A Foodie note in Girinagar Delhi

Girinagar is the society near Govindpuri Metro Station and has lot of stories in it.You just love the area as it is near to Okhla and Govindpuri Market.Your note becomes a memo when it is jotted down with words like the spider .It is all about flavour and nostalgia, and there are so many foods that signify both of these: the food from home, cooked by grandmothers and mothers. The best way to know a city intimately, is to romance its food.Delhi is all about the amalgamation of cultures, about taking the best from other cities and making them its own.

Delhi is popular for its version of matra kulcha, served on the roadside. Maida kulchas are heated on a tawa and served alongside matra, mildly seasoned with chilli and a squeeze of lime. You can recognise the vendor from afar, as the matar/ matra is usually stored in a traditional brass spherical container.  A denser and creamier form of ice-cream, kulfi is said to have been invented during the Mughal Era somewhere in North India. Summer meals are often incomplete in Delhi without a kulfi stick to round it up, and so you will always find a kulfi corner at Delhi weddings too Delhi is a melting pot of cultures and thus flavours and cuisines. There is a lot more to explore in Delhi besides the above, many dishes that have found their way to the city from shores far away. Momos from Tibet, Kathi Rolls from Kolkata, Malleshwaram Dosa from Karnataka, Dal Makhani from Punjab and Sushi from Japan. However, they still have time to make their mark, and be labelled as Famous Dishes from Delhi.

Delhi has distinct seasons, and once upon a time lifestyles revolved around the weather. Special dishes were made in the monsoon like Harimirch Qeema, Besani Roti and fresh Mango Chutney. Special chutneys were made with raw mango to save us from the severe heat. People in Delhi are exceedingly particular about taseer — inherent food properties and their effects on the body.The Mughal cuisine, that is Indo Persian, is probably the cuisine that best defines Delhi’s traditional non-vegetarian cuisine.Delhi’s cuisine once comprised Jain, Bania and Muslim food. Then the British influenced the eating habits of the elite. More changes came after Partition, with the arrival of the Punjabis. Tandoori chicken, butter chicken, choley bhaturey and dal makhani, came to typify Delhi food. But even that has changed, Delhi is no longer about any one kind of food. 

The location of Girinagar is easily accessible by any vehicle like metro bus and tempo and you can travel the areas of Delhi easily ,you just note the points of departure and arrival in your diaries and love to create the mosaic of moments in each page.