Traditional Utensils: The Classic Touch of Traditional Kitchens.
Do you want to get the essence of Mom’s kitchen in your house? If your answer is yes then making your kitchen special with the touches of traditional utensils. You can get the Proudly Bhartiya feeling by using these utensils.
Why are we follow the foreign culture in our daily life whether we have lots of unique items to make our dishes special? Don’t let them faded away.
- Mortar-Pestle or Hamam- data:
The Mortar-Pestle helps you to pound garlic, ginger, chilly, black pepper, cardamom, or corns in pure Indian style. It is a bowl-shaped vessel pot in which spices or dried condiments are pounded by a hard item called Pestle or Data. Earlier days, this was made of stone but now you can get wooden and stainless-steel finish.
- Sil Batta:
Sil Batta is another traditional utensil which commonly found in the Indian kitchen in earlier days. To prepare wet pastes or chutneys with traditional spices Sil Batta is the best one. Sil is a thick and flat stone slab with rough surface and batta is a special type of chiseled cylindrical stone. This set of utensils helps you to make a smooth paste of ginger, garlic, chilies, spinach, different types of spices, and more others.
- Churner or Ghotni:
Ghotni or Churner is one of the most ancient kitchen utensils which is still used in maximum houses. Originally it is made with wood. A circular base with gaps and a long handle allows air to made fuzzy frothy lassi, buttermilk, milkshake, and more beverages. Churner comes with different sizes for various uses. Now, this exclusive quality traditional utensils are also found in the stainless-steel version.
- Coconut Scrapper:
Do you have any idea what Coconut scrapper is? It is a special type of kitchen appliance mostly found in the entire south and eastern regions of India. This exciting contraption grater helps you to grate the inside portion of coconuts without struggling for its shell. Its circular blade helps to proceed with the grating procedure. Mainly iron or wooden based and iron blades are found in this traditional utensil.
- Clay Water Pot:
Do you want to get a glass of naturally cool water on a hot summer day? Clay Water Pot or Matka is the best traditional water-cooling utensil which helps you to get the flavor of clay. These have natural refrigerants that keep the water cool even at a high temperature. Ghara or Matka are unique types of clay pots especially for storing water in a hot atmosphere. Unfortunately, we are over-influenced by a western culture so our traditional clay water pots are almost banished from the high-tech society.
- Kadai:
Kadai is a popular traditional utensil that presents from the time of Vedic Civilization. This unique appliance is a circular, thick, and deep cooking pot for making a variety of different classic dishes. From deep fry to meat curry, it can easily make several popular items. In earlier days, Kadai was made from cast iron. However, now you will find a variety of Kadai made with stainless steel, cast metal, and even clay.
- Handi:
Handi, one of the most famous traditional utensils in which steel exists in our kitchen. It is a narrow-mouthed kitchen utensil that has a thick and broad base. It is the oldest cooking pot in the Indian subcontinent. On the old days, handi was made with clay. But now it is found in stainless steel, Teflon coating material, copper, brass, and more others finishing. This is a scientifically designed utensil that keeps the aroma of the spices and flavors of vegetables in the food. For slow cooking, it is ideal.
In Summary
Now it is easy to make a proper set-up for your kitchen with lots of traditional utensils. Here we have discussed a few of them. If you have a keen interest to prepare traditional dishes with the help of traditional utensils then these become your first preference to get the essence of classical taste. These utensils are close to the core of Indian culture and give us a proud feeling of using Made in India goods. Proudly Bhartiya, isn’t it?
