![]() But if you eat with your fingers, you must never touch the food with your left hand. Using the fingers to eat is common in India, and foreigners are welcome to eat this way too. In fact, it might be best to let others order an Indian meal unless you know everyone's religion, or unless you're only ordering vegetarian dishes that everyone can eat like potato and cauliflower aloo gobi or a simple dish like dal that only contains lentils and spices. Jains never eat meat of any sort, and many don't eat onions, potatoes or garlic either, while many Buddhists also prefer a vegetarian diet. Eating pigs is strictly forbidden in Islam, and most Muslims also refuse to eat other animals unless they're killed in a certain way. ![]() ![]() In Hinduism the cow is a sacred animal, so most Hindus don't eat beef. Each of these religions has its own set of rules about food, and because Indian meals usually include many dishes that are shared, ordering is complicated if people of different religions are eating together. Three of the world's major religions - Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism - developed in ancient India, and Islam was introduced when North India was conquered by the Mughal Empire in 1526. This is because North Indian food was greatly influenced by Middle Eastern cuisines of the Islamic Mughal Empire in which flatbreads were the staple foods, while South Indian food is more like traditional Hindu cuisine of ancient India in which rice was the staple food. For example, wheat-flour flatbreads are common in the North while in the South rice is more common. In many cases they use different cooking methods, different ingredients, and even different spices. To make it easier to understand Indian cuisine, it's often divided into two main types North Indian and South Indian. ![]() There are dozens of regional Indian cuisines, each with its own special dishes. But there's much more to Indian food than this. When thinking of Indian food, many people think of curries and rice. Photo: Indian cuisine, with appetizers, meat and vegetable dishes, flatbreads and steamed rice ![]()
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