YUP’S QUICK REFERENCE MENU GUIDE

Aloo	Potato
Aloo Gobi Massalla	Potato and cauliflower cooked with medium spices. Side dish
Balti	A method of cooking a wide range of curries. Basically a curry of any kind served in a wok like dish called a balti , souk or karahi
Batters	Quail — one of the rarer balti specialties.
Bengal style	Medium hot and cooked with boiled egg.
Bhaji	Spicy deep-fried fritters, usually onion but sometimes mushrooms or other vegetables. Eaten as a starter.
Bhindi or Bhendi	Vegetable coated okra, also known as Ladies Fingers.
Bhuna style	A medium dry dish. A combination of spices fried together with tomatoes to provide a dish of medium strength and consistency
Biriani	Made by gently cooking meat with special flavor Basmati rice, together with a vegetable curry sauce (mild, medium or hot!). e.g. Chicken Biriani - generally garnished with boiled eggs and tomatoes or omelet and saffron.
Bombay	Cooked with fresh tomato and potato
Bombay duck	Dry salty fish Side dish
Bombay potatoes	Hot spiced potatoes Side dish
Ceylon	Strongly flavored spices which make them hotter (like madras) but with a coconut flavor
Chana	Chick peas.
Chapatti	Sometimes called ‘Roti’. Unleavened bread. Wholewheat flour and water mix used to make pancake shaped bread.
Chicken Moglai	Pieces of chicken cooked in delicately spiced yogurt sauce
Chicken Shashlick	A tandoori dish comprising boneless pieces of chicken with onion, tomato and green peppers, spiced and grilled on charcoal oven
Chilli massalla	As vindaloo strength curry but includes chillies
Dal	Dried lentils and pulses usually with spices
Dhansak	A hot and sweet dish with lentils and tomatoes. Pineapple and lemon juice add the sweetness and tangy flavor.
Dips or chutney trays	Chutney or yoghurt base dips with onions.
Dupiaza	Generally a medium hot, dry curry. With onions, peppers, tomatoes and coriander. Dupiaza means double onions.
Garam Masala	A full mix of Indian spices
Gobi	Cauliflower
Gosht	Lamb
Jalfrezi	Cooked with onions, tomatoes and green peppers and chillies - hot
Kashmiri	Spiced, medium hot, cooked with nuts, sultanas and bananas. Sometimes with omelet. Sometimes cooked with apricots.
Katlama	A pastry filled with mince and slowly tried in vegetable oil.
Keema	Mincemeat
Keerna Naan	A naan filled with mince and fast cooked on a griddle or in a tandoor
Kofta	Spicy meatball
Kurma	A dish with nuts and cream ideal for first timers. Made with mild spices in which milk or cream is used to create a creamy texture. Tastes of coconut.
Korahi	The karahi is actually the name for a type of an Indian iron round bottomed wok. The karahi dish is prepared with a mix of garlic, ginger, fresh green or red peppers, red chillies and coriander. The main ingredient being chicken or beef etc and the strength can obviously be amended to suit.
Kulfi	Ice cream made with milk and flavored with cardamon and coconut, pistachio or mango depending on the flavor chosen; mali’ is the nearest thing you’ll get to ‘Cornish Vanilla’
Ladies Fingers	Okra - see Bhindi above
Lamb kebab	Lamb meat marinated in yoghurt and grilled on charcoal.
Lassi	A chilled yogurt drink either salted or sweetened
Madras	Hot and fiery South Indian style curry
Malayan	Mild spices in which cream, banana and pineapple are used to create a unique flavor.
Masala or massalla	A tandoori curry sauce usually including cream, almonds and extra spices.
Methi	Fenugreek leaves, slightly bitter and strongly scented
Mughlai	Flavored with saffron
Murghi	Kashmiri chicken
Mussamman	Curry cooked with green beans, medium hot garnished with egg and tomato
Nan or Naan	Indian bread freshly baked made with special flour, yeast, eggs, milk and sugar and can be griddle cooked or cooked in a tandoori oven Plain Peshwari - Stuffed with nuts and sultanas Keema - Stuffed with minced meat Garlic Chillie etc
Nargis Kebab	Looks like a scotch egg. Egg covered with minced lamb, special herbs and spices cooked in a clay oven.
Onion Bhaji	Sliced onion mixed with gram flour and spiced, deep fried. Eaten as a starter.
Pakora	Potatoes, flour, onion and spices, deep-fried. Other variations include mixed vegetable and chicken versions.
Pakuru	Diced chicken, marinated and deep fried.
Paratha	Unleavened bread lightly fried
Pasanda	Marinated meat/lamb/chicken slices cooked in cream or yogurt and mild spices
Pathia	Hot, sweet and sour
Persian	Served with an omelet, fresh lemon, sultanas, almonds, coconut, fried onion and cucumber
Peshwari Naan	A naan stuffed with almonds and fruit
Popadom	Paper-thin discs of lentil flour fried in very hot oil, plain or spiced.
Phall	Wicked. Very hot strength curry
Pilau Rice or Pulao	Basmati rice cooked in ghee, flavored with saffron, cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaves etc.
Rogan Josh	Cooked in a delicately flavored sauce with a tinge of ginger, garlic and lots of tomatoes. Includes fresh onions, green peppers and other spices
Sag	Popeye’s favorite vegetable: Spinach.
Samosas	Vegetable and mince filled crisp triangular pastries, deep-fried
Sheek (Shish) Kebabs	Minced spiced lamb with onions, cooked in a clay oven on skewers
Shami Kebabs	Usually beef burger shaped, made with mince, flour, spices, then fried.
Shaslik	Skewered cubes of lamb or chicken usually served up with onions and peppers.
Tandoor	Clay charcoal burning oven used for baking.
Tandoori	Traditional and Oriental method of barbecuing and baking over flaming charcoal on skewers. Chicken, meat or fish individually marinated in sauce (fresh cream/yogurt) with delicate herbs and different mixes of spices before cooking e.g. Tandoori Chicken - generally on the bone: Chicken Tikka - boneless cubes of chicken.
Tandoori starter	Choice of chicken, lamb etc - Marinated in yoghurt and spices and cooked in a clay oven. Generally on the bone.
Tandoori Fish	Silver hake usually, marinated in yogurt and spices cooked in a tandoori oven
Tarka Dhal	Lentils cooked with herbs and spices flavored with garlic
Tikka	Usually chicken or lamb pieces marinated in yogurt end cooked on a skewer or in a tandoori oven
Vindaloo (Bindaloo)	Hotter than Madras. Includes a greater use of garlic, tomato, lemon, ginger and black pepper. Also Tinderloo which is extremely hot.