Indian Groceries One Must Have at All Time in Their Kitchen

 

For those who love home cooked food, cooking can be tiresome. While others enjoy every bit of it. But cooking an Indian meal full of vegetables and spices, can be very therapeutic. Indian food is not only delicious, it can be very easy and quick to make once you get the hang of it. The three necessary elements one needs to cook Indian food at home are the ingredients, the utensils and of course a good recipe to follow. Once you have them all it becomes easy to take the raw vegetables and ingredients and make them into a full course of mouth watering dishes. 

 

Thanks to online Indian grocery stores in Germany one step of the process can be easily eliminated. All one needs to do is search for a recipe and order good quality, pocket friendly ingredients from online stores like Spice Village Supermarket in Berlin, Germany. Spice Village has a wide range of Indian and Asian groceries and ingredients for one to purchase in order to make mouth watering, traditional Indian meals. There is such a huge variety of dishes in the Indian cuisine with multiple flavours, so Spice Village offers all kinds of ingredients for one to purchase. 

 

The Indian cooking method makes the dishes even more attractive and the health benefits of the ingredients are just an added bonus. In order to make your kitchen a little more Indian cuisine friendly you must have a few ingredients at all times. The best thing about having these ingredients at all times is that you can also use them in your everyday cooking. Haldi for instance is an Indian spice that can be added to any dish or plain milk to make it healthier and help boost your immunity. In this article we will learn about all the ingredients and groceries that you should have in your kitchen cabinets if you are a fan of cooking Indian dishes. 

 

The cultural versatility of the Indian cuisine is the reason why there is such a huge range of dishes in the cuisine. From subtle flavoured dishes to super spicy snackables. Every flavour dish can be found in the Indian cuisine. This also makes it easier for people to adapt to this cuisine and its dishes easily. Indian cuisine is mainly divided in four sections: North Indian, South Indian, Western dishes and Eastern dishes. Many dishes from these sub-cuisines are specific to a city or state. These dishes have over the years changed flavours and have blended in perfectly to the original flavours of the people of the state they are being made in. A South Indian dosa and sambhar will taste different in Punjab than in Kerala. And it will taste different in different households all across the world. 

 

Here are a few Indian ingredients or groceries one must have at their home at all times to make a full-fledged Indian meal any time they want to: 

1.      Spices and Herbs: It cannot be said with enough emphasis that spices and herbs are one of the foundation pillars of the dishes of the Indian cuisine. No Indian meal is complete without spices and herbs. While cooking vegetables or curries or chutneys or pickles, spices and herbs are needed. Herbs are also used in smoothies and shakes or to make beverages and even to garnish dishes in order to enhance their beauty. Spices are the key ingredient in the making of all Indian dishes. Even in sweet dishes spices like cardamom, cinnamon, kesar, turmeric, etc are used. Indian spices have been in use for their medicinal benefits since the ayurvedic period. They are used in both ground and whole form to cook all Indian meals. Spices and herbs add the special flavours to the traditional Indian dishes and can be adjusted according to taste.

2.      Flours: The western countries use flour to make a side of bread when needed, but in the Indian cuisine flours help create the next pillar of foundation, chapatis. Indians use wheat flour and rice regularly to make chapatis to have their dry vegetable sabzi or curry with. Wheat flour and water are kneaded together to form a dough which is then rolled into a chapati and cooked on a tawa over a medium to low flame. This chapati is later consumed with the curry or vegetables sabzi. Various other flours like maize flour, all-purpose flour, etc are also used to make chapatis, puris which are rich in carbohydrates and help make an Indian meal a well balanced one. Search for Indian grocery stores near me when in Berlin and you will be directed to Spice Village supermarket. Get authentic and pure quality flours and other ingredients for very reasonable prices. 

 

3.      Oils and Ghee: In old traditional Indian households, butter is made at home from milk and it is delicious. Indians excessively use ghee specially in their parathas. Vegetables are cooked in ghee or oil and the masalas are also cooked and prepared in oil before they are added to curries or cooked vegetables to add flavour and aroma. These ghee and oils are rich in omega and healthy fatty acids. 

 

Get premium quality must have Indian ingredients from Spice Village in Berlin, Germany and make yourself a yummy home cooked meal.