Famous Recipes from India


One of the best known Indian dishes that one can easily find across the world is chicken tikka masala. To make this dish, pre-marinated pieces of chicken are grilled and then cooked in a thick, creamy sauce.

Another popular Indian dish is butter chicken with kaali daal and naan bread on the side.

Popular Appetizers from India

Well-known Indian appetizers include samosas, paani puri, chaats, sabudana vada, bhajjiyas and momos (dumplings).

Famous Breads from India

Indians eat a wide variety of breads such as chapatti, paratha, poori, and tandoori roti. Popular are especially naan bread and roomali roti. Parathas are breads that may often be stuffed with potato, ground meat, cauliflower, radish or even onion.

Famous Meat Dishes

While most Hindus don’t eat beef, both lamb and chicken dishes are very popular in India. However, India does have a sizeable Muslim population so beef dishes do feature as part of traditional Indian cuisine such beef fry, beef biryani etc. Lamb dishes include rogan josh, shami kebab, lamb palak, or lamb biryani. Chicken dishes are eaten in almost all parts of India and range from the delicious butter chicken to tandoori chicken, reshmi kebab, and chicken biryani, which gave also the name to our beautiful website :)

Although pork is not eaten by the majority of Indians, pork dishes are prepared in regions such as the North-east and in Goa. In fact, Pork Vindaloo is a Goan speciality.

Fish and Seafood

Since India has a long coastline, fish and seafood feature prominently in Indian cuisine. Fish is normally bought fresh from the local market and cooked with various types of seasonings, using a range of cooking techniques like frying, grilling, steaming etc. Popular fish and seafood dishes include doi maach, fish xacuti, tandoori jhinga, shrimp pulao, prawn balchao and fish amritsari.

Vegetarian Recipes from India

Indians eat a whole lot of vegetables and every region has its own style of cooking vegetarian dishes. Some of the best known vegetarian dishes include chole, palak paneer, aloo gobi, sarson ka saag etc.

Popular Desserts

Indians love their desserts and most Indian meals are rounded off with dishes like rasgulla, gulab jamun, coconut barfi, carrot halwa, shaki tukra, kulfi, shrikhand, jalebi, or ras malai.