Whats good Indian food?
Indian food is full of taste- and can satisfy any taste palate. I think it depends on what kind of food you like. For meat eaters- most Indian places offer a variety of meat dishes with chicken being most popular. Some Indian places may offer mutton- goat meat. For vegetarians- There are a lot of choices. For vegans- Many [north Indian] Indian dishes have milk, cream, yogurt or Indian cheese (ie. paneer) in small quantities, but many do not. Ask the servers there- for instance dishes like Dum Aloo (small potatoes in a brownish gravy) have yogurt or cream. Yes, Indian food is ‘spicy’. Generally what I’ve found in U.S. is that spicy means hot or chili spice. This is not the true Indian spice flavor found in Indian homecooking. Yes, there are chilies in Indian homecooking-green and red- but spice is more a mix of various spices like ginger, garlic, ajwain, mustard (seed and powder), cumin, cardamom, corriander, mace, amchur, and many others. Things called Garam masala, sambar powder, raca
