The seafood in Goa

Goa has a wide variety of food to enjoy and it ranges from prawns to sausages, chicken to beef, and numerous vegetarian dishes. In Goa, tourists can enjoy several culinary delicacies in restaurants like the prawn balchão and sorpotel which have become popular around the world. Goan food is simple but perhaps chili hot, spicy, and pungent. The items served usually feature rice, fish, and coconut in abundance.

The Goan Hindu cuisine uses less spice, less or no use of onion and garlic and involves more use of vegetables, lentils, pumpkins, gourds, bamboo shoots, roots etc. Goan Hindu cuisine is less oily and uses coconut oil for cooking.

Goa is known for seafood such as prawns, lobsters, crabs, pomfrets, clams, ladyfish, mussels, and oysters and make up as the main ingredients of variety of curries, fries, soups and pickles. Besides fresh seafood, dried and salted fish dishes are also more common in Goa.