Himachal Pradesh is one of the North Indian states whose cuisines represent a variety of vegetarian delicacies. The Himachali people make a liberal use of green and leafy vegetables, fruits, lentils, and breads made up of different kinds of flours (makki ki roti, maida parantha, wheat roti, missi roti, bajre ki roti ). Although there are many non-vegetarian cuisines also much liked and consumed by the Himachali people. Most of the cuisines and the methods of preparing those delicacies of Himachal are found to be quite similar as the methods applied in the other states of North India. Lentils are very much relished and liked by the people of Himachal Pradesh among which the Urad ki Daal, is much famous and a special kind of delicacy is prepared by it known as Sepu Bedi, by using the urad daal as the main ingredient and by adding black pepper, coriander, cinanamon, turmeric and fenugreek. Khatta Kaddu is one of the most popular cuisine in Himachal, this is prepared from the vegetable Pumpkin by adding a sour flavor to it. few other vegetarian cuisines loved and highly consumed by the Himachalo people are Kachalu kaa Salan, Sidhhu Ghee, Malpuda and Bath ki Kheer. In non vegetarian dishes; Chha Meat is the most liked delicacy that is prepared from fresh mutton and by adding lots of spices and herbs, cloves, daalchini and mustard oil. Daalchini is specially added to the dish to make the flavor truly exotic. Chicken Anaradana is also one of the famous non-veg delicacies of Himachal Pradesh.
