Jaipur Food Tour
It is easy to eat vegetarian here in Jaipur, even the Jaipur hotels for tourists offer vegetarian fare and options. So when your eating schedule is all screwed up from travel and it feels like dinner put it is eight in the morning, it might be good to get some dahl, the lentils you can mix up with rice, so light and delicious and cheap, you will feel Indian in no time. We had come in by train, an experience not to be missed, having struggled to get our tickets right in Mumbai, going to the wrong lines and generally getting hot hungry and cranky. When we recovered and had our tickets finally, we retreated for some na’an like bread with spicy potatoes infused with turmeric. I use quite a bit of turmeric at home and wondered in this Indian version was any stronger,so I picked some up and and bringing it home. Hopefully, it will not break open, as turmeric is a very stronly colored powder, and very strong smelling, bound to stain lots of things. Often he food was remarkably like what I have had and or made in the States, like paneer, made from whole milk that one can make quite easily at home. You simply get some whole milk, squeeze in some lemon juice, and let the acid of the juice cause the proteins in the milk to coagulate, and there it is, paneer. Often, as we had it here, it is served with creamed spinach and lentils, and served with those na’an breads. One can still get meat, of course, and there is no pork here, but chicken is available, and we had a chicken tandoori, which I am not sure if that is native to this region or not. But it was that bright red tan-door color and hot and delicious, as I felt protein deprived after a few days of lentils and vegetables, delicious as they were.