What would be a good Indian dish to try if I'm not familiar with Indian cuisine?

Question

I must have meat or chicken, no vegetarian crap. I love spicy food and most vegetables, but I have to have some type of meat, chicken, or fish in the meal.

Answer 1

pl. select your indian restaurant on the basis of it's management. punjabi or andhra management is very good, they give both meat and fish prepared by expert chefs, and have a tandoor, a speciality.
pl. order mutton kebabs, or chicken tikkas, as per your preference, followed by dum mutton biryani, that's rice cooked on slow fire, with a sealed lid, to retain flavour. you can have tandoori naans, or kulchas, with some chicken curry, and order for paneer-mutter,as a vegetable with paneer, yogurt, one dal-fry.
they will serve pickles, salad, with the rice preparation.
if instead of paneer, you want to try fish, pl.order pomfret- fry, or prawns masala, or prawns fry.
for desserts, you can order carrot- halwa, or dudhi- halwa, or sewai, that's vermiceli in sweet milk, or any other sweet on their menu.
if you prefer your dishes dry, little spicy, but less oily, go for all tandoori items, like tandoori chicken, mutton tikkas, and have a mutton curry, for nans, which are rotis, roasted in tandoor. but you must try the dum biryani, it's a speciality of indian food. after the starters, have rotis, and lastly, rice,i.e.biryani. ask them to give you medium spicy, which you cantolerate, and enjoy !

Answer 2

Tandoori chicken is very good and extremely approachable. It is not particularly spicy, but most Indian restaurants have chutneys on the side that you can dab onto your chicken to adjust the flavor and spice levels.

Naan - fresh and hot from the oven - is a soft flatbread and is one of the best bread products I have ever had (and I bake). Chapatti (sp?) are a crispy flatbread and are also excellent.

Dal or daal is a type of lentil (not the nasty, brown, soil-flavored French lentil) stew that has been a yellow or yellowish-orange color and spicy every time I have had it. It is excellent.

Vegetable pakora are a sort of vegetable fritter. The batter coating is made from chickpea flour and sometimes spices. Also superb.

If you don't find the menu approachable, ask your waiter/waitress. Tell them the main ingredients you are looking for and they will enthusiastically point you in the right direction.

Honestly, I've eaten Indian food in four or five cities at many restaurants and I don't think I've ever had a bad Indian meal.

Answer 3

Try any curry... You can now find the sauces already made, or make your own with curry powder.
Curries are good with beef, chiken or lamb... Garnish with some white rice. Eat with a mango or other chutney and poppadums or Naan breads...
Here's an easy one...
Sauté a large sliced onion with 2 crushed garlic cloves when the onion is transparent add diced chicken breasts, some chopped coriander leaves, and 1 or 2 tablespoons of medium curry powder (or hot if you prefer). stirfry till the meat is tender...add a small glass of dry wine (a sherry type) and a can of coconut milk, stir until well mixed and serve while hot on a bed of rice. I add a handful of raisins while cooking the meat (optional) and accompany with some mixed vegetables, not only the rice...

Answer 4

Chicken tikka masala. It's not so much a real Indian dish as an adaptation of Indian cooking traditions specialized for Western tastes, but that doesn't stop it from being good.

Answer 5

arrot- halwa, or dudhi- halwa, or sewai, that's vermiceli in sweet milk, or any other sweet on their menu.
if you prefer your dishes dry, little spicy, but less oily, go for all tandoori items, like tandoori chicken, mutton tikkas, and have a mutton curry, for nans, which are rotis, roasted in tandoor. but you must try the dum biryani, it's a speciality of indian food. after the starters, have rotis, and lastly, rice,i.e.biryani. ask them to give you medium spicy, which you cantolerate, and enjoy !
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Answer 6

Tandoori Chicken / Tandoori Fish
-Chicken Tikka Masala
-Seekh Kabab wrap (or by itself)

Answer 7

Start with tandoori chicken, basmati rice, and some naan flatbread. If you love spicy and rich, go for the chicken korma. It's just decadent.

Answer 8

Indian food is great...and SPICY!!!
The most important part is the side dish......
they always eat their spicy food with plain yogurt.....
I´ve eaten in New Delhi and they´ve explained that the yogurt helps digest the spicy food...so whatever your recipe is, don´t forget the yogurt!!!

Answer 9

Try Chicken Birani rice, and naan with curry sauce as a side dish.
They both are good.

Answer 10

Paneer Tikka Masala dried wraped in Roti's.