Kanpur, the industrial city of Uttar Pradesh, is known for its glorious past and rich culture. Apart from its cultural heritage, it is also famous for its delicious and unique cuisine.
The local cuisine of Kanpur is a blend of North Indian, Mughlai and Awadhi styles of cooking. It is characterized by the use of fresh spices and ingredients like chillies, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and garlic.
Kanpur is widely known for its meat dishes like kababs, biryani and korma. The most popular kabab dish from Kanpur is the ‘Tundey Kabab’, which is made from minced buffalo meat marinated with various spices and herbs.
It is then deep-fried in clarified butter (ghee) until it turns golden brown in color. Biryani prepared in Kanpur has a distinct taste due to the use of special spices like cardamom and saffron. Korma is a rich gravy dish that uses yogurt or cream as its base along with various aromatic spices like cardamom powder and garam masala.
Aside from these scrumptious dishes, there are numerous other delicacies that make Kanpur famous for food. One such popular item is ‘Gol Gappe’, which are small hollow puri balls filled with potatoes, chickpeas or sprouts along with sweet tamarind chutney or spiced water inside them.
Another delicacy that has made Kanpur popular for food is ‘Chaat’. This includes a wide variety of snacks such as pani puri (gol gappa), samosa chaat etc., which are topped with sweet tamarind chutney and sour yogurt along with other condiments like cumin powder and chaat masala powder.
Apart from these snacks, there are many sweet dishes that originated in Kanpur such as ‘Jalebi’ which consists of deep-fried batter soaked in sugar syrup; ‘Gulab Jamun’ which are deep-fried milk dumplings soaked in rose flavored syrup; ‘Barfi’ which consists of thickened milk cooked with sugar and flavored either with nuts or dried fruits; ‘Rasmalai’ which consists of cheese dumplings soaked in thickened milk flavored with cardamom; and ‘Balushahi’, which are fried doughnuts soaked in syrup made out of sugar and clarified butter (ghee).
Kanpur’s food culture has evolved over the years due to influences from different regions such as Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana etc., but still retains its unique character owing to the local flavors used in each dish prepared here. This city has something to offer everyone who loves to savor delicious food!
Conclusion:
Kanpur is famous for its traditional cuisine that blends North Indian, Mughlai and Awadhi styles of cooking into one scrumptious meal! Its local flavors include an array of meat dishes such as kababs biryani & korma along with delicious snacks like gol gappe & chaat plus an array of sweets like jalebi & gulab jamun among others that make this city so popular for food!