IELTS Speaking Part 2: IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card

Describe a traditional meal that you prepare in your country on special occasions

: You should say

When you eat that meal
How you prepare it
What ingredients are used to prepare it
and explain why you enjoy it

: Sample Answer

Tandoori chicken with paratha is a traditional mean that we prepare in our country on many different occasions. This is a famous meal in our country and people can have them from some restaurants but they prepare this meal during festivals at home

Tandoori chicken is originally Punjabi dish that we adopted and this dish consists of roasted chicken with spices, testing salt and yogurt. This meal is usually prepared in a cylindrical clay oven, a tandoor, in which this dish is usually prepared. The city people usually buy this special oven which is made of steel or metal but in a village, people make the oven with mud and wood

The paratha is a special kind of baked bread. Usually, the paratha is made from wheat flat bread and then dough with cooking oil or ghee. We have this meal almost in all occasions. Not necessarily this is the only meal we prepare in our festivals but this is a very common meal along with other traditional meals. People love to have this meal in festivals and it seems like they usually assume that this is something they must prepare for the guests. In the different parts of the country, this meal gets some other variation in terms of cooking process, presentation and ingredients, but they are almost same in all part and the custom of making it in a festival is quite common

From my childhood, I have always found this meal delicious and very common during festivals. So psychologically and in terms of its great taste, I love to eat this meal. Our people have a good hand on preparing delicious meals and as a traditional meal, we enjoy it very much. For me, I don’t have the chance to eat this meal always as I live in a city far away from our hometown. So during the festival when I stay at my hometown, I really enjoy a known meal which is delicious and traditional to us