Indian Festival Food

India is the home to people of different religions and different cultures. People of all the religions, castes and culture live peacefully like flowers in a bouquet. Different religions have their own set of festivals and whole year is replete with mosaic of festivals. People of all the religions celebrate all the festival with great enthusiasm and joy; even people of different community.

Some of the integral part of all the festivals is devotion to the God, fun and the feast. At any occasion, food has been the core of attraction, in all religions. In India , preparation of food is very important.

Each festival has its special delicacies and festivals are the times when people get opportunity to taste that traditional delicacy related to the festival. Recipe of these traditional delicacies are passed on from one generation to the other religiously. In some households, it becomes a ritual to prepare those traditional dishes.

When a particular traditional food is prepared on any festival, people tend to forget about their health and just binge on the food which tickles their taste buds. To eat particular delicacy, we wait for the festival to come.

Sweets are the most attractive part of the festive menu. Each festival has its own special sweets, like Guijya is prepared only on Holi, Ghevar is eaten on Teej. Begali sweets can be eaten on any festival. Diwali is the time to dive into pool of sweets as wherever you go you will have to face a box of sweets. In India , it is thought auspicious to sweeten one’s mouth on any happy occasion like a festival.

People start preparing special delicacies many days before the actual festive day. On Christmas, you can do without cakes and pies. Id is nothing without sweet sewain. South Indian festivals have their own recipes for special festive dishes.

One important feature of Indian festival food is dishes are prepared according to the mood and the season. Also ingredients used are those which are easily available in that particular region.