Wednesday 12 October 2011

Indian Wedding Food

Indian weddings are famous for their extravagance and lavish celebration involving multi-cuisine buffets and thousands of guests. Apart from the lavish decor, Indian weddings are known for their scrumptious food. In India, food forms is of great importance and is integral part of every wedding with a grand menu, since it is an important event of a person’s life.

No Indian wedding is complete without a feast to treat the guests. To begin with, a caterer is chosen that will best suit the host’s taste and choice. Indian weddings comprise of a surprisingly large menu. An apparent feature of the Indian weddings that the food is served in buffet style. 
Firstly, Appetizers are served. There is a numerous variety, of both vegetarian and non-vegetarian canapé. Drinks are served simultaneously.
They may consist of traditional Indian drinks such as chai and lassi, as well as the common soft drinks, cocktails, mock tails and wine and most importantly, Champagne.

Followed by the Appetizers, are the main meals. The buffet is usually replaced with a broad range of traditional Indian foods, some even made on venue to add a fresh, sizzling flavor. Main meals also include vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes that range from the famously known, such as butter chicken and naan to rare ones that are added to spice up the menu. Salads come in such variety as well, from Indian style to western.
Finally, come the desserts, which are in themselves such a range, filled with gourmet Indian dishes and basic western style plain ice-cream. No Indian wedding is complete with out traditional Indian sweets, which are served throughout the entire celebration.