Decoding The Menu of an Indian Restaurant Take Away Indian cuisine is considered to be one of the finest in the world. With a huge variety of foods to choose from, it attracts thousands of people from all over the world. If you are keen to enjoy it but cannot seem to understand the terms written on an Indian restaurant take away, you will find plenty of helpful information here.
How to Understand the Menu
Appetizers
The commonest appetizers include samosa, pakora and chaat. While the first two are fried foods with stuffing of vegetable or meat or fish, the last item is a mixture of flattened rice, raw vegetables such as onion, tomato, chili and fresh herbs such as coriander leaves. It also contains some other spices and condiments. Chaat has several variations so when you order at Adelaide restaurants serving Indian food, find out what kind of chaat is served there.
Breads
Different types of breads are there in the Indian cuisine. While all of them are flat, none of them taste even remotely alike. Stuffed bread is called kulcha where the stuffing could be vegetarian or non-vegetarian. The other varieties are naan, tandoori, rumali and chapatti. Tandoori is a style of cooking where food is cooked inside a clay oven. The name of the tandoori bread is so because it is baked in that style. Some Indian bread are even fried and called puri and paratha. The former is small in size and the latter is a little larger. Both are available in stuffed and non-stuffed varieties. Both of them are eaten with a side dish of curry or dal (lentil soup) and chutney or pickle.
Tikka
The term “Tikka” refers to a particular preparation of meat where the meat is cubed and skewered. Tikkas are not just limited to meat in fact paneer and fish tikkas are also available at any good Indian eatery.
Curry
Everybody knows what curry means. However, the taste of curry is often misunderstood as highly spicy. The truth is curries can be extremely bland and even sweet. It depends on the region where the food belongs. Every state in India has different cooking styles and that is why the name of a preparation remains the same whereas the taste differs greatly. Almost all Indian curries contain fresh herbs.
Desserts
Indian desserts are just as varied as other foods from the subcontinent. Apart from solid sweet dishes like kulfi which is a variation of ice cream, there are liquid sweet dishes such as lassi. It is probably the most popular liquid Indian dessert. Its texture is like smoothie. It is made from yogurt and can be flavored with the essence of mango/strawberry etc.
This guide is not an ultimate guide to Indian food but it will definitely help you understand the menu better when you visit Indian CBD Restaurants.