Chapter 25
Spicy Riddles
1) Find out which spices are used in your house for cooking. Make a list and look at your friends’ lists too.
2) When your grandparents were young, which spices were used most in their kitchens? Find out from them and write here.
3) Name one spice which is put into both sweet and salty things.
4) Find out what is put into food to make it taste sour.
5) Find out whether any spices are grown in your area. Write their names here.
6) Boiled potatoes, enough for everybody in the class.
7) Roasted cumin seeds (zeera), black salt, and garam masala, if it is possible.
8) Fresh coriander leaves.
9) Did you enjoy the potato chaat?
10) Just imagine, if there were no spices to make the potato chaat, how would it taste?
11) Try to learn and make a different kind of chaat and enjoy it with all your friends in class.
12) How do spice-less and very spicy things feel on your tongue?
13) When your grandparents were young, which spices were used most in their kitchens? Find out from them and write here.
14) Name one spice which is put into both sweet and salty things.
15) Find out what is put into food to make it taste sour.