Nosh on Goan Food & Delight Your Taste Buds

Goa, a place famous for sun, beaches, food and feni, is on every traveller’s itinerary when they plan of visiting India. Even for Indians, Goa happens to be a hot spot destination for spending a few leisurely days. The lip smacking food and delicacies are sure to remain on your taste buds for a longer period – that’s Goan food for you!

Goan cuisine consists of local specialities loved across Goa. Some of the main ingredients of Goan food include chicken, lamb, seafood, coconut milk, rice, and area-specific intense spices. Not just this, what adds to its ultimate taste is the distinct feature in the food of Goa – that is, the use of kokum. Moreover, any meal is apparently considered incomplete without fish. Just because Goa has both Hindu and Catholic communities, here fish is the staple of each of them. For Goans, fish, curry and rice are the inseparable parts of life, almost like necessities. All these combined can be said to be a plate full of heavenly delight for the Goans. Even those who visit Goa affirm that Goa can be summed up in Goan food and drink – fish, curry, rice and feni!

The spot on flavours of Goan food and the tastes it proffer only conjugate to open the pandora’s box of comprehensive culinary delicacies of Goa. Goa specialises in Bebinca, Ambot Tik, Crab Xec Xec, Fish Curry Rice, Chicken Cafreal, Goan Feni, Sorpotel, Mushroom Xacuti, Mackerel Reacheado, Sanna and Goan Sausages, to count a few. These ingredients are a part of traditional Goan cooking which isn’t easy. The taste that these ingredients release is a result of a lot of effort and time. It takes enormous amount of muscle work to produce the desired tang – as grinding is a part of almost every traditional recipe. Additionally, time needs to be invested to get the taste you wish for, however, with the time it takes to be prepared, the dish gets tastier.

But, it’s not every dish that takes hours to be prepared; some of the Goan food recipes are really simple and don’t cost you much of your time, rest assured, the taste isn’t compromised!! Other foods are chilli hot, spicy, and pungent. Besides this, seafood such as prawns, lobsters, crabs, pomfrets, clams, ladyfish, mussels, and oysters are used in preparation of a variety of curries, fries, soups and pickles.

Visit Goa for the delightful and mouth watering Goan food, and to relish its exclusive drink Feni, apart from remarkably welcoming culture and people.