So I'm from Durban (it's a city in south africa) and we have a really big Indian community so a lot of our food have a lot of Indian influences like biriyani has become a great party dish for us and roti is also in like almost everyone's freezer😀😀ah but fresh roti *chefs kiss*
States which share border with both south and north are lucky..I am from Odisha..morning starts with Idli dosa,end with alu paratha,chapati,roti..besides we have our own cuisine. .
@@santusanturohit4832odia cuisine is so vast ...sad not one decent odia channel on youtube ...bengali here ...i know odia food is huge and want to learn ...but how!
As an Odia person living in Maharashtra, I am really lucky to be exposed to all sorts of foods from Chapati to Rice to Fish curries and Pumpkin flowers!
Yes!! Reminds me...I am Japanese and some people think we eat sushi everyday. We do love sushi, but it's pretty pricey so we don't eat it everyday!!😆😅 My family does eat rice almost everyday, though...so good
In the Eastern, Northeastern and Southern States of India and even some Central Indian state Rice is eaten more than roti or parathaas so yah!! And in India we have a different types of rice(not including hybrids)!!
Kenya and many African countries and also the Caribbean countries have a heavy Indian influence due to centuries of trade, slave trade by the colonizers and mass migration of Indians in these countries.
The thing is, like you said, naan is a restaurant dish, which is why it is more prevalent outside of India compared to other types of bread. Because outside of India, the only way to have Indian food is in Indian restaurant, unless you're lucky enough to have an Indian friend who cooks for you. And pretty much all Indian restaurants have a tandoor and feature tandoori chicken and naan. I'm a Vietnamese and have faced the same problem when I meet foreign friends too. They only know either pho (a noodles dish) or banh mi (our common sandwich) and assume we have it every day because it's a restaurant dish that is often served outside of Vietnam. In reality, the home cooked meal is way different and simpler because making the stock for pho takes time and money and fuel; and most Vietnamese people don't own a bread oven or know how to bake bread, either. Plus it is just as time consuming.
EXACTLY, I'm Indian I'm from west India. I dont eat naan that much only where we actually decide to go to restaurants (we dont go often). It's just Chapati/Roti and Bakari. Thank you for your time 🖤
@@hasanjamalkhan689 well we have lived together for centuries so we too adopted naan but making it at home is not possible because we don't have tandoor at our home.
And wedding in Gujarat offer Roti similar to home so we have to go to restaurant for Naan and even there they are like “sir chapati or naan?” And mom says chapati😒
This video makes me soo happy!!!! I cannot express enough that Indian food comes with so many varieties. Butter chicken and naan are just the 2 two things famously known. We don't eat them everyday. We're not dogs where we get excited to eat the same food every single day. But I will say we would decide to eat either rice or rotis or with the main meal on its own. From lentils, to okras, eggplants, potatoes, cauliflower, squash, lokee (idk the English name), bitter melon, green beans, and so much more. These are either eaten together or alone. I like naan, but it's not my thing everyday. And naan? There's the classic roti, paranti, aloo paranti, double-roti paranti. Many things!
Whenever I was younger and would bring roti to school for my lunch people would always say that I’m so lucky because I get pancakes for lunch. Had to tell them
In our family, we only get to eat naan when we go to someone's wedding ceremony or birthday ceremony(in bengali, voj). We can't even finish a whole naan because we have so many other foods to eat too.
i love the way indian food smells and looks! i wish i was more adventurous because i have a lot of texture problems and i fear i won’t like the texture of some things, and i grew up in a household of you eat it or you get punished for wasting, which i get, it pushed me in a corner food wise. but some of your recipes make me curious enough to try it out! cause you almost have done “beginner” friendly options! i love your content, never stop being you!
Yes we don't eat naans on a regular basis but occasionally (not in restaurant cuz my mum is the best cook) . Foreigners need to know that Indian dishes are not only restricted to what Indian restaurants serve them. We have much much more variety than the restaurants
Lol, me a mexican: "hey that's a tortilla! I eat that too!" It's cool to see the different foods other groups eat and feel a connection with that group, we're all so different but similar; I makes me feel like distant siblings or something❤ (hahaha if that makes sense)
indian and mexican foods are very similar, the only differences are because of the different kind of chillies and basically the spices have a different texture cause of climate
@@deltahunter2302 it's more like Asians we're the ancestors. Our Indigenous ancestors were distant relatives to our Indigenous American ancestors that move to and populated the Americans, so one could argue we're branches of the same tree. And that all over Latin America, we've had huge migrations coming from all over Eurasia(including middle east persons) and Africa, and they brought their culture and helped make the Latin America we know and love today. It's cool to see how we all relate cuz even through we come from backgrounds we can still acknowledge and appreciate how similar we all are
@@kotishjaiman8231 Indians know how to spice, almost every Asian meal I had was spicy but so bomb. Even my Mexican ama was like the asians got us beat🌶😂 as we're enjoying a spicy soup with tears going down our faces🥲😋
I never thought I would find someone on RU-vid saying this !!!! Literally goes through my mind every time I see people gaga over naan. Also, has anyone noticed how everyone seems to be obsessed with garam masala? Like it's not the only spice mix in India!
@@namrtadevi9311 we do exsist it's not a thing in eastern india... We eat bajra, jowar, mandua, maze, rice grain, wheat, millet, ragi rotis.... Maida rotis are not considered good... And these grains r authentic to india.. And tandoor is not indian thing .... It's some where from turkey or albania..
@@namrtadevi9311 If you go to eastern Side of India they love to eat Rice 🍚 and in western part of India mostly eat maize,barley etc. Most of Nan eater from Middle of India & Deccan part.... And some people in village are don't love naan but PURI.
ahem as a Indian in India that makes naan atleast once a week not always in a tandoor depending on location. i advocate for it a lot it's great and will definitely have an impact on how often you eat out
THANK YOU. My schools uneducated to say the least about our culture and in a class they had to teach our culture 😢 it was so bad tho they didn’t get a lot right, my grandmother hates when we but Rotis, she will call me and my cousin and we will all make them together! It’s a great time
BRO SAME!! i ate naan for the first time when I came to the Philippines. And I didn't even eat naan that often in the Philippines. I saw MULTIPLE people react to Indian food and they ALL ate naan. And I was like okay let's try this. Where I am from and when I left India naan wasn't that hit of a food. We mostly ate rice at home and maybe sometimes chapati. And for eating out mostly Indo Chinese. Most closest to naan I have eaten in India was tandoori roti.
We make chapati as well in my country . A bunch of Indian immigrants were brought by the British during colonialism and they brought Chapati and pilau to my country and they are now popular dishes
Two of the most simple yet satiating dishes I know are "ghee roti" and "doodh roti". The first one is the chapati with some clarified butter and salt all over it while it's hot. It's HEAVEN. The second one is literally milk with chapati and sugar and you mix it well(with your HANDS) and it's amazing. Simple yet superb.
Here from pakistan, also go through the same stereotype. Chappati is always the better option (unless you're eating haleem, paya or nihari). The feeling of eating a fresh cooked chappati woth some aloo k kebab or daal is honestly the best.
I now understand how privileged I am because I eat naan all the time. Because my dad owns a Desi restaurant and serves South Indian food even though he is Bangladeshi and his chef (who has been friends with my dad for 30+ years) loves my family and makes us naan all time from cheese naan, ghee naan, and garlic naan. I always thought that most desi people had naan all the time but I guess we have roti more often than naan lol
Im from Turkey and we have something so similar to naan and we call it bazlama and my grandma makes so many of them because she eats them as bread EVERYDAY and ı gotta say whenever we have bazlama ı cant resist and eat so much of them
So one of my closest friends since third grade Arsh is Indian and oh my freaking goodness his mom makes the best food I’ve ever had. She also sells her food at the farmers markets on Saturdays. This week she made garlic naan and I have no words it was so good
Naan is generally made of all purpose flour " Maida" they are pretty hard to digest , so you can't eat it everyday it's not good for your stomach. So we mostly consume Chapati
I remember being invited to my Indian neighbor’s retirement party when I was a kid and oh my god the food. The way my eyes were OPENED. I can’t remember if the bread was a naan or a roti but I DEVOURED it and never looked back since.
@@midlunshine8830 yea..we wanted to say.. it's not an INDIAN thing.. traditionally.. there's no cheese naan in Indian cuisine..many varieties of stuffed naan along with butter naan are popular in India..cheese naan is just a indo-western fusion..
That's because tandoor is not native to India. Mughals introduced it to Indians. Tandoor is native to central asian countries. Even today villages in central asian countries use tandoor for making bread. But in India we will find "chool ( this is how it is called in my mother tongue)" and not tandoor just like tandoor in "stan" countries
When I read online, it says that the tandoor originated in Rajasthan. The modern tandoor we use today was brought by the mughals. Traces of tandoor were in India before the mughals.
We also eat parathe. Which is a filled flatbread made with whole wheat flour and popularly filled with potatoes and/or onions and/or paneer.(paneer is basically solidified cheese curds formed by putting lemon juice or edible acid into whe mill whe boiling )
Foreigners need to be explained that restaurant menu and home menu in India is almost mutually exclusive. Home cooked food is for maintaining health and not meant to be gorged and may not be tasty and restaurant food is for celebration and not health. Indians mostly eat a huge variety of vegetable dishes cooked at home and not available in any restaurant. Indians eat snacks (chat, samosa, sweets, kachori, laddoo, batura) and restaurant food (Mughlai cuisine) that normally no housewife knows how to cook. Each have their exclusive domain. Another thing is most North Indian restaurant food is Iranian or Central Asian in origin.
Love your videos usually but it's high time we stop gate keeping food and cuisines. Cheese naan is absolutely a thing, yeah this thing came out later and is not traditional in any way, but when we experiment with Chinese food in the name of Indo Chinese food then why not Cheese naan? Born and brought up in India and lived here for my whole life and I definitely like to enjoy cheese naan when I eat out.
You can start with butter-paneer or mattar(pea)-paneer or palak(spinach)-paneer or Shahi paneer or paneer tikka or paneer bhurji or paneer lababdaar or paneer tikka masala or chilly paneer. Or simply stir fried ocra or potato or mix veg sabzi or an eggplant and veggies bharta( mashed dish) Paneer is Indian cottage cheese you can use tofu instead, but for authentic taste go for paneer. sabzi is a vegetable dish that is stir-fried with spices and served as a main course or side dish. All these can be paired with roti/chapati, rice or naan or parantha. Or you can try idli + sambhar+ chatni or dosai or rasam. Idli is kinda fluffy rice pancakes Sambhar - veggies and lentils curry Chatni - a dipping sauce usually made of coconut. Other than that samosas, bhajiye, mo:mo, golgappe/pani-puri, vada pav, dhokla, chaats can be tried, these are among the foods we usually snack on.
@@wonderfullife737 don't make yourself an idiot in historical facts. Meso-Americans have nothing to do with Indian subcontinent culture. Start learning geography & anthropology related subjects. Reduce following What'sApp university materials.
Being a Bengali, we are a perfect mixture of both North and South Indian then. Because we eat rice for lunch and roti for dinner traditionally in our households. But many Bengalis prefer rice both times as well.
@@i_love_sparrow2502 its Eastern India. And in my household and in my neighbours there are many who prefer rice before going to office which is breakfast and at dinner as well.
Exactly!!! Being a north east Indian have faced it a lot. We do not always eat chow mein and momo. Just like any other street food in India it’s also a street food for us😅
Yeah I was wondering how it was made at home. Thank you for clearing that up. I remember seeing the huge clay ovens and thinking I can not do THAT in my oven. Hahaha thank you for your great content.
There are ways to cook it at home over normal gas range too. The process is a little slow though. So if they are cooked at home it's for special occasion or maybe if you are too finicky about not eating outside food!!
It can be made at home with an iron pan but it's really slow n takes too much time coz it's not the right temperature like the tandoor.. i hv tried to make it several times.. doesn't taste the same..
They eat naan coz you all have gone to restaurants who have Punjabi influenced menus ....the kebabs....tandoori chicken...lassi....paneer tikka...tandoori chicken tikka masala....the best with naan. It's a treat & close to kulcha😊
Naan's are an occasional thing here in India. We don't eat it everyday in fact anytime when we're visiting a restaurant that too my family avoids it as it's thicker and makes the entire food heavy to digest considering the fact that the main course ordered is heavier in cream & masala. Tandoori roti is a great option if u don't want to have plain chapati or naans. There's also another version of naan that is called kulcha which is usually stuffed like paratha. It's so hard to explain some one who's not from here. Our foods are soo complex lol
I'm Iraqi and we call it Tanoor here so close its fascinating because we're really far apart yet the word is almost identical. Also on the Kurdish part of Iraq they call it nan.
I’m realizing that my “naan” recipe is really this stuff. And I love it. We have it at least once a week. I’ve also been learning various kinds of dal but it’s a work in progress
Exactly like we don’t eat naans every second day. Personally I do love that garlic and buttery naan but I don’t eat maida daily and there are various types rotis which are healthy too. I don’t even remember when was the last time I ate naan
I am gypsy and the first time I went to my Indian grandpa (not biological grandpa he just raised my father after my grandpa died) his sister made some of the best chapati 😗🤌 that I asked for the recipe straight away but every time I try to make it, it doesn't taste as good as hers she made it taste so magical she treated me like her own granddaughter so I guess that's why it tasted so good that I miss her, if I get the chance to meet her again and try her chapati again I think I would tear up 🥲
I would say, try making it every now and then and practice might help perfect the dish. Making rotis for the first time are not a successful attempt for majority, especially comparing with someone who cooks it almost regularly.
@@gabs_1169 you're welcome! 😇 All the best and best of luck! P.S. Making sure the roti gets puffed is an important part. You can refer YT videos to help u guide.
As a keralite a staple in my household is rice or chapatti........... For special occasions (or for breakfast) we make dosa, idly, appam, Kappa (tapioca), upmav, puttu............naan is purely from restaurants.
Thank you so much dear for making a short video about this... Actually I'm so tired watching other ppls videos eating indian foods... Bla.. Bla.. I can only see Naan, samosa, butter masala... And yeah Naan is gud... And as u said lot more things that are as gud as it
And for us Northeast Indians, we eat rice everyday instead of Roti. when I was a child, Roti and parathas were made in sundays, holidays or for our tiffins.
I’m not gonna lie I love putting cheese or Nutella in the chappti in the evening when there’s one left and no curry 😍 it just taste diffrent and amazing
I used to go to this Indian restaurant all the time, me and my family were regulars, and they had the clay oven to make naans close to the eating area so we got to watch the chefs make the naans and slap the dough against the side of it, they even offered us a close up look once and my god it was so hot, I still don’t know how they managed to do it xD
Binge watching all your videos rn as a tarot learner because the way you interpret each of the cards and seamlessly weave them into a meaningful reading is just chef’s kiss 💋 x
I got taught to make roti by my fathers gf (parents are divorced. He didn’t cheat with this one) who married and lived in India for some time. It’s amazing and so simple to make
All are forgetting we Kerala people's are also indians, our foods are entirely different than other states. We commonly eats rice and spicy curries. Our other food items we commonly eats appam, puttu, Kerala porotta, idli, dosa, idiyappam, uppumavu and our snacks are also different than other states. Porotta and beef curry is one of the favorite food for the many of the Kerala people❤
no ones forgetting anything..u want to point it out for nothing.. and probably not entirely different..bengali here ...we have rice as staple too..and spicy gravies.
Wtf no one's forgetting really annoyed me 😑 Rice is literally the staple food grain of India. Chapati/roti is only eaten in northern and northwestern states. The rest of India eats rice. I personally never eat roti, only rice and fish curry❤ Bengali uk!
Every region of India has a different staple diet because of many factors like temperature ,humidity, crops that grow there, etc. It's what makes Indian cuisine so unique and special. It's a blast of different flavors, and I love my country for its diversity. Once in my life, I want to tour all around India. Try It's different cuisine and see its beautiful scenery. ❤❤❤🇮🇳
Chapati is what my Indian friends always made, and there’s something else (batter that’s smoothed around on a flat griddle) that had green chilis in it. I forget the name
So I used to be married to a Delhi person and I was told that many Punjabi housing societies had a tandoor near the entrance (like us gujjus have gaanthiya places lol) and people often picked up naan on the way home from work. I cannot corroborate this story but that's what I learned.
