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Vinegar (Sirka)

Made from wine, vinegar is commonly used cuisine. However, in India vinegar is used to give the special acid flavor that characterizes oriental cuisine.

Vinegar (Sirka) is also used to ground spices, helping to release their delicate flavors. Sirka is also used is a substitute of yogurt and other acid preparations used as marinade.

Prepared as "wet masala", vinegar is used in exchange with oil, and as ingredient of dishes such as:

• Masala Shalgam
• Fish with Walnut
• Mutton Mirch
• Egg Pickles
• Chicken Manchurian
• Fish with Currants
• Honey Garlic Chicken
• Mutta Sirka (Rice and Egg Poories)

As a sour liquid, vinegar is technically the result of alcohol oxidations, whether from red wine, white wine, grape fruit, beer or cider. Apart of being used as cooking condiment. Vinegar is also a food preservative and flavoring.

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