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India is a vast country and Indian cuisine includes a vast variety of regional and traditional cuisines. As you travel every 100 kilometers, you will encounter a new culture which has altogether a new cuisine. Though the ingredients may remain the same, a unique combination of all the techniques and old traditional methods of cooking with an incorporation of the most enchanted spices makes every cuisine unique. But as time has flown, the actual feel of Indian cuisine is evaporating from India itself.

There are several factors that contributed towards dying of dishes from Indian cuisine. As the history states that it was a tradition among many families that the mother used to pass on their family recipes to their daughters and so on. But as girl started getting educated and doing a job, their ties with the kitchen started reducing. As a result of which many recipes were not passed over to the next generation. Another important factor was the shortage of time. As people started to spend more time at their workplace, they would hardly get time to cook at home. Most of the traditional recipes need a lot of time to prepare the meal from scratch, it was quite difficult for the working couple to invest more time in cooking. Over a period, people started to dine out or opt for ready-made food. This concept led to a rise in restaurants and stores in the market. Somewhere it became difficult to find the ingredients of the traditional dishes in the market. This eventually led to the declining popularity of traditional dishes. There are many more reasons which contribute towards losing of relevance of the dishes from the menu of common man.

I believe that food is like oxygen to every human being. But it is only a matter of time when the Indian cuisine will be lost due to rapidly changing social and economic conditions of India. As budding chefs we owe to the generations coming in to bring back the Lost Recipes of India. It can be done by incorporating various techniques, methods and not forgetting the authentic traditional recipes. This is an attempt to recreate some of the lost dishes from Indian cuisine and give them a touch of modernity without impacting the essence of their originality. This page will not only give you the recipes but also help you gain more information about the dish. If you have come across any such dish then please do write to me in the comment section and I will surely work on it giving you the necessary credits.

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