Indian Cuisine: Top 10 Dishes With Recipes

Bright, fragrant, burning, magical and unusual. You usually fall in love with Indian cuisine from the first spoon, in any case, it will not leave anyone indifferent.

Bright, fragrant, burning, magical and unusual. You usually fall in love with Indian cuisine from the first spoon, in any case, it will not leave anyone indifferent. We have selected ten recipes for popular Indian dishes that Slavic housewives cook with pleasure. Try it too!

1. Curry

 

Curry is a mixture of seasonings or a thick liquid dish of stewed vegetables and meat with spices. Usually we call curry a spicy dish prepared with seasonings and sauce, and we serve it most often with rice. Curry seasoning mix includes turmeric, coriander, azhgon, fenugreek, pepper mix, fennel, ginger, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, white mustard... You can buy a ready-made seasoning mix in supermarkets or order it online.

To prepare chicken curry, in a blender, prepare a sauce of onion, garlic, tomato paste, bell pepper, coconut milk and a mixture of curry spices. Cut the fillet into pieces and stew with the sauce. Lentil curry is prepared in a similar way. See step-by-step curry recipes by clicking on the links below.  

Red Lentil Curry Recipe >>>

Coconut Milk Chicken Curry Step by Step Recipe >>>

2. Indian flatbread

 

In India, naan cakes are served instead of bread, and other cakes are also baked - pudla, kachori - with legumes or vegetables. You can fry them in a pan or bake in the oven, the dough is prepared both yeast and yeast-free. Tortillas may well become an independent dish, especially if served with sauce. 

See how to make naan bread >>>

Poodle recipe step by step >>>

Recipe for kachori cakes >>> 

3. Paneer Butter Masala

 

Paneer cheese for this dish is fried in oil and removed to a separate dish, while a fragrant sauce is prepared from onions, tomatoes, a whole bunch of spices and cream. Then the cheese and sauce are combined, lightly stewed and served. Very tasty and hearty dish, try it!

Recipe for shahi paneer >>>

4. Pani puri

 

Puri is a fluffy bread that looks like hollow doughnuts. Usually, stuffing is added to ready-made puri by cutting pastries. Cooking puri is very simple and interesting. 

For the banana puri, make a dough with flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, cumin seeds, banana and yogurt. We knead the dough, sculpt the balls, then roll them with a rolling pin into cakes. We throw the cakes into the boiling oil, where they instantly inflate. Let cool and serve with or without toppings.

Step by step banana puri recipe >>>

5. Tandoori chicken

 

According to this recipe, the chicken must be marinated in spices, and then greased with sauce and baked. Any parts of the chicken will do, however, we will cook it not in a special oven - tandoori, but in a conventional oven. Serve flavored chicken with rice. 

Step-by-step tandoori chicken recipe with photo >>>

6. Samsa or samosa

 

Samsa (samosa) is a triangular-shaped pastry pie stuffed with meat or vegetables. Bake samsa in a deep-fryer or oven. In India, samsa is usually cooked with a vegetable filling and served with chutney. We also offer a variant of puff pastry with chicken.

See how to cook chicken samsa >>>

7. Rogan Josh (lamb curry)

 

Cut lamb or lamb into pieces and fry, and then stew in a sauce of vegetables and spices. The dish is prepared for several hours and the meat is simply amazing! The curry flavor is amazing!

Lamb curry recipe with step by step photos >>>

8. Butter Chicken (chicken in creamy tomato sauce)

 

Butter Chicken Ingredients:

150 g butter; 800 g-1 kg chicken fillet; bulb; 3 cloves of garlic; 1 tbsp garam masala; 1 tbsp fresh grated ginger; 1 tsp ground chili; 1 tsp cumin; 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper; 1 1/2 cups tomato passata (mashed canned tomatoes with juice) 2 glasses of cream; salt pepper.

Melt 50 g of butter in a frying pan and fry the chicken fillet cut into squares (3 cm each) over medium-high heat until golden brown. The chicken doesn't have to be fully cooked. Fry in batches and arrange on a plate.

Put another 50 g of oil in the pan and fry the chopped onion over medium heat until soft, about 3 minutes, then add the minced garlic, garam masala, ginger, chili, cumin and cayenne pepper. Fry, stirring, for about a minute, then pour in the tomato passata. Bring to a boil, cook for 5 minutes, add cream. When the sauce begins to boil, add the chicken and simmer for 15 minutes over low heat. Add the remaining oil, salt and pepper to taste. 

Serve with rice, naan cakes, sprinkled with cilantro.

9. Alu Gobi (potato with cauliflower)

 

Ordinary potatoes and cauliflower are reincarnated in this recipe into a fragrant thick dish that will appeal to both vegetarians and meat eaters. Aloo Gobi is prepared with or without sauce.

Alu Gobi step by step recipe >>>

10. Masala chai

 

Masala Chai Ingredients: 

1/2 tsp ground cardamom; cinnamon stick (3-4 cm long); 4 peppercorns (preferably white); 1/4 tsp fennel seeds; 2 glasses of milk; brown sugar to taste (or 3 tablespoons); 1/2 tsp grated fresh ginger; 2 glasses of water; a pinch of salt; 5 tsp black tea.

Pound cardamom, cinnamon, pepper, fennel with a pestle or in a coffee grinder. Pour the milk into a saucepan and heat until the surface slightly wobbles, add brown sugar, ground spices, ginger and a pinch of salt. Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, 3 minutes. Bring water to a boil in another saucepan, add tea and simmer for a minute. Pour the tea through a sieve into the milk mixture (discard the tea) and simmer for another minute. Masala chai is ready!

Recipe for making Indian tea with milk and spices >>>