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leaf based dishes), and chana masala (a
dish made with chick peas)are often
available at restaurants. Paneer tikka,
mutter paneer (a dish made with
tomato sauce and paneer),palak paneer
(a dish with gravy made of spinach and
tomato), dum aloo (a dish with potatoes
cooked on a low flame, and spiced rice
(kheema) are also popular.
Drinks, sweets, and Indo-chinese
are also often found in the North. Indochinese food is a mix of Indian and
Chinese food. Dishes like gobi
manchurian (a dish with cauliflower and
a special sauce), orange paneer (like
orange chicken but with paneer), and
vegetarian noodles are indo-chinese.
Popular drinks are lassi (a milkshake
made with yogurt), and tea . Gulab
jamun (Indian dumpling), halwa ( a dish
with a vegetable boiled with milk,
almonds, sugar, butter, and cardamom),
kulfi (indian icecream), jalebi (like sugary
wheat pretzels), rasmalai (creamy
dumplings soaked in milk), kheer (indian
rice pudding), besan ladoo (besan means
chickpea flour and ladoo is a sweet
shaped like a ball), and phirni (almost
same thing as kheer) are popular North
Indian sweets. The griddle and charcoal
powered oven are tools used in North
India. The North has many similarities
and differences with the South.
SOUTH INDIAN FOOD
North Indian food is very similar
to South Indian food. For example, both
the North and the South have thalis (a
dish ordered at a restaurant that
includes a small amount of 5-10 dishes).
However the thalis might have different
dishes ingredients.
Basic ingredients are things like
spices, lentils, fruits and vegetables.
Spices like mace, sambhar powder,
At a market in South India, a
vendor displays a variety of fruits and
vegetables.
There are many indian spices. These
are just a few.
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