice = weight of the veggies you are eating. This is the Japanese model of '3 one thirds' and they pretty much follow this model at home, whether they eat like kings or paupers by japanese standards.

Do this and watch your sugar and salt intake and IMO,its a one way ticket to controlling your hunger cravings, not over-eating, staying away from junk food and having an overall healthy diet.

ofcourse, i am desi, so i replace japanese veggies (which is tasteless steamed crap with a sauce drizzled on top) with desi veggies or salads, but it works and i highly recommend people to try it.


People dont realize that 'naater-guru' of most weight problems is diet and most problem of diet is we overeat meat and totally ignore veggies ( western diet) or you overeat carbs (desi diet) and eat meat as a side dish. Japs have figured out the best balance to their diet and IMO it shows in their health metrics.

The biggest problem of food mentality in india and i notice it across all the classes, so its not a money problem, is that Indian perception of food IS starch - as in we percive food = rice or roti. And our mentality is 'what do we eat WITH our roti/rice ? if we really like that dish, we will immediately take 1 spoonful of that curry and three more ladles of rice to eat with it or ask immediately for 3 more rotis'.

This mentality IMO has to change and Indians have to start seeing meat/protien and those ghaat and other veggies as equal to,not accompanyments for rice/roti

Some Japanese stuff is really sketch like raw eggs, sushi, natto, chazuke (rice tea). My ancestors didn't discover fire to eat raw fish, thank you

Apart from that, yes, absolutely agreed. I'm a big fan of one pot meals with rice, meat, veggies, mushroom. Saves times, tastes good, and is nutritionally great.