What's your favorite Indian dish?

[ahem]

For me it's Palak (sag) Paneer over basmati

with:
Sweet mango lassi to sip and some samosas with potatoes and peas, onion kulcha (nan bread stuffed with onion), and kheer for dessert (rice pudding!)

(and I haven't even started with the pre-meal nibbles. Maybe some hot pickled carrots with mustard seeds, and some cucumber ra... I better stop. I'm getting hungry.)

[pink-o]

1. chana masala

I never met a bean I didn't love, and garbanzos are my favourite.

Yum. Getting hungry now.

[ahem]

3. good choice!

garbanzos are heavenly. Lentils are pretty fine, too.

[LiberalEsto]

2. I love palak paneer and samosas

but give me a hot-from-the-stove puffy puri or some aloo paratha - a flat bread stuffed with spiced peas and potatos. Cucumber raita. Lime pickle and coriander chutney.

I just discovered a nice Indian grocery near us with fabulous frozen flatbreads that you heat in a frying pan, and great frozen meals and low prices. Oh, the spices! Yummmmm.

[ahem]

16. aloo paratha

That's probably the only flat bread on the menu I haven't tried. I'm fix that next time I'm out :)

[benny05]

26. But I prefer Sag chicken

and basmati rice and paratha! yum, yum!

[gollygee]

20. Mmmmmmmmm I love aloo paratha

I had some of that tonight too :D

[salinen]

4. Acorn bread

Also Elk liver.

[blondeatlast]

5. Palak Paneer--I make a mean one.

I have to, my hubby's Punjabi.

[ahem]

6. Feed me...

I can make the cheese just fine, but my spinach never comes out perfectly spiced and stewed just right. :(

[blondeatlast]

7. I buy the packaged cheese. As to spicing it up,

it's been purely trial and error. Hubby is damn finicky, I'll tell you.

[chaska]

8. WHAT, you again??? Geez, she likes Indian food, hiking and Dukes mayo...

Will you marry me?

[ahem]

10. If I weren't already married, I would! We already have all the important

stuff in common :)

[chaska]

12. Well, I don't know. I've been thinking....

I don't know if that's quite enough of a basis for marriage. It's definintely enough for a torrid affair, but I think we'd have to come to an accord about boiled peanuts and barbecue ... before we offed your hubby and ran off to Vegas. ;^)

[ahem]

14. boiled peanuts....drooooooool!

and I'm told my barbecue is the finest in FL. I think it's the hefty dose of Jack Daniels in the sauce. Or the peppercorn and sage rubdown. Or the coals and wood.

[taught_me_patience]

9. paneer makhuni n/t

[hippiepunk]

11. Tandoori chicken

:9

[tigereye]

18. me too!

[phusion]

13. that's also my fav...

The rice pudding rocks!!

mmm...If you're ever in Albuquerque call me and we'll stop by Taj Mahal for lunch buffet. All the saag you can eat :)

[ahem]

15. Now that sounds good!

[yewberry]

17. Malai Kofta

Just thinking about is making me hungry.

And pass the vegetable samosas, please. (We should've gotten a double order of those, maybe.)

[gollygee]

19. Chicken korma

Yum! That was my dinner tonight :D

[kiraboo]

21. I humbly recommend Penzey's spices for cooking your own

Indian. They have everything you might want, fresh, and even an excellent garam masala (punjabi) that will bring perfection to your saag paneer. They even have black cardamom!

[ahem]

22. Thanks! (googling Penzey's spices now)

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

23. Jeera rice (rice with cumin)

And seekh kababs (Pakistani). Also love spicy aloo, tandoori chicken and the chicken tikka they make at the Bengali tea shop my husband frequents in Irving. YUMMILICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Can't decide between mutter paneer and chicken makhani

:7

With onion-garlic naan and a mango lassi (summer) or chai (in winter) in either case

[politicat]

25. tie between chicken dopiaza and lamb saag

With the vegetarian versions of both in second place, and Korma of any sort in 3rd....

But I'm not picky. If it's Indian, I'll probably eat it and praise it.

[giant_robot]

27. Lamb Vindaloo

Yum. We've got a couple of really good Indian restaurants in Buffalo.

[BiggJawn]

28. Preity Zinta

yeah, she's a prety hot dish, no?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

31. HAHAHAHA

As a woman, I think Rani Mukherjee and Juhi Chawla are prettier, but that's me.

Rani Mukherjee


Juhi Chawla

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

32. My husband's a great cook

All you korma lovers, come on down to Texas and he'll cook up a mess of korma for you!

[EstimatedProphet]

29. Lamb vindaloo

Had it for dinner tonight, although at this restaurant it was kind of strange-no tomato in the sauce.

[Mass_Liberal]

30. hmmm

Lamb Vindaloo, samosas, and a mango lassi. With a side order of rajita. That's pretty much heaven.

[clyrc]

33. I love most of it

Where I live Indian food is everywhere, wonderful, and cheap. There is a delicious vegetarian restaurant I go to, but I couldn't tell you what I eat there because my Punjabi friend always orders for me.

[Jamison]

34. Chicken Tikka Masala

Yeah...I want some like right now!

[yellowdogintexas]

37. ohhh yeah....I love that, also the 9 vegetable curry and the

or the one that is just cauliflower, peas and potatoes.


If I am cooking it, it is lentils because that is the only Indian thing I really know how to fix; my recipe came from a Pakistani friend from years ago.

[Hissyspit]

35. Tandoori mixed grill ...in London

[Hissyspit]

36. With lots of naan and sauces

[pilgrimsoul]

38. Indian food is the BEST!

My favorite meal in the entire world is:

Chicken Makhani w/ LOTS of extra sauce for dipping bread
Basmati Rice Pilaf
Vegetable Samosas
Naan & Puri breads
Cardamom tea
and Pistachio Ice Cream for dessert!

Don't you just LOVE the sensual scent of Indian spices?! I want to just melt into my chair and sigh with delight after a satisfying Indian dinner. To me, that is the height of culinary indulgence. Mmmmmmm!