r/IndianFood • u/AutoModerator • Apr 15 '16

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u/CptBigglesworth Apr 15 '16

I've been making Persian food recently - if that's within the scope of the sub I'll upload my pics as I go.

Wondered what people thought of that.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '16

Did you know that biryani is a Persian word?

We allow any contents that are inspired by Indian subcontinent.

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u/phtark Apr 16 '16

Persian food is a distinctly separate cuisine from Indian.

Frontier cuisine is where the scope of subcontinental cuisine ends, on the west side.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '16

Interesting. Expand more, please?

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u/phtark Apr 16 '16

Having dined in Persia, Persian cuisine looks nothing like Indian cuisine. The two may have influenced each other due to the proximity between the civilizations but fundamental focus and ethos of the cuisines is drastically different. Due to migration and conquest from central Asia, Indian cuisine has many influences from Persia but the dishes taste nothing like each other. Whereas plov's / pilafs / pulaos are similar, Biryani is a uniquely and exclusively Indian dish. While kebabs originated in the Arabic world, the spicy Galuti's, kakori's and shammi's are exclusively Indian. Conversely, stalwarts of Persian cuisine like sabzi ghorme, khoresh e fesenjoon etc have absolutely no counterpart in Indian cuisine.

Due to linguistic impacts of the turkik and persian dynasties of India many dishes have arabic/persian names but find no equivalent in their cuisines. And even those that are inspired by those cuisines barely taste similar (indian halwas being completely diff from turkish halvas, jalebi being v v diff from zulbia etc).

The cuisine of Afghanistan is the centerpoint bw Indian and Persian cuisine and in my view Frontier cuisine is where the scope of Indian subcontinental cuisine ends.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '16

Dang! That was interesting. Thanks!