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Cooking
are generally cooked in any
oven
Methods, Types
of Dish tez strong; hot and spicy
tikkā pieces of boneless
bhājī curry; vegetables meat (usually chicken breast)
bhunā (huā) roasted; grilled marinated in yoghurt, herbs
biryanī rice cooked with and spices and traditionally
meat, chicken or vegetables cooked in a clay oven
and served with a sauce; the tikkā masālā tikka in a
cooked rice is layered over medium-strength sauce
Menu Reader: Food
the meat or vegetables
chaTpaTā spicy
dam steamed Desserts,
garam hot Sweets/Candies,
halka mild, moderately hot Biscuits, Cakes
jalfrezi with tomatoes and
green chilli; medium-hot āiskrīm ice cream
jhal very hot and spicy barfī fudge made from milk
kaRāhī method of cooking which has been boiled down
meat with dry masala; and condensed
indicates dishes of medium besan laDDū sweet chickpea/
strength garbanzo flour balls
kaRva bitter bhāng kulfi hashish ice cream
khaTmīTīī hā sweet and sour chhenā sweet/candy made
khaTTā sour from thick curdled milk
kōrmā meat braised in a mild dudh peRā barfi balls
yoghurt sauce gājar kā halvā halva made
miThāī sweet from carrots and cream
molee hot curry (usually fish) gulab jamun deep-fried
with coconut (Kerala) sponge ball soaked in syrup
mughlai mild, creamy halvā type of sweet/candy
Mughlai recipe made from semolina, fruit
namkīn salty; savoury or vegetables, ghee and
pathia hot thickened curry sugar
with lemon juice jalebī curly-shaped deep-fried
talā huā fried sweet/candy made from
tandūrī traditionally tandoori flour and soaked in syrup
dishes were cooked in a khōyā milk thickened by
clay oven, but nowadays boiling, used in making
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