
Bihari Masoor Dal
Bihari masoor dal cooks red lentils thin and finishes them with a mustard oil tempering.
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Bihari masoor dal cooks red lentils thin and finishes them with a mustard oil tempering.

Nenua chana dal pairs sponge gourd with split Bengal gram so the water the gourd gives out thickens into the dal.

Bihari pedakiya is a Teej and Chhath pastry filled with roasted suji, dry coconut, powdered sugar and cardamom, then fried crisp.

Roasted gram shorba thickens a Bihari broth with roasted gram flour, finished with cumin and black salt.

Sarso machli is a Bihari fish curry in a sharp ground mustard gravy, cooked in mustard oil.

Thekua fries a stiff wheat and jaggery dough into hard biscuits, made for Chhath.

Bisi bele bath cooks rice, dal and vegetables together with a Karnataka spice blend into one thick pot.

Boiled egg and onion salad dresses quartered eggs with raw onion, chilli and mustard oil.

Karachi halwa sets cornflour with sugar into a chewy, translucent block studded with nuts.

Bombay masala toast layers spiced potato and vegetables between bread and presses it on a griddle.

Bread pakoda sandwiches spiced potato between bread, dips it in gram flour batter and fries it.

Bread upma tosses cubed bread through a tempering of onion and tomato.

Burnt garlic veg fried rice fries garlic until dark before anything else goes in.

Butter chicken is grilled marinated chicken folded into a tomato gravy finished with butter and cream.

Cabbage fried rice is a quick Indo-Chinese stir-fry of rice with shredded cabbage and carrot.

Cabbage pakoda fries shredded cabbage in gram flour batter into loose, crisp clusters.

Cabbage thoran is a dry Kerala stir-fry of shredded cabbage with fresh coconut and a mustard tempering.

Cafe Style Brownie Freakshake blends fudgy brownie, vanilla ice cream, milk, and chocolate syrup into a thick decorated shake.

Cheesy corn cigars roll corn and cheese in pastry sheets and fry them into thin sticks.

Cheesy corn palak melts cheese into a spinach and sweet corn base, a cafe dish rather than a traditional one.

Garlic butter rice tosses cooked rice through garlic softened in butter, a cafe dish rather than a traditional one.

Mushroom ghee roast cooks mushrooms in the Mangalorean ghee roast masala, sharp with tamarind and dried chilli.

Cafe Style Tiramisu Cold Coffee blends instant coffee, chilled milk, mascarpone, sugar syrup, and cocoa into a creamy dessert coffee.

Capsicum masala rice tosses cooked rice with peppers and a South Indian spice paste.

Caramel bread pudding is an Anglo-Indian steamed custard with bread, eggs, milk, vanilla and a glossy caramel top.

Carrot and cabbage kosambari tosses raw vegetables with soaked mung dal and a mustard tempering.

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is an eggless spiced cake with grated carrots, walnuts and tangy frosting.

Carrot peas pulao cooks rice with carrot and peas, mild enough for a lunchbox.

Champaran mutton handi seals goat meat in a clay pot with mustard oil and garlic and lets it cook in its own steam.

Chanar payesh is a Bengali paneer kheer with reduced milk, crumbled chhena, cardamom and pistachios.

Chana dal salad soaks the dal rather than cooking it, so it stays firm against the vegetables.

Cheese Aloo Lifafa Paratha is an envelope-folded wheat paratha filled with mashed potato, cheddar, coriander, and green chilli.

Cheese Burst Corn Paratha is a whole wheat paratha stuffed with sweet corn, mozzarella, coriander, chilli flakes, and oregano.

Cheese burst corn tikki hides a cheese centre in a corn and potato patty, so it pulls when broken.

Cheese Chilli Garlic Kulcha is a stuffed North Indian tawa bread filled with mozzarella, green chilli, garlic, and coriander.

Cheese corn balls bind corn with two cheeses and fry them so the centre pulls when broken.

Cheese Garlic Naan is a stovetop stuffed naan filled with mozzarella, topped with garlic and coriander, and brushed with butter.

Chettinad chicken curry is built on a dark roasted spice blend, hotter and more peppery than most South Indian curries.

Chettinad egg curry simmers boiled eggs in the dark roasted Chettinad spice blend.

Kozhi rasam is a peppery Chettinad chicken broth, thin enough to drink from the bowl.

Meen kuzhambu is a Chettinad fish curry, sharp with tamarind and cooked in sesame oil with shallots.

Chettinad mushroom biryani layers mushrooms under rice with the region's dark roasted spice blend.

Chettinad mushroom masala cooks mushrooms in freshly ground coconut and the region's dark roasted spices.

Pepper chicken masala leans on coarsely crushed black pepper, the Chettinad way rather than chilli heat.

Prawn biryani layers prawns under rice, cooked briefly so they do not toughen.

Chettinad prawn masala cooks prawns fast in the dark roasted Chettinad spice blend.

Chettinad soya chunks masala gives soy chunks the dark roasted Chettinad spice treatment.

Chettinad vengaya paruppu is a peppery pigeon pea dal with whole shallots and a fresh coconut-fennel paste.

Chhena poda bakes fresh chhena with sugar until the outside caramelises, an Odia sweet cooked slowly.

Chicken 65 fries marinated chicken and finishes it with curry leaves and chilli, a Chennai hotel dish.

Boti kebab marinates cubed chicken with raw papaya so it stays tender over direct heat.

Chicken ghee roast cooks chicken down in ghee with a sour, chilli-heavy Mangalorean masala.

Chicken keema dal cooks minced chicken into the dal so the two finish together.

Chicken Keema Paratha is a stuffed whole wheat flatbread filled with dry spiced chicken mince, onion, ginger-garlic, and coriander.

Chicken korma is a pale Awadhi curry, the chicken cooked in yoghurt and cashew paste with no tomato at all.

Lehsuni tikka marinates chicken in a heavy garlic paste, pale and pungent rather than red.

Chicken lollipop frenches the wing so the meat sits at one end, then fries and tosses it in sauce.

Chicken majestic fries strips of chicken and tosses them with green chilli and curry leaves.

Chicken manchow soup is the meat version of the Indo-Chinese favourite, topped with fried noodles.

Reshmi kebab uses cream and cheese in the marinade, which keeps the chicken pale and very soft.