
Chicken Tikka (Dry)
Chicken tikka marinates boneless chicken in spiced yoghurt and chars it, served dry with onion and lemon.
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Chicken tikka marinates boneless chicken in spiced yoghurt and chars it, served dry with onion and lemon.

Chicken tikka masala pairs charred marinated chicken with a creamy spiced tomato gravy.

Chicken tikka salad puts charred marinated chicken over raw vegetables.

Chicken Tikka Stuffed Naan is a Punjabi tawa naan filled with chopped marinated chicken, spices, and butter.

Chilli cheese toast melts cheese and green chilli onto bread under a grill.

Chilli chicken, dry, fries battered chicken and tosses it with peppers in a hot Indo-Chinese sauce.

Chilli mushroom batters mushrooms and tosses them in a dry Indo-Chinese sauce.

Chilli paneer, dry, fries battered paneer and tosses it with peppers and green chilli.

Chur chur naan is crushed by hand straight off the griddle so the layers separate and soak up ghee.

Classic aamras is a Gujarati and Maharashtrian mango dessert blended with cardamom and a little dry ginger.

Aloo matar is the everyday potato and pea curry, cooked in a thin onion and tomato gravy.

Classic Aloo Paratha is a Punjabi whole wheat flatbread stuffed with spiced mashed potato and roasted with ghee until crisp.

Aloo pulao cooks rice with potato and onion, plain and filling.

Eggless chocolate mousse is a chilled no-bake dessert made with dark chocolate ganache and folded whipped cream.

Dal tadka cooks pigeon peas soft and finishes them with a tempering poured over at the end.

Classic fruit tart pairs a crisp shortcrust shell with thick vanilla custard and fresh glazed fruit.

Gobi pulao cooks rice with cauliflower and peas, seasoned with whole spices.

Kachumber chops cucumber, tomato and onion fine and dresses them with lemon, the salad that sits beside almost any Indian meal.

Classic masala chai simmers black tea with ginger, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, milk, and sugar for a strong spiced Indian tea.

Masala dosa wraps a spiced potato filling in a thin, crisp fermented rice crepe.

Matar pulao cooks rice with green peas and whole spices, about as plain as a pulao gets.

Mishti doi sets sweetened milk with yoghurt culture in an earthen pot, which draws out the water as it sets.

Onion pulao cooks rice with a large amount of browned onion, which sweetens the whole pot.

Paneer biryani layers marinated paneer under rice and finishes it sealed.

Classic phirni is a North Indian ground-rice milk pudding chilled in clay bowls with cardamom, saffron and nuts.

Rice kheer simmers rice in milk until the grains break and the milk thickens around them.

Classic tomato soup simmers tomato with onion, carrot and garlic, then blends it smooth.

Veg schezwan fried rice tosses rice and vegetables in the Indo-Chinese chilli-garlic sauce.

Vegetable fried rice is the Indo-Chinese street version, cooked fast over high heat so the rice stays separate.

Vegetable pulao cooks rice and vegetables together in one pot, seasoned with whole spices rather than a masala.

Clear chicken and mushroom soup keeps the broth unthickened so the ginger and mushroom stay in the foreground.

Dal khichdi cooks rice and mung dal together until soft, the dish people eat when they want nothing complicated.

Masoor dal khichdi cooks rice with red lentils, which break down faster than mung and make it softer.

Coriander rice grinds fresh coriander and mint into a paste that colours the whole pot green.

Cream of mushroom soup blends sauteed mushrooms with milk into a smooth, thick soup.

Afghani soya chaap tikka marinates soy chaap in cream and yoghurt, pale rather than red.

Egg lababdar cooks boiled eggs in a smooth cashew and tomato gravy finished with cream.

Spinach and almond soup blends ground almonds into the greens, which thickens it without cream.

Creamy Tender Coconut Shake blends soft coconut malai with coconut water, chilled milk, and condensed milk for a dense coastal shake.

Crispy arbi roast boils colocasia, flattens each piece and fries it with carom seeds until the edges crisp.

Bread roll wraps spiced potato in flattened bread and fries it into a sealed log.

Chilli baby corn batters baby corn and tosses it in a hot Indo-Chinese sauce.

Chilli gobi batters cauliflower and tosses it in a hot Indo-Chinese sauce.

Corn palak tikki binds sweet corn with spinach and potato into patties.

Crispy corn salt and pepper coats corn kernels in flour and fries them, then tosses them with pepper and spring onion.

Egg bonda coats a boiled egg in spiced gram flour batter and deep-fries it whole.

Idli chilli 65 fries leftover idli and tosses it in a chilli and curry leaf masala.

Jalebi pipes fermented batter into spirals, fries them and drops them straight into syrup.

Kanda bhaji fries sliced onion in gram flour batter until the strands separate and crisp.

Crispy lotus stem batters lotus root slices and fries them, a Sindhi way with a vegetable that stays crunchy.

Medu vada pipes a ground urad dal batter into rings and fries them crisp outside and soft within.

Sabudana vada binds soaked tapioca with potato and crushed peanuts and fries it into crisp patties.

Crispy soya chaap fry coats soy chaap in spices and fries it until the outside is hard.

Crispy sweet shankarpali is a Maharashtrian Diwali faral snack with flaky fried maida diamonds scented with cardamom.

Crispy thread chicken wraps chicken in shredded spring roll pastry, which fries into a nest.

Til chikki sets toasted sesame in jaggery, rolled thin so it snaps cleanly.

Dahi ke kabab set hung yoghurt firm enough to fry, so the outside crisps while the centre stays soft.

Dahi puri fills crisp puris with potato and sprouts, then floods them with yoghurt and chutney.

Dahi wale aloo simmers potato in a yoghurt gravy thickened with gram flour, kept just below a boil so it holds.

Dal ka pani is the thin water strained off cooked mung dal, seasoned lightly and given to toddlers and the unwell.