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SALT, SPICE, IT’S DELICIOUSLY NICE…

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… Says anyone who has tasted Goan cuisine. With treasured recipes of generations that have been seasoned with time, the food of India’s sunshine state is a veritable melting pot of cultures. It is simmered with Konkan Hindu tastes, spiced with the strong elements of Catholic cooking, and tempered with distinctive colonial Portuguese influences. Taking holiday homes in Goa will give you ample opportunities to sample the local cuisine. If you are brave enough to face its tangy spiciness, you must-try is the ambot tik, Goa’s famed fish curry. Shark or catfish is cooked in distinctive sweet-spicy pungent gravy, and teamed with steamed rice. The natural sour of tamarind is blended into the red-hot spice quotient of dried red chillies and crushed peppercorns. If meat is your thing, try the xacuti, inspired from the Portuguese ‘chakuti.’ Chicken, pork or lamb is added to curry of white poppy seeds, grated coconut, large red chillies and a complex spice mix. High on seafood flavour