“Rajasthan” name is enough to give you the feel of royalty and the history it has. The place has excellent monuments with unheard ancient tales and the delicacies used to decorate the royal food plated for great kings around the street and houses.
At each point, you can find your nostrils enjoying the aroma of one of their local dishes. Here you can find the local peoples who are willing to give you a tour around the city and makes you taste their unique and most famous dishes and the local foods which are worth trying once.
The harsh weather and limited natural resources gave birth to these mouth-watering dishes with unique combinations of ingredients, which have been their saviour in tough times.
These dishes are not only well known for their taste but also for the story they have behind them. How they were invented helps people survive in this place that has seen and experienced the worst scenarios and resources.
So let’s look at a few fantastic tourist spots of Rajasthan with their most famous delicacy.
Different tourist spots with their delicacies.
- Jaipur– It’s the capital of Rajasthan and the largest city of Rajasthan. A place where a royal family once walked every corner and still date their monuments are standing with ride depicting their tale and keeping them alive among the local people and tourists.
A city which blushes with colours that gave it the title of “Pink city”. Here you can find one of the most ancient and beautiful forts and monuments like Hawa Mahal, Amer Fort, City Palace, Jantar Mantar, Jaigarh fort, Nahargarh fort, Albert hall, Jal Mahal and Birla Temple.
The delicacies you can try here and the best you find here are as follows.
- Dal Bati Churma- This delicacy is known as the national food of Rajasthan. It’s one of the most loved dishes. This is a three-in-one delicacy with deep-fried bati, sweet and sour churma with spicy flavour.
- Dil Khushal- This sweet dish is known by various names like ‘Besan ki Barfi’, ‘Mohanthaal’, and ‘Dal Badam Chakki’. This sweet dish combines almond, ghee, mogar, mawa and sugar, a grainy sweet dish.
- Rajasthan Kadhi- It’s one of the most popular side dishes, mainly served along with phulka in the daily household. It’s a spicy yoghurt curry mostly cooked during winters.
- Aam ki launji- This is pickle-type chutney of raw mangoes with various Indian spices. Its tantalising aroma and mouthwatering taste make it a perfect side sweet dish to have along with your food.
- Pyaz kachori- This type of fried kachori in Rajasthan with a spicy filling of Onion as the majority. A popular snack dish famous among the kids and youth. It’s a crunchy delight made with whole grain flour and onion filling.
- Ghevar- It’s the most famous disc-shaped sweet dish around the country especially made in Jaipur. It’s made using ghee, sugar, dry fruits and flour. A dish much more popular during festivals like Teej and Raksha Bandhan.
- Jaisalmer– The heart of the Thar desert and known as “The Golden City”. This place is worth visiting and memorable for its monuments of yellow sandstone with ancient sculptures and craved design, a place to connect and feel the aura of history.
This place also has a few delicacies to offer to its visitors like:-
- Laal Maas- is one of their unique non-vegetarian dishes. It was made using wild boar and deer, but now it’s cooked with mutton. It got its name from its appearance, and the word ‘laal’ depicts this dish’s eye-catching red, promising a great taste.
- Gatte ki sabzi- Also known as Sahi Gatte or Govind Gatte. This is one of the main dishes of besan dumplings filled with nuts and deep fried served with spicy gravy. You can enjoy this thick gravy dish with rice and roti.
- Jodhpur– A place famous for handicrafts, forts, and temples. This place is also the princely state or the Blue city. The Mehrangarhgarh fort of Jodhpur is a worthy tourist attraction. It’s also the centre of most educational institutes of Rajasthan.
Here you can have a taste of some weird combinations of dishes that are tasty once tasted.
Gulab jamun ki sabzi- In this weird combination of a spicy dish. The small dumplings are the Gulab jamun; a sweet dish dipped in sugary syrup. But in this sabzi, it’s used as dried without any sugary taste in a flavorful thick curry. It’s cooked using basic masalas, coriander and Garam Masala.
Most loved dish among the people of Jodhpur and a terrific and exciting food dish to try among the tourists.
So, these are the few most loveable dishes and tourist spots of our historical state, “Rajasthan”. A state is known for its beautiful and enchanting tourist spots, which can mesmerise its visitors with their unique and memorable beauty.
A state where its delicacies even tell the story of this place with its flavour and combinations.
