/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20079226
Yep, in any Indian house with responsible parents and adults, they always tell you to not eat outside food. And every time our family travels to a different city on vacations and eat the local food, we end up with food poisoning. It's not only because of the hygiene but also from all the spices they dump into the food. Not even Indians can tolerate too much spice.

Regular Indian food cooked at home is usually pretty mild, and in a lot of houses they don't even use spices for religious reasons. Like most Brahmin, Jain, Gujarati, Marwadi houses don't put any spices in their food besides a few cumin and mustard seeds in the oil while tempering it, and some turmeric for color. And in place of onion and garlic, they usually use hing powder (asafoetida).