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Indian food dictionary

Here you will find all different food items we have tasted during our journey in India. They are ordered alphabetically.

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Achaari chaap

main, vegi

No, this is not meat (although Marko was fooled into it! Just as tasty! (I thought it was bread-like or tirit-like, but didn't want to spoil Marko's dreams)). Chaap is meat-like chunks of soya with soya beans, mixed together. It was in a curry sauce.

Aloo Jeera

side

Yummy potato cooked in pieces, marinated in Indian herbs.

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Aloo Gobi Massala

main, vegi

Even spicier Aloo Gobi.

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Aloo Gobi Adraki

main, vegi

Our favourite, incredibly tasty dish made of vegetables and potato pieces, nicely spiced and stir fried. If you've ever been to Mandala in Ljubljana, they would call it "Zelenjavna jed". But a very tasty one!

Almond and date dumpling with honey

dessert

Steamed momos filled with almonds and dates in a honey sauce. Somewhat similar to Slovenian knedlji s figovim nadevom.

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Amritsariyat paneer

main, vegi

Pumpkin curry paneer. Similar to paneer toofani, but without garlic and with sliced cashew nuts.

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Aloo paratha

starter/breakfast

Paratha is another name for roti, naan and similar flat-breads. This one is filled with onions and potato (Aloo = 🥔). It wants to remind us of Balkan krompiruša, but in a different dough.

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Baati

side

Dry balls. Kruh-kroh. Imagine an old dry piece of bread. Now make it dense and in a shape of a sphere.

Baba Ganoush

starter

Warm hummus, but made of eggplans instead of chickpeas.

Basmati rice

side

One of the most common species of rice in Asian countries. Steamed white rice. Goes great with all kinds of sauces!

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Chicken afgani

main

Chicken is served marinated in cooking cream along with different vegetables like pepper and roasted onions.

Chicken biriyani

main

Although it looks like fried rice, tastes more like kuskus. Paired with gravy makes it delicious.

Coconut pudding

dessert

Tastes like Panna cotta or vanilla pudding (made with coconut milk), with candied coconut at the top 🥥.

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Chicken lababdar

main

Chicken is served in curry souce like golaž along with onions. Not that spicy.

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Coconut lassi

drink 5 kg

Finally a lassi we wanted! A bit sour, as though made from kefir. Has a coconut taste. Doctor would be proud – almost like warm coconut water! The taste depends on the restaurant.

Curd rice

side

Milk rice, but with yoghurt instead of milk.

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Chicken sheekh kebab

starter/main

Minced chicken along with some other vegetables and spices is grilled on a metal spike (kebab) and served in a traditional čevapčič form but with a hole in the middle.

Chapati

side

Similar to roti, chapati is a thin flat bread. The wheat content may be of different source.

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Dal Makhani

main, vegi

This dense soup-like dish is made of lentil, chickpeas and curry. Combine it with naan and enjoy. This food is special regarding spiciness: while eating it, it doesn't appear spicy. However, once you stop, it comes after you! So make sure to only stop eating it once.

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Dal Kolapuri

main, vegi

Letnil soup. Good as a soup.

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Dal panchmel

main, vegi

Made of 5 types of lentil, this is a good stew. It reminds me of gvavnek (Slovenian dense cabbage & potato soup) by taste, but incluces lentil and yellow curry.

Dosa

breakfast

Huge salty pancake which tastes like Pombars crisps. Depending on your choosing, it is stuffed with different fillings. Comes with two sauces.

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Dal Methi

main, vegi

Another lentil soup – with sesame. Better than Dal Kolapuri.

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Fried Chicken Momos

starter

Spring rolls-like dumplings

Fulka

side

Similar to rotti, chapatti, naan and other flat-breads.

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Egg Khima

main, vegi

Scrambled eggs in lentil-like sauce.

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Gosht khada masala

main

Similar to Mutton Josh, which is similar to golaž. Besides goat meat, it contains onions, tomato, peppers and Indian nuts.

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Hello to the queen

dessert

Banana wheels over vanilla ice-cream on top of crumbled Oreo biscuits. Paharganj's special.

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Kadi Pakora

main, vegi

Semolina dumplings in mild yellow curry.

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Kashmiri Dam Aloo

main, vegi

Potato stuffed with cottage cheese and cashew nuts (similar to Slovenian čompe) in a Tikka Masala-like gravy (or maybe a bit sweeter).

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Kolhapuri Paneer

main, vegi

Beef soup-like goulash with very strong flavour. Very tasty!

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Kaju Lassi

drink

Kaju means cashew nut or Indian nut. This lassi contains finey chopped pieces of these nuts (we should make this a hiddenGem, but we don't have hiddeenGems on this page).

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Lassi

drink

This yoghourt-like drink alleviates your pain. It reminds us of Actimel or blueberry Ego.

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Mutton Rogan Josh

main

Goulash with goat meat, the most tasteful of the taste! 😋 Cooked nicely low and slow.

Makka

side

Naan made of corn Mehl. This gives it a bit harder, crispier texture (compare wheat and corn tortillas).

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Mutton Handi

main

Remember Mutton Rogan Josh? This is another tasty alternative. Goat goulash.

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Mutton sahi korma

main

Very similar to mutton rogan josh, but meat is served with bones and the curry is more brownish.

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Mango lassi

drink

This yoghourt-like drink has a taste of mango. Well, it depends on restaurant. One had the same taste as Jogobella or Mu peach/apricose yoghurt.

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Mouth refresher

refresher, vegi

After consuming aromatic food, almost all restaurants in Delhi gave us mouth refreshers. Usually, it is a spice in candired sugar. Anise in sugar is a good odour remover. Some other similar spices are also possible.

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Massala tea

drink

Black tea with clove, ginger, cinnamon, green cardamom, pepper and milk.

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Naan

side

Grlled flat bread, juicy as on Baščaršija in Bosnia.

Navratan korma

side, vegi

Warm vegetable and fruit salad with paneer cheese.

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Los Noodles con seafood

main

Close to the sea, you can eat seafood. A bit mor continental dishes.

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Palak kofta

main, vegi

Kofta means meatballs, but these balls were not meaty. Probably made of soy or chickpeas. We couldn't really taste it due to spice overflow. Your taste buds won't register anything anymore. Balls are covered in spinach sauce with a lot of chilly seeds.

Paper towels, alcoholated

hand cleaner

No, this is not a mouth refresher. This is a paper towel soaked in alcohol.

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Paneer Tikka Masala

main, vegi

Same gravy as the one of Mutton Rogan Josh, that is, like a tasty goulash 😋. Contains no meat, and according to Marko, it tastes like chocolate (he doesn't like chocolate, but he liked this dish!).

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Paneer makjani

main, vegi

Likeable orange curry with cheese, but if you have a mutton josh-like dish next to it, you will forget this one.

Pita

side

White blown up bread (with air inside), a bit savour by taste.

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Paneer toofani

main, vegi

Similar to the most basic paneer curry but with added garlic.

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Pakoda/Pakora

starter

Similar to Thai no name. Vegetables or meat fried in curry paste.

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Roti

side

Roti is very thin, best described as a thin salty pancake, served in sheets.

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Rajasthani gatta masala

main, vegi

They promised dumplings, but it is more like dry kofte in very spicy tomato curry sauce.

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Shahi Paneer

main, vegi

Cottage cheese-like cheese in curry sauce, decorated with milk.

Sev Tamatar Dudh Bhaji

main, vegi

Beans soup with Spätzle/fritati. Dudh Bhaji means "with milk" (another option is with water).

Steamed momos paneer

starter/tasteful side

Dumplings with paneer (cottage cheese-like cheese) and vegetables.

Soya malai chaap

starter/side, vegi

Gratinated cottage cheese pancakes.

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Thali

main

Well rounded meal with main dish served along with sides in smaller cups. Sides differ but can be vegi curry, lentil paste, sweet donut, rice, naan and so on.

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Veg Handi

main, vegi

Similar to Aloo Gobi Adraki, but a little less tasty and with ground cashew nuts.

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