Punjabi cuisine
Punjabi cuisine is food from the Punjab region of northwestern India and eastern Pakistan. It can be non-vegetarian or completely vegetarian. One of the main features of Punjabi cuisine is its diverse range of dishes. Home cooked and restaurant Punjabi cuisine can vary significantly, with restaurant style using large amounts of ghee, clarified butter, with liberal amounts of butter and cream, with home cooking concentrating on mainly upon preparations with whole wheat, rice and other ingredients flavored with masala.Within the Punjab region, there are different preferences. People in the area of Amritsar prefer stuffed parathas and milk products. In fact, the area is well known for quality of its milk products. There are certain dishes which are exclusive to Punjab, such as sarson da saag. The main masala in a Punjabi dish consists of onion, garlic and ginger. Tandoori food is a Punjabi speciality especially for non-vegetarian dishes. Many of the most popular elements of Anglo-Indian cuisine - such as Tandoor, Naan, Pakoras and vegetable dishes with paneer - derive from the Punjab.
Breakfast
Meat
- Chicken: tandoori chicken, butter chicken, chicken tikka.
- Lamb: rogan josh, bhuna gosht, kadhai gosht, raan gosht, dal gosht, saag gosht, nihari gosht, rara gosht, paye da shorba.
- Fish: These are all freshwater fish dishes like Amritsari fish, tandoori fish, fish tikka, fish pakora.
- Kebabs: Various lamb, chicken kebabs.
- Biryanis: chicken biryani and lamb biryani.
- Keema with naan: braised minced meat.
- Kunna Gosht:meat prepared in Kunna (matti ka bartan)
- Paye:Sri Paye
Vegetarian
Pulse, bean and/or lentil preparations:- sarson da saag (a dish prepared from green mustard leaves) and with makki di roti, a bread made by corn flour
- Mushroom and bean sabzi
- Dal makhani (lentils with cream and butter)
- rajma (red kidney bean) and rice
- rongi (Black-eyed peas)
- choley (eaten with naan or kulcha)
Other vegetarian dishes
- Kadhi is a type of curry made by cooking garamflour with curd or buttermilk. Fried lumps (Pakoras) of gramflour with salt and chillies are also added. It is eaten with rice.
- Paneer dishes like Shahi Paneer, Khoya Paneer
- Sweet dishes like Phirni, Jalebi, Malpua, Sheer korma
- Snacks like Pakoras, Samosas
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