KASHMIRI CUISINES AND DELICACIES
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Ambal                        Pumpkin cooked in tangy sweet and sour taste by using tamarind or mango powder or pomegranate seed along with jaggary.

Baqer Khani             This dish is a kind of Kashmiri puff pastry. It is a type of soft naan sprinkled with sesame seeds.

Falooda         It is made with milk, vermicelli, tapioca pearls and basil seeds. These seeds give it the unique flavor and texture. The flavor of the drink depends upon the syrup that is used.

Gulra              It a sweet preparation made of rice flour, Ghee and dry fruits

Khambir        It is a pan-shaped local bread with a thick crust made from local whole wheat and it is served with butter tea which is prepared by adding salt and butter to tea.

Khurbani ka metha                        Dried apricots are soaked in water and simmered in sugar syrup and mildly flavored with saffron.

Kiyur              It is made of loosely kneaded leavened wheat flour (only maida). It is spread over the Tawa so that it assumes a jelly like form of bread. It is taken with sugar and yoghurt.

Lyde               Lyde is a famous Kashmiri dessert prepared by thoroughly frying whole wheat flour.

Mechama                  It is a dessert in which rice is cooked with sugar syrup and milk is added at the later stage and flavoured with saffron and kewra with lots of nuts and raisins.

Modur Pulav                        It is the name given to sweetened Kashmiri rice prepared using cinnamon, a little guchhi, saffron, milk, ghee,sugar, cashew nuts, almonds, green cardamom among several other ingredients. This dish is sweet, flavoured and healthy with saffron as the main spice which gives it beautiful colour and taste.

Phirni             It is made of rice, milk, saffron, cardamom etc. Dry fruits and rose essence are also added to give it special flavor. The dessert gets its real flavor or taste with the delicacy with which the rice is ground. They are served in traditional earthen bowls called ‗shikoras‘

Roth               It is type of roti that is sweet and made of flour ghee and sugar. The Kashmiri make it during auspicious days. The Kashmiri pundits make it during auspicious days as a ritual.

Shufta                        Shufta is Kashmiri dessert that is made up of a lot of dry fruits and sugar.

Sund panjeeri          It is whole-wheat flour fried in sugar and ghee, heavily laced with dried fruits and herbal gums.


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