Indian Food

The traditional food of India has been widely appreciated for its fabulous use of herbs and spices. Indian cuisine is known for its large assortment of dishes. The cooking style varies from region to region. India is quite famous for its diverse multi cuisine available in a large number of restaurants and hotel resorts, which is reminiscent of unity in diversity. The staple food in India includes wheat, rice and pulses with chana (Bengal Gram) being the most important one. To know more about the Indian traditional food, read on.

Bengali Food
Bengali cuisine is appreciated for its fabulous use of panchphoron, a term used to refer to the five essential spices, namely mustard, fenugreek seed, cumin seed, aniseed, and black cumin seed. The specialty of Bengali food lies in the perfect blend of sweet and spicy flavors.

Gujarati Food
The traditional Gujarati food is primarily vegetarian and has a high nutritional value. The typical Gujarati thali consists of varied kinds of lip smacking dishes. Gujarati cuisine has so much to offer and each dish has an absolutely different cooking style.

Kashmiri Food
Kashmiri food that we have today in the restaurants has evolved over the years. Highly influenced by the traditional food of the Kashmiri pundits, it has now taken some of the features of the cooking style adopted in Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan.

Mughlai Cuisine
Mughlai cuisine is one of the most popular cuisines, whose origin can be traced back to the times of Mughal Empire. Mughlai cuisine consists of the dishes that were prepared in the kitchens of the royal Mughal Emperors. Indian cuisine is predominantly influenced by the cooking style practiced during the Mughal era.

Punjabi Food
The cuisine of Punjab has an enormous variety of mouth-watering vegetarian as well as non vegetarian dishes. The spice content ranges from minimal to pleasant to high. Punjabi food is usually relished by people of all communities. In Punjab, home cooking differs from the restaurant cooking style.

Rajasthani Food
The cuisine of Rajasthan is primarily vegetarian and offers a fabulous variety of mouthwatering dishes. The spice content is quite high in comparison to other Indian cuisines, but the food is absolutely scrumptious. Rajasthanis use ghee for cooking most of the dishes. Rajasthani food is well known for its spicy curries and delicious sweets.

South Indian Cuisine
The cuisine of South India is known for its light, low calorie appetizing dishes. The traditional food of South India is mainly rice based. The cuisine is famous for its wonderful mixing of rice and lentils to prepare yummy lip smacking dosas, vadas, idlis and uttapams.

Name	Type	Main ingredient(s)	Vegetarian/Non-Vegetarian
1	Chapati	Bread	Whole Wheat flour	Vegetarian
2	rice	rice	rice	Vegetarian
3	Biryani	Main/Side	Rice, optional spices, optional vegetables or meats
4	Naan	Bread	Refined Wheat flour	Vegetarian
5	Paratha	Bread	Wheat flour	Vegetarian
6	Tandoori chicken	Non-Veg	Chicken
7	Chole bhature	Main	Chick peas, assorted spices, Wheat flour & Yeast for bhatura	Vegetarian
8	Baati	Ghee(Clarified butter)	Wheat flour	Vegetarian
9	Dal	Main	Assorted types of lentils, such as toor, urad, chana, masoor dal	Vegetarian
10	Bhatura	Bread	Wheat flour (it is fried)	Vegetarian
11	Rajma	Main	Kidney beans & assorted spices	Vegetarian
12	Dal Makhani (Kali Dal)	Main	a typical type of lentil is used	Vegetarian
13	Dal fry with tadka	typical north Indian tadka		Vegetarian
14	Daal Baati Churma	rajasthani special		Vegetarian
15	Daal Puri	Stuffed Dal in Parathas		Vegetarian
16	Karela Bharta		Bitter Gourd / Melon	Usually vegetarian
17	Bhindi Masala		Okra sautéed with Onions and Tomatoes	Vegetarian
18	Sattu ki Roti	Dish from bihar		Vegetarian
19	Gajar ka Halwa	UP Dish	A carrot pudding	Vegetarian
20	Rajma Chaval	Bean Curry with Rice		Vegetarian
21	Poha	Specialty from Madhya Pradesh. Common snack in Central part of India.		Vegetarian
22	Makke ki Roti, Sarso da saag	Punjabi speciality		Vegetarian
23	Samosa		Potatoes, onions, peas, coriander, and lentils	Vegetarian
24	Kachori	Rajasthani /marwari special		Vegetarian
25	Kheer	Rice Cooked with Milk and dry fruits	Milk and Rice, dry Fruits	Vegetarian
26	Palak Daal	Spinach with Toor Daal		Vegetarian
27	Kofta	gram flour balls fried with vegetables	Gram flour, Veggies. rolled into balls with gram flour and fried in oil and then cooked with curry.	Vegetarian
28	Methi Saag , Chaulai Saab	Veggie leaves sauteed in oil and garlic with little masalas	Cooked mostly in Central part of India.	Vegetarian
29	Khichadi	Rice cooked with daal and veggies and sauteed.		Vegetarian
30	Sooji Halwa	Samolina cooked with clarified butter and Dry fruits.		Vegetarian
31	Singhada Halwa	Lotus Fruit dried and powdered to make this fasting sweet meat.		Vegetarian
32	Palak Paneer	Cottage cheese cubes in Spinach gravy.		Vegetarian
33	Aloo Matar	Potatoes and peas in curry		Vegetarian
34	Dum Aloo	Potatoes cooked in Curry.		Vegetarian
35	Gobhi Aloo	Cauliflower with potatoes sauteed with garam masala.		Vegetarian
36	Matar Patratha, Paneer Paratha, Aloo Paratha, gajar paratha, mooli Paratha	All stuffed parathas with different veggies.		Vegetarian
37	Aloo methi	Methi leaves and potatoes nicely flavoured		Vegetarian
38	Arbi masala	Edoes cooked in onion tomato masala		Vegetarian
39	Mushrrom do piaza			Vegetarian
40	Mixed vegetable			Vegetarian
41	Vegetable jalfrezi			Vegetarian
42	Ghiya ki subji			Vegetarian
43	Bharwein tinde			Vegetarian
44	Aloo baingan			Vegetarian
45	Bharwein baigan			Vegetarian
46	Aloo simla mirch			Vegetarian
47	Ghiye ke kofte			Vegetarian
48	Pattor			Vegetarian
49	Ramatori subji			Vegetarian
50	baigan bharta			Vegetarian
51	Jeera aloo			Vegetarian
52	Kadai paneer			Vegetarian
53	Paneer butter masala			Vegetarian
54	Butter Chicken
55	Amritsari fish
56	Amritsari kulcha			Vegetarian
57	Chana masala			Vegetarian
58	Misi roti			Vegetarian
59	Navrattan korma
60	Rongi			Vegetarian
61	Pindi chana			Vegetarian
62	French bean aloo			Vegetarian
63	Bharwein karela			Vegetarian
64	Shahi paneer			Vegetarian
65	Mushroom matar			Vegetarian
66	Moong dal ka halwa			Vegetarian
67	Phirni			Vegetarian
68	Amriti with Rabdi			Vegetarian
69	Mathura ke pde			Vegetarian
70	Pinni			Vegetarian
71	Panjeeri			Vegetarian
73	katha meetha petha/halwakadoo			Vegetarian
74	Sweet Pethas/ kesar petha/ pista petha			Vegetarian
75	Gobhi matar			Vegetarian
76	Gajar matar aloo			Vegetarian
77	Aloo baingan masala			Vegetarian
78	Aloo ki Tikki			Vegetarian
79	Kulfi falooda			Vegetarian
80	Paneer Tikka Masala			Vegetarian
81	Kadhi Pakoda	Gram Flour with Yogurt with gramflour fried balls		Vegetarian