India Recipes & Spices

2009 trip -- As we travel, we always seek out new dishes. Sometimes the ingredients are obvious, but combined in a new way. Other times we need to ask the waiter, or even go back to the kitchen to see for ourselves. These are some of the new dishes we found.  Most haven't been expanded to full recipes but are listed to give some ideas.

The recipes listed below are ideas and dishes we found on our trips in India.

• Varanasi
  • Afghani mushrooms [excellent] curd and spices, skewered 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
  • Prawns tandoori - Tandoor spices, grilled or oven roasted
• 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  

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

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