Indian cuisine/Catalogs

Under construction: this will be a list of well-known dishes in Indian cuisine, in alphabetical order.

English Name	Indian Name	Restaurant Name(s)	Predominantly	Description
Appam	Appam	Appam	South Indian	A pancake made of rice flour and lentils.
Biryani	Biryani	Biryani	pan Indian or Mughlai or Moglai; also see Iranian cuisine	A preparation of rice like Basmati cooked along with mutton or chicken or fish.
Chapati (Handmade bread)	Chapati or Chapatti or Chapathi or Roti	Chapati or Roti	North Indian	A bread, usually of atta or flour of chaffed wheat, made manually on a flat pan.
Curry	Curry or jhol or rasa or juice	Curry	North and South Indian	A spicy dish made with vegetables and or stewed meats, poultry, seafood, or other ingredients.
Dosa	Dosa or Dhosa or Dhosai	Dosa or Dhosa or Dhosai	South Indian	A pancake made of rice flour, fried in oil or ghee.
Ghulab Jamun	Ghulab jamun or ladycany or pantua	Ghulab jamun or ladycany or pantua	North Indian	A sweet made up of condensed milk and flour, deep fried in oil or ghee and dipped in sugary syrup.
Idli	Idli	Idli	South Indian	A cake made of rice flour, boiled.
Jalebi	Jalebi or Jilipi	Jalebi	North Indian	A coiled sweet made up of flour and dipped in thick sugary syrup.
Kachori	Kachori or Kochuri	Kachori	North Indian	Stuffed Puri - e.g., varieties of the stuffing pulses give rise to names like dalpuri, radhaballavi, hing kachori, khasta kachori.
Paratha	Paratha or Porotta or Parantha	Paratha or Porotta or Parantha	North and South Indian	Handmade bread - triangular or rectangular or round in shape - of flour, fried in oil or ghee.
Puri	Puri or Luchi	Puri or Luchi	North Indian	A small round bread made of flour, fried deep in a pan.
Rasgulla	Rasgulla or Rosogolla	Rasgulla or Rosogolla	North Indian	A spherical white sweet made from curdled milk and dipped in light sugary syrup.
Raita (Handmade bread)		Raita		Relish/vegetable of vegetables in yogurt
Roti (Handmade bread)	Chapati or Chapatti or Chapathi or Roti	Chapati or Chapatti or Chapathi or Roti	North Indian	See Chapati.
Samosa	Samosa or Singara	Samosa or Singara	north Indian	A salty snack made up of potatoes fried deep in a flour covering.
Tandoori	Tandoori	Tandoori	North Indian or Mughlai or Moglai	Grilled spicy preparation of either bread or varieties of meat or cottage cheese.