Cascoly Travel: India
India Recipes & Spices

More Indian Recipes

The recipes listed below are ideas and dishes we found on our trips in India. Most haven't been expanded to full recipes but are listed to give some ideas. If you'd like more details on any of these dishes, Email us.  

2009 trip

• Varanasi
  • Afghani mushrooms [excellent] – curd and spices, ‘skeward’ and roasted in tandoor oven
  • Dhanyia gosht [excellent – spinach – coriander sauce with mutton]
• Orissa
  • Papad masala Salsa like combo – chopped onions, tomato, chili
  • Gobi pakoras dredged in masala of ginger, turmeric, chili, chana paste, then deep fried
  • Chicken curry - Ginger, cardamom, cashews, tomato. chicken fried, then cooked in sauce
  • Fish tikka or prawns tandoori - Tandoor spices, grilled or oven roasted
  • dahi baigan – exc eggplant with a sauce of yogurt, ginger? Lemon grass? Mustard seeds
• Tirupati
  • palak kofta - kofta in spicy spinach sauce
  • paneer tikka masala – thick slices of cheese, in spicy tomato sauce
  • ginger chutney
  • green vegetables in coconut sauce
• Rajasthan
  • Mushroom makkei palak – corn & mush, fried with spinach and tasty sauce
  • Baigan masala – tender eggplant cooked with ginger, tomato & chili & asafedita
  • makkai capsicum – corn and green peppers with light dal base
  • Kari Varutha Curry – spicy chicken cooked in tomatoes and chiles, coriander
  • Papad Kozumad [??] old papads in a delicious soup – need to find the recipe, similar idea tot tortilla soup
  • Coconut barfi

2003 trip

10/29/03 Ahmedabad - Butter chicken  

10/28/03 Palitana Egg curry – hard boiled eggs, red curry with onions 

Saag gosht - tender cooked lamb, with spinach paste 

Mushroom caps w spinach  [2 caps, stuffed w spinach, put together, then dipped in batter & deep fried] 

10/22 Mushrooms achari [cooked in aromatic cashew sauce and pickling spices]  Mumbai hotel 

10/31  Udaipur  -kashmiri kebab - chicken marinated cashews, then grilled, then dipped in eggs beaten separately and baked