GOA CUISINE

If you are a person who loves satisfying the demands of your taste buds, then Goan cuisine in India will offer you immense satisfaction.

Name any kind of food and you have it-be it Chinese, Thai, Italian, Mughalai, South Indian, Mexican, Portuguese, Korean, Vietnamese and of course our own Goan…restaurants in Goa, India, will have them ready for you. This way, you won't be missing out on your traditional food, no matter what nationality you belong to. But once in this Indian state of Goa, it would be a good idea to relish the traditional cuisine of Goa, India.

Eating out in Goa, India, can be a special experience. Goa is lined up with numerous restaurants offering Goan food or any other food that you want and these Goan restaurants are usually situated by the beach, giving you a unique recipe of the setting sun blended with delicious sea-food and thirst-quenching Feni.

If you would like to experience exotic Goan delicacies, then you should be in India and especially in Goa between November and May because it is during this time that the Goan restaurants churn up their own recipe.

South Goa has five star resorts to its credit but if you are looking for Goan delicacies at reasonable rates, then North Goa is undoubtedly the place to be.

TREAT FOR NON-VEGETARIANS IN GOA
Let us begin our culinary journey from the traditional Goan snack, Pao com Chouricos (fried spicy Goan sausages, sautéed with onions, served in a bread roll) or Iscas de Galinha (fried chicken liver). Wash the spice down with an almost bland Portuguese potato broth with diced greens, called Caldo verde. In true Portuguese-Goan tradition, many of the delicacies on the menu are various types of meat soaked in different spices for at least a day or two before being cooked with a generous dose of homemade spices. Or you could try the Galhina Piri-Piri, which are chicken pieces marinated in a mild mixture of piri-piri and Goan herbs, before being fried. As legend goes the Goa cuisine is responsible for introducing that quintessential Portuguese delicacy Chicken Cafreal (chicken marinated in a mildly spiced green coconut masala and fried) to the people world over. Another mouth-watering specialty of Goa is Pork Vindaloo (Pork cooked in a spicy, oily masala gravy). The Goa cuisine promises that if you taste their Goan pork vindaloo once, then any other preparation of pork is not going to appeal to you. Why not check out that promise?

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