The best Indian recipes - 256 recipes
Indian cuisine varies greatly with regional dishes that represent the world’s seventh largest country. Try some of the popular Indian dishes like stuffed eggplant, tandoori chicken, kebabs and curries. Indian food has a wide range of fragrant spices that are delicious and also stunningly colorful. Explore the recipes that make Indian food so addictive!
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Ingredients
- 2 large water or soda bottles (empty)
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 sticks butter
- 6 eggs
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 4 tbsp cocoa powder
Method
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Ready 2 large plastic bottles, cleaned and dried.
- Add 1 cup of flour to each bottle.
- Add 1/2 cup of sugar to each.
- Melt butter, then add equal halves to each bottle.
- Add 6 eggs, 3 in each.
- Add 1/2 tbsp of baking powder to each.
- Add 1/2 cup of heavy cream to each.
- Shake the bottles thoroughly until the contents are well mixed.
- In one of the bottles only, add the cocoa powder.
- Beginning with the cocoa powder mixture, add a dolop of batter to the center of a circular
- baking tin. Do the same with the other mixture, placing the dolop directly in the center of the previous one.
- Continue with alternating additions of each mixture until all batter is used and the tin is full.
- Place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy!
Top rated Indian recipes
Savories- Polony & Cheese Samoosas

By Popkrispy
Savories- Polony & Cheese Samoosas
- 1 Roll Garlic Polony
- 750gr Cheddar Cheese
- 500gr Mozarella Cheese
- 3 Peppers red yellow and green
- 2 sml pkts Cheese and Onion Chips
- Salt
- Green Chillies
- Dhania (cilantro)
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Add 1&1/4 tsp yeast and 1tsp sugar to Warm water -1& 3/4 cup of 105 - 115 degrees Fahrenheit
- all purpose Flour 3.5 Cup
- Yeast 3.5 Grams = 1 & 1/4 tsp
- Salt 1/2 Teaspoons
- Sugar 1/2 Teaspoons
- Butter 3.5 Teaspoons
- Water Warm 1.75 Cup
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Molagai Podi/South Indian Chutney Powder

By Curryandvanilla, CurryandVanilla
A spicy mixed lentils powder, normally enjoyed with a bit of oil (preferably sesame or coconut oil) as a condiment ...
- 1 cup split urad dal/Split black gram
- 1 cup chana dal/split Bengal gram or split chickpea
- 1 cup dry red chillies (more or less according to how spicy you want your chutney powder)
- ½ teaspoon hing/asafetida
- Few Curry leaves (optional)
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- 2 teaspoons cooking oil (coconut or sesame oil)
- Salt to taste
Paneer Makhani

By srijata
Heat butter sauté grated onion till golden brown
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 2 tsp kashmiri red chilli powder
- 1 tsp cumin seed powder
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp sugar
- salt to taste
- 1 tbsp butter
- 200 gms paneer cubes (cottage cheese)
- 300 gms tomatoes (blanched and pulped)
- 1 cup fresh cream
- Coriander leaves
- 1 small onion grated
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Mango Chutney (Mango Relish, Aam Ka Lacha)

By rheamdesai
Mango Chutney is a lightly spiced, sweet and sour relish with a chunky texture that makes a perfect condiment
- 2 raw Green Mangoes (about 3 cups of peeled and shredded mango)
- 2 tablespoon Oil
- 1 teaspoon Nigella Seeds (Onion Seeds or Kalonji)
- 4 whole dry Red Chilies
- 1 tablespoon shredded Ginger
- 2 tablespoons Golden Raisins
- 1/2 teaspoon Chili Powder
- 2 teaspoons Salt
- 1 cup Sugar
Tandoori naan

By ashina08
Mix the flour, baking soda, sugar, and salt together
- 1 cup whole-wheat flour
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoon oil
- 1/4 cup yogurt
- About 1/4 cup of water as needed
- 1/4 cup whole-wheat flour for rolling
Apple Chutney

By sunflowerkudi
We reccomend this on crackers or with fishcakes, halibut, or salmon!
- approx 10 granny smith apples (peeled and grated)
- Sugar ( same amount as apples. e.g. if apples equal 4 cups grated then 4 cups sugar)
- salt to taste
- soif (fennel seed)
- paprika
- hot pepper
- 2 onions (grated)
- crushed garlic
- 1 tbs oil
- cloves
- masala
- vinegar
Adai batter

By LDM
Soak Rice and dal all separately
- Raw rice- 1 cup
- Boiled rice- 1 cup
- Chana dal- 1/2 cup
- Tuar dal -1/2 cup
- Ural dal- 1/8 cup
- red chillies-6
- Hing
- Salt
Nuts Rava Upma

By Tanyadesigan, Easy and Simple Foods
An Authentic rava upma enriched with peanuts, cashews and bengal gram
- Rava (Coarse) - 1 cup
- onion - 1 small
- green chili- 2 medium
- ginger - a small piece (optional)
- bengal gram - 3 tea spoons
- peanut- 3 tea spoons
- cashews- 2 tea spoons
- mustard seeds- 1/2 tea spoon
- urad daal- 1 tea spoon
- curry leaves- a few
- Oil- 3 to 4 tea spoons
- ghee- 1 tea spoon(optional)
- salt- as per taste
Snake gourd Raitha

By Tanyadesigan, Easy and Simple Foods
An alternate healthy raitha for regualr onion or cucumber raitha
- Raw snake gourd- 3/4 of a cup (finely chopped)
- Beaten Curd - 1/2 cup
- salt - a pinch
- pepper powder - 1 pinch
- To temper: (Optional)
- Oil - 1 tea spoon
- mustard seeds, urad dal -1/2 tea spoon each
- peanuts- 1 tea spoon
- curry leaves- a few
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Rava laddu
- Semolina ½ cup
- Ghee 1 tbsp
- Cashew ½ tbsp
- Raisins ½ tbsp
- Coconut grated ½ cup
- Sugar 2 tbsp
- Milk ¼ cup
- Cardamom powder ¼ tsp
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Ven pongal
- Raw rice ¾ cup
- Moong dal ¼ cup
- Water 3 ½ cup
- Salt 3 tsp
- Ghee 3 tbsp
- Cashew 1 tbsp
- Peppercorns ½ tsp
- Cumin ½ tsp
- Curry leaves 6 – 7
- Ginger ¼ inch
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Moong Daal Recipe
- Moong Daal -1 cup
- rice - 2 tea spoon
- urad daal - 2 tea spoon
- Onions - 1/2 a big onion or 1 medium (finely chopped)
- Green chili - 1 or 2 (as per your spice level) (finely chopped)
- Perungayam - 2-3 pinches
- salt - to taste
- Oil to deep fry
- curry leaves - a few (finely chopped)
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Indian Sloppy Joes
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp minced garlic
- 2 heaped tsp finely chopped ginger
- 1 tomato diced
- 2 tsp cayenne or Indian chili powder*
- 1-2 tbsp coriander powder
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- 1 lb lean ground beef (I use 93% lean)
- 1 tsp black pepper
- Salt
- 1 c water
- ¼ c tomato ketchup
- 1 ½ tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2-3 tbsp softened butter
- 24 Hawaiian rolls (two 12 packs) or any mildly sweet rolls
- handful chopped cilantro
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Egg curry ( kuzhambu)
- Oil ¼ cup
- Vadagam 1 tsp
- Onion 1
- Tomato ½
- Tamarind lime size
- Red chili powder 1 tbsp
- Coriander powder 1 tbsp
- Cumin powder ½ tbsp.
- Salt 1 tsp
- Water 1 cup
- Egg 2
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Biryani
- rice
- chicken
- onions
- masala
- orange food colouring
- spices
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Carrot halwa
- Carrot 1 cup
- Milk 1 cup
- Sugar ½ - ¾ cup (as per your taste)
- Cardamom powder 1 tsp
- Cashews 1 tsp
- Almonds 1 tsp chopped
- Raisins 1 tsp
- Ghee ¼ cup
- Khoya 1 tbsp
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Tirunelveli halwa with whole wheat
- Wheat 1 cup
- Sugar 1 ¼ cup
- Ghee 1 cup
- Lemon 1
- Cashew 1 tbsp
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Maggi Noodles indian style
- Maggi vegetable atta noodles
- -1packet 95 gm
- carrot - 2,
- beans - 250gm
- Peas - 100gm
- Onion - 2 medium
- tomato - 1
- Oil - 4 tsps
- Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
- Urad dal - 1 tsp
- Curry leaves
- Water - 4 cups
- Salt - 1/2 tsp
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Diamond sweet
- All-purpose flour 1 cup
- Ghee 2 tbsp
- Sugar 3 tbsp
- Water ½ cup
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Milk khoya: (paal ghova)
- Milk - 4 cups
- Sugar - 8 tbsp
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Besan Puda (Gram Flour Dosa)
- 1 cup Gram Flour (Besan)
- 1/4 cup Rice Flour
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 3/4 cup Water
- 1/2 teaspoon Cumin Seeds (Jeera)
- 1 teaspoon chopped Green Chilies
- 1 cup shredded Zucchini (Italian Squash)
- 1 tablespoon chopped Cilantro
- 6 tablespoons of Oil
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