#1 World Food: Pakora from 🇮🇳India
🆕 In this series of posts Afandi English brings you the best food this world has to offer. Knowing the world’s famous dishes is not only minimum knowledge of the world, of course you can also imagine what it might taste like or even try to cook it at home.
▶️ Pakora is ...
... made of:
Vegetables (potatoes, onions, aubergines, etc.) in a crispy (=pleasantly hard outside, causing a noise when chewing) chickpea (=no’xot) coating (=outside layer)
... eaten with:
Ketchup, chili sauce or any other sauce
Healthy or not? 🔴
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
🆕 In this series of posts Afandi English brings you the best food this world has to offer. Knowing the world’s famous dishes is not only minimum knowledge of the world, of course you can also imagine what it might taste like or even try to cook it at home.
▶️ Pakora is ...
... made of:
Vegetables (potatoes, onions, aubergines, etc.) in a crispy (=pleasantly hard outside, causing a noise when chewing) chickpea (=no’xot) coating (=outside layer)
... eaten with:
Ketchup, chili sauce or any other sauce
Healthy or not? 🔴
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
#2 World Food: Tacos from 🇲🇽Mexico
🆕 In this series of posts Afandi English brings you the best food this world has to offer. Knowing the world’s famous dishes is not only minimum knowledge of the world, of course you can also imagine what it might taste like or even try to cook it at home.
▶️ Tacos are ...
... made with:
Meat and/or vegetables of any kind (typically beef or chicken, beans, tomatoes, onions, lettuce) in a flat bread made from corn or wheat flour.
... eaten with:
Salsa (the Spanish word for ‘sauce’) made of tomatoes, guacamole (a green avocado sauce) and cheese, either grated (=cut into stripes) or as sauce.
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🟡
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
🆕 In this series of posts Afandi English brings you the best food this world has to offer. Knowing the world’s famous dishes is not only minimum knowledge of the world, of course you can also imagine what it might taste like or even try to cook it at home.
▶️ Tacos are ...
... made with:
Meat and/or vegetables of any kind (typically beef or chicken, beans, tomatoes, onions, lettuce) in a flat bread made from corn or wheat flour.
... eaten with:
Salsa (the Spanish word for ‘sauce’) made of tomatoes, guacamole (a green avocado sauce) and cheese, either grated (=cut into stripes) or as sauce.
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🟡
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
#3 World Food: Sushi from 🇯🇵Japan
🆕 In this series of posts Afandi English brings you the best food this world has to offer. Knowing the world’s famous dishes is not only minimum knowledge of the world, of course you can also imagine what it might taste like or even try to cook it at home.
▶️ Sushi is …:
... made with:
Special sushi rice that sticks together, different types of raw fish, shrimps and/or fish eggs and sheets of seaweed (=grass that grows in the sea). Sometimes vegetables, avocado or square-cut steamed egg are added.
... eaten with:
Soya sauce, wasabi (=Japanese green mustard), preserved (=not fresh but made to keep for a long time) sliced ginger and sometimes mayonnaise.
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🔴
Cheap enough? 🔴
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
🆕 In this series of posts Afandi English brings you the best food this world has to offer. Knowing the world’s famous dishes is not only minimum knowledge of the world, of course you can also imagine what it might taste like or even try to cook it at home.
▶️ Sushi is …:
... made with:
Special sushi rice that sticks together, different types of raw fish, shrimps and/or fish eggs and sheets of seaweed (=grass that grows in the sea). Sometimes vegetables, avocado or square-cut steamed egg are added.
... eaten with:
Soya sauce, wasabi (=Japanese green mustard), preserved (=not fresh but made to keep for a long time) sliced ginger and sometimes mayonnaise.
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🔴
Cheap enough? 🔴
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
#4 World Food: Fish & Chips from the 🇬🇧UK
▶️ Fish & Chips is …
... made with:
Deep-fried (=fried in a lot of oil) cod (=a type of fish) in a batter (=a thin dough to cover the fish with before frying) and chips – deep-fried potato sticks, or what Americans call “French fries”. Chips in Britain are much thicker than American French fries.
... eaten with:
Salt and malt vinegar (=brownish vinegar made from dried grains), ketchup or “chip shop curry sauce”, a warm thick sauce that tastes Indian but isn’t.
Healthy or not? 🔴
Easy to make? 🟡
Cheap enough? 🟡
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
▶️ Fish & Chips is …
... made with:
Deep-fried (=fried in a lot of oil) cod (=a type of fish) in a batter (=a thin dough to cover the fish with before frying) and chips – deep-fried potato sticks, or what Americans call “French fries”. Chips in Britain are much thicker than American French fries.
... eaten with:
Salt and malt vinegar (=brownish vinegar made from dried grains), ketchup or “chip shop curry sauce”, a warm thick sauce that tastes Indian but isn’t.
Healthy or not? 🔴
Easy to make? 🟡
Cheap enough? 🟡
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
#5 World Food: Nasi Goreng from 🇮🇩Indonesia
▶️ Nasi Goreng is …
... made with:
Rice and any vegetables. Can be with or without any kind of meat or prawns (=a type of sea food, ‘shrimps’ in American English). Plenty of oil and soya sauce are used. “Nasi” means “rice” and “goreng” means “fried”, so we’re basically talking about fried rice here!
... eaten with:
Nasi Goreng is often served with fried eggs. Indonesians also like prawn crackers (=thick chips) on the side and “Sambal”, a spicy chili sauce.
Healthy or not? 🟡
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
▶️ Nasi Goreng is …
... made with:
Rice and any vegetables. Can be with or without any kind of meat or prawns (=a type of sea food, ‘shrimps’ in American English). Plenty of oil and soya sauce are used. “Nasi” means “rice” and “goreng” means “fried”, so we’re basically talking about fried rice here!
... eaten with:
Nasi Goreng is often served with fried eggs. Indonesians also like prawn crackers (=thick chips) on the side and “Sambal”, a spicy chili sauce.
Healthy or not? 🟡
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
#6 World Food: Ratatouille from 🇫🇷France
▶️ Ratatouille is …
... made with:
Fresh vegetables like tomatoes, courgette (=a vegetable similar to cucumbers but for cooking), aubergine (British English; Americans say “eggplant”), peppers, onions and garlic. The vegetables are stewed (=cooked slowly) with Mediterranean (=from the countries surrounding the sea between Europe and Africa) herbs (=small aromatic green plants) like basil, thyme, rosemary and oregano.
... eaten with:
Any staples (=basic foods), such as bread, rice or pasta. Or as a side dish to meat.
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟡
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
▶️ Ratatouille is …
... made with:
Fresh vegetables like tomatoes, courgette (=a vegetable similar to cucumbers but for cooking), aubergine (British English; Americans say “eggplant”), peppers, onions and garlic. The vegetables are stewed (=cooked slowly) with Mediterranean (=from the countries surrounding the sea between Europe and Africa) herbs (=small aromatic green plants) like basil, thyme, rosemary and oregano.
... eaten with:
Any staples (=basic foods), such as bread, rice or pasta. Or as a side dish to meat.
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟡
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
#7 World Food: Fufu from 🌍West Africa
▶️ Fufu is …
... made with:
Traditionally cassava (=a tropical root vegetable) flour but alternatively semolina (=not fine but coarse wheat flour) or corn flour can also be used. It is boiled and formed into a big round shape, usually one for one person’s meal.
... eaten with:
Different soups as well as meat, fish and vegetable stews (=a semi-soupy dish that is cooked for a long time).
Fufu is traditionally eaten by hand.
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🔴
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
▶️ Fufu is …
... made with:
Traditionally cassava (=a tropical root vegetable) flour but alternatively semolina (=not fine but coarse wheat flour) or corn flour can also be used. It is boiled and formed into a big round shape, usually one for one person’s meal.
... eaten with:
Different soups as well as meat, fish and vegetable stews (=a semi-soupy dish that is cooked for a long time).
Fufu is traditionally eaten by hand.
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🔴
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
#8 World Food: Rösti from 🇨🇭Switzerland
▶️ Rösti is …
... made with:
Grated (=cut into thin stripes) potatoes either raw or half-cooked are pressed into a frying pan like a pancake and fried thoroughly (=carefully, through and through) in butter from both sides. The potatoes should get brown and slightly crispy (=hard but pleasant to eat).
... eaten with:
While it can be eaten as a main dish or a side dish there are many things you can add to the basic recipe, like onions, eggs, cheese, sausage or greens (=green herbs or leafy vegetable).
Rösti is the national dish of Switzerland but it also divides the country because it is a dish of German-speaking Switzerland, not so much of the French and Italian-speaking parts.
Healthy or not? 🟡
Easy to make? 🟡
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
▶️ Rösti is …
... made with:
Grated (=cut into thin stripes) potatoes either raw or half-cooked are pressed into a frying pan like a pancake and fried thoroughly (=carefully, through and through) in butter from both sides. The potatoes should get brown and slightly crispy (=hard but pleasant to eat).
... eaten with:
While it can be eaten as a main dish or a side dish there are many things you can add to the basic recipe, like onions, eggs, cheese, sausage or greens (=green herbs or leafy vegetable).
Rösti is the national dish of Switzerland but it also divides the country because it is a dish of German-speaking Switzerland, not so much of the French and Italian-speaking parts.
Healthy or not? 🟡
Easy to make? 🟡
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
#9 World Food: Hotpot from 🇨🇳China
▶️ Hotpot is …
... made with:
A spicy soup and plenty of vegetables, meat, noodles, tofu (=cheese-like thing made from beans), dumplings (=meat-filled pastry), mushrooms, etc.
... eaten with:
People dip the stuff from the pot in a sauce that they can mix by themselves. This can be soya sauce (=a salty dark brown sauce made from beans), vinegar, sesame sauce, herbs, garlic, chili and many more.
The interesting part is that the soup boils constantly and people add in whatever they feel like eating. It’s a popular dish for the cold season. Of course this food is eaten with chopsticks (=sticks that East Asians use for eating).
Healthy or not? 🟡
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟡
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
▶️ Hotpot is …
... made with:
A spicy soup and plenty of vegetables, meat, noodles, tofu (=cheese-like thing made from beans), dumplings (=meat-filled pastry), mushrooms, etc.
... eaten with:
People dip the stuff from the pot in a sauce that they can mix by themselves. This can be soya sauce (=a salty dark brown sauce made from beans), vinegar, sesame sauce, herbs, garlic, chili and many more.
The interesting part is that the soup boils constantly and people add in whatever they feel like eating. It’s a popular dish for the cold season. Of course this food is eaten with chopsticks (=sticks that East Asians use for eating).
Healthy or not? 🟡
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟡
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
#10 World Food: 🇪🇬🇱🇧🇸🇾 Falafel
▶️ Falafel is a common type of street food in the Middle East. You can also find it in Europe and North America where there are Arab eateries (=places to eat) and food vendors (=sb who sells sth, esp. on the street). It is …
... made with:
Chickpeas (=a kind of bean) or beans formed into small balls that are deep-fried (=fried in a lot of oil).
... eaten with:
Hummus, a sauce made from chickpeas, or a yoghurt sauce and often also vegetables in a flat bread, very much like a doner kebab.
Healthy or not? 🟡
Easy to make? 🔴
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
▶️ Falafel is a common type of street food in the Middle East. You can also find it in Europe and North America where there are Arab eateries (=places to eat) and food vendors (=sb who sells sth, esp. on the street). It is …
... made with:
Chickpeas (=a kind of bean) or beans formed into small balls that are deep-fried (=fried in a lot of oil).
... eaten with:
Hummus, a sauce made from chickpeas, or a yoghurt sauce and often also vegetables in a flat bread, very much like a doner kebab.
Healthy or not? 🟡
Easy to make? 🔴
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food