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Maharashtrian cuisine includes mild and spicy dishes. Wheat, rice, jowar, bajri, vegetables, lentils and fruit are dietary staples. Peanuts and cashews are often served with vegetables. Meat was traditionally used sparsely or only by the well off until recently, because of economic conditions and culture.
Chitpavan Brahmins. Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Chitpavani Konkani. The Chitpavan Brahmin or the Kokanastha Brahmin is a Hindu Maharashtrian Brahmin community inhabiting Konkan, the coastal region of the state of Maharashtra. Initially working as messengers and spies in the late seventeenth century, the community came into prominence during the ...
Gujarat, Maharashtra. Main ingredients. Yogurt, sugar, cardamom, saffron. Media: Shrikhand. Shrikhand is a traditional sweet of the Indian subcontinent made from strained yogurt. It is often served as part of a thali (platter) or with puris (puffed deep-fried whole wheat bread). [1] [2] It is a traditional dessert in Gujarati and Marathi cuisine.
Paratha (pronounced [pəˈɾɑːtʰɑː], also parantha) is a flatbread native to the Indian subcontinent, with earliest reference mentioned in early medieval Sanskrit, India; prevalent throughout the modern-day nations of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago where wheat is ...
Biryani ( / bɜːrˈjɑːni /) is a mixed rice dish, mainly popular in South Asia. It is made with rice, some type of meat ( chicken, goat, pork, lamb, beef, prawn, or fish) and spices. To cater to vegetarians, in some cases, it is prepared by substituting vegetables or paneer for the meat. [1]
Ganesh Chaturthi, a popular festival in the state. Maharashtra is the third largest state of India in terms of land area and second largest in terms of population in India. . It has a long history of Marathi saints of Varakari religious movement, such as Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Chokhamela, Eknath and Tukaram which forms the one of bases of the culture of Maharashtra or Marathi culture.
Misal pav ( Marathi: मिसळपाव) is a dish from the Indian state of Maharashtra. It consists of misal (a spicy curry usually made from moth beans) and pav (a type of Indian bread roll ). [1] [2] The final dish is topped with farsan or sev, onions, lemon and coriander (cilantro). [3] It is usually served hot with bread or rolls [4 ...
The Marathi people ( Marathi: मराठी लोक, romanized: Marāṭhī lōk) or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, romanized: Marāṭhī) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are native to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language.