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Shark

Shark

Note: Shark can be high in mercury, and is a threatened species in some locations around the world.

Shawarma

Shawarma

Spit-cooked meat such as lamb, beef, chicken, veal, layered in flatbread with tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, garlic sauce, tahini, pickled vegetables

Squid

Squid

Steak

Steak

Typically beef steak, but can be from other animals as well, many different cuts and ways to prepare, for example, ribeye, filet mignon, cowboy steak, New York strip, T-bone

Tandoori chicken

Tandoori chicken

Roasted chicken that has been marinated in yogurt and spices

Tiger prawn

Tiger prawn

Tonak

Tonak

Red cow pea curry with chili peppers, coconut, spices, may also be made with prawns, oysters, potatoes, colocasia leaves, beans

Tuna

Tuna

Ubadiyu

Ubadiyu

Vegetable curry that is traditionally cooked in earthen pots and without oil, made with vegetables, beans, potatoes, eggplant, spices

Varan bhaat

Varan bhaat

Lentil curry served with rice

Veg kolhapuri

Veg kolhapuri

Spicy coconut-based mixed vegetable curry

Vindaloo

Vindaloo

Pork vindaloo curry is traditional but vindaloo is also made with chicken, lamb, mutton, shrimp, fish, vindaloo comes from the Portuguese phrase vinho e alhos, which means wine and garlic

Xacuti

Xacuti

Goan curry, made with chicken, mutton, beef, prawns, crab, mushrooms

Xit kodi

Xit kodi

Zunka

Zunka

Chickpea flour mixed with vegetables, chili peppers, beans, spices

Aloo paratha

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Aloo paratha

Flatbread made with mashed potatoes, onions, herbs, chili peppers and spices

Appam

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Appam

Pancakes made from fermented rice batter and coconut milk, serve with curry, chutney

Baguette

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Baguette

Long thin French bread, serve with jam, honey, butter, Nutella, use to make sandwiches

Baguette

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Baguette

Long thin French bread, serve with jam, honey, butter, Nutella, use to make sandwiches

Bamboo shoots

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Bamboo shoots

Curried, pickled, fermented (bas tinga), bamboo rice, fritters

Batata vada

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Batata vada

Potato and chickpea fritters

Beef cutlet pao

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Beef cutlet pao

Sliced or minced beef cutlet on a bread roll

Besan chilla

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Besan chilla

Savory bread or pancake using chickpea flour, herbs, vegetables, chili peppers, curd, spices

Bhakri

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Bhakri

Flatbread, commonly made with a mixture of flours, for example, rice, wheat, sorghum, millet, oats

Bhel puri

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Bhel puri

Puffed rice and vegetables in a tamarind sauce

Bombay mix

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Bombay mix

Spicy snack mix made with lentils, noodles, peanuts, rice, raisins, onion, spices

Chaat

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Chaat

Street food snacks

Chakli

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Chakli

Deep-fried spiral-shaped snack made with rice flour, wheat flour, gram flour or a mixture of lentil flours

Chivda

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Chivda

Snack mix made with flattened rice (poha), dry fruits, nuts, coconut, spices

Choris pao

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Choris pao

Bread rolls stuffed with Portuguese chorizo sausage

Chouriço

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Chouriço

Spicy smoked pork sausage, different from Spanish chourizo, commonly served with pav/pao (bread rolls)

Coconut chutney

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Coconut chutney

Croissant

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Croissant

Flaky, buttery pastry, made with raisins, almonds, chocolate, cream, serve with coffee

Dahi misal

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Dahi misal

Warm chickpea chaat

Garlic butter

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Garlic butter

Compound butter made with garlic and butter, used with bread, scampi, steak, pasta, escargots a la bourguignonne

Kadio bodio

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Kadio bodio

Sweet deep-fried wheat or chickpea flour snacks that are dipped in sugar syrup and dried

Khichdi

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Khichdi

Rice and lentils

Khichu

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Khichu

Steamed rice flour dumplings, serve with oil and masala or chili powder, also made with wheat, millet, oats

Kismur

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Kismur

Dry fish or prawn salad or chutney, made with dried fish or prawns/shrimp, coconut, onions, kokum, tamarind, chili peppers, there are also vegetarian variations, for example, with bitter gourd

Mahua

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Mahua

Butter nut tree, the flowers, fruit and leaves can be eaten, made into juice

Mangalore buns

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Mangalore buns

Sweet fried bread made with mashed bananas, flour and sugar

Medu vada

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Medu vada

Urad dal (black lentil) fritter shaped like a doughnut, when served in sambar (stew) they are called sambar vada

Misal pav

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Misal pav

Spicy sprouted moth bean curry served with bread rolls (pav)

Naan

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Naan

Neer dosa

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Neer dosa

Rice flour crepe, serve with curries, chutney, saagu, sambar

Pao

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Pao

Bread roll, introduced by the Portuguese

Papadum

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Papadum

Wafer-thin flatbread, serve with chutney, curry

Para

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Para

Spicy vinegar paste, used to pickle dried fish, often mackerel

Patoli

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Patoli

Flattened rice dumplings, made with rice flour paste, jaggery and coconut that is steamed inside turmeric leaves, Note: this is different from Andhra patoli, which is ground chana dal with chili peppers and spices

Patra

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Patra

Seasoned colocasia (taro) leaves that are rolled, sliced and fried or steamed, similar to patrode in Karnataka

Patrode

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Patrode

Colocasia leaves with a spiced rice mixture, may be rolled, mixed, similar to patra in Gujuart

Pinaca

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Pinaca

Sweets made with rice, coconut, jaggery and cardamom, serve with tea

Poha

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Poha

Flattened rice, used in many dishes

Prawn balchao

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Prawn balchao

Spicy pickled prawns, made with turmeric, chili peppers, mustard, cumin, serve with rice

Puran poli

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Puran poli

Flatbread stuffed with a sweet lentil filling

Puri

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Puri

Unleavened deep-fried bread, typically served with a curry

Puri bhaji

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Puri bhaji

Deep-fried flatbread served with potato curry

Ragda pattice

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Ragda pattice

Curried vatana (white peas) with mashed potato patties (fritters), chutney, sev, onions

Raita

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Raita

Yogurt dip made with cucumbers and mint

Rava fry

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Rava fry

Deep-fried fish (rava fish fry), prawns (prawn rava fry, rava fried prawns, prawns rawa fry), chicken, mussels, potatoes, onions, eggplant, vegetables, the food is coated in semolina (rava) and deep-fried

Recheado masala

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Recheado masala

Spicy red chili pepper paste, used with fish, seafood, stir fries, curries, made with chili peppers, garlic, cloves, haldi, jeera, mustard, black pepper, tamarind, ginger, sugar, methi, vinegar

Ros omelette

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Ros omelette

Egg and herb omelette topped with spicy curry or gravy made with chicken, mutton, chickpeas, serve with bread

Roth

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Roth

Fried sweet bread or cookies, made with cardamom, sugar, nuts, coconut, poppy seeds

Sangri ki sabji

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Sangri ki sabji

Stir fried green beans, ker (green berries from capparis decidua, a thorny bush) and spices

Sannas

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Sannas

Steamed rice cake with coconut

Sev

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Sev

Deep-fried chickpea noodles

Sev puri

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Sev puri

Small fried flatbreads topped with potatoes, chutney, onions, tomatoes, sev (crispy gram flour noodles)

Shankarpali

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Shankarpali

Small cut pieces of deep-fried dough, can be sweet, spicy, sour

Suke

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Suke

Spicy curry made with dried sardines, prawns, clams

Thalipeeth

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Thalipeeth

Savory multigrain flatbread, serve with butter, curd, pickles, curry, bhaaji

Thepla

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Thepla

Flatbread, commonly made with fenugreek (methi thepla)

Vada pav

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Vada pav

Potato fritter inside a bread bun

Xacuti curry powder

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Xacuti curry powder

Akuri

Akuri

A Parsi scrambled eggs dish with chili peppers, tomatoes, onions, potatoes, paneer, spices, commonly served with roti or pav flatbreads

Aloo poha

Aloo poha

Flattened rice mixed with potatoes, chili peppers, spices

Aloo puri

Aloo puri

Potato curry with fried puffed flatbread, also refers to savory flatbread made with potatoes

Bun maska

Bun maska

Soft buns, may contain candied fruit, traditionally topped with butter, whipped cream

Chivda

Chivda

Snack mix made with flattened rice (poha), dry fruits, nuts, coconut, spices

Dabeli

Dabeli

Potato burger, topped with pomegranate, onion and sev, serve with garlic chutney

Dhokla

Dhokla

Rice and chickpea paste that is spiced and steamed, serve with tamarind chutney

Fafda

Fafda

Crispy chickpea flour snack, serve with fafda chutney

Handvo

Handvo

Savory cake or bread made with fermented lentils, vegetables, rice

Khatta dhokla

Khatta dhokla

Small savory cakes made with a fermented dal and rice batter, chili peppers, ginger, spices

Lilva kachori

Lilva kachori

Deep-fried dumpling filled with pigeon peas, lentils (dal), onion

Masala idli

Masala idli

Rice cakes, cut into pieces and stir fried with a gravy made with onions, tomatoes, chili peppers and spices

Misal pav

Misal pav

Spicy sprouted moth bean curry served with bread rolls (pav)

Moong dal dhokla

Moong dal dhokla

Savory steamed mung bean cakes

Muthia

Muthia

Steamed or fried dumplings made with gram flour, wheat flour, semolina, vegetables, fenugreek, chili peppers, spices, eaten as snacks, used in curries

Neer dosa

Neer dosa

Rice flour crepe, serve with curries, chutney, saagu, sambar

Panki

Panki

Pancake-like snack cooked in banana leaves, made with rice flour, corn flour, moong dal flour, chili peppers, ginger, spices, serve with chutney

Pudla

Pudla

Savory chickpea flour crepes or pancakes

Rotli

Rotli

Surti locho

Surti locho

Steamed gram flour dumpling or porridge, made with poha, turmeric, ginger, lemon juice, chili powder, cumin

Thalipeeth

Thalipeeth

Savory multigrain flatbread, serve with butter, curd, pickles, curry, bhaaji

Tomato dosa

Tomato dosa

Flatbread made with tomato puree, rice, urad dal, chili peppers, spices

Usal

Usal

Mixed bean and sprout curry, made with dried beans, pulses, sprouted beans, lentils, coconut

Aamras

Aamras

Pureed mango, eaten as is or blended with jaggery, cardamom, saffron, ginger, water or milk

Badam halwa

Badam halwa

A sweet pudding made with ground almonds, sugar, ghee, cardamom and saffron

Basundi

Basundi

Sweet thickened milk with nuts, fruit, cardamom, saffron

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