Rajasthan - the land of great historic monuments offers a great deal of mouthwatering cuisines as well. Every tour to Rajasthan stays incomplete without relishing the Rajasthani food. The lip smacking foods of Rajasthan represent the affluent cuisine tradition. The most famous cuisine that belongs to the royal Rajasthan is Dal Bhati Churma.

Rajasthan Foods

Great Royal Dishes
This land has given birth to some of the greatest cooks of all times who won the heart of royal kings with their delightful dishes. The praise for hoisting the usual work of preparing food to an echelon of a sublime art goes to the royal kitchens of Rajasthan.

The royal cooks called 'Khansamas', who were employed by the state palaces, reserved their most valued recipes to themselves. Few of them were inherited by their descendants while some others were gifted on as expertise to the cooks of semi states.

Besides Dal Bhati Churma, Mawa Kachori from Jodhpur, Alwar ka Mawa, Malpuas of Pushkar, Rasogullas of Bikaner and Jaipur Ghevar are the other signature dishes which must be savored by gourmand travelers. The unique feature that every dish of Rajasthan possesses is that while cooking most of them dry fruits, yogurt and special spices are used.

Secret behind the Tempting Aroma
The Rajasthani cuisines boast of an enticing assortment of vegetarian as well as non-vegetarian dishes. Predominantly cooked in pure ghee, foods in Rajasthan have a tempting aroma and taste that will linger in your mouth for quite long even after you left the dining table.

The tempting aroma will make you forget all your diet plans as the food is prepared in milk or buttermilk with very little water which is scarcely available in the desert land. Dried lentils, sangria, ker, and gram flour are the key ingredients used to prepare food.

The Rajasthan food on the routine list of people of includes wheat bread, barley or maize companied by gatte-ki-sabzi, curries, and pickles. Curries are generally prepared from curds and Besan.

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