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.

Where to go in Goa

Goa is mainly visited by tourists in winter and summer season. In the winter time, Goa experiences pleasant climate and is thus mainly attracts tourists from abroad mainly Europe. In the summertime, Goa has tourists from across India. Often known as the former Portuguese enclave, Goa is well known among the tourists for its extensive beaches, churches and temples. The Bom Jesus cathedral is one of the famous attractions of Goa. Visitors also make visit to another attraction Fort Aguada.

Goa - A Tourist Paradise of India

Goa is well-said the “Tourist Paradise” of India. It lies on the Indian western coast and is famous for its churches, old houses and more significantly its beaches. According to the Hindu mythology, it is believed that Lord Parshuram and incarnation of Lord Vishnu created the beautiful city of Goa. If we look into the history of this Indian state, Goa has been ruled by various dynasties- Rashtrakutas, Kadambas, Silaharas, Chalukyas, Brahmani Muslims and by Portuguese, the traces of which can be seen in its architecture and culture.

Panaji or Panjim is the capital of the state and other important towns of Goa are Vasco, Margao, Mapusa and Ponda. While staying in Goa, you can have the pleasure to enjoy some delicious seafood like prawns, mackerels, sardines, crabs and lobsters. However, the cuisine has the influence of the Portuguese.

The main time to visit Goa is in between late September and early March. International as well as domestic tourists flock the city during this time only. Goa becomes very pleasant to visit during this time. Even during the monsoons Goa becomes natural beautiful.