Indo-Chinese: Manchurian & chilli chicken: The Chinese cooking of Kolkata's Hakka community as adapted to Indian tastes: battered cauliflower or chicken tossed in a garlicky, soy-and-chili "Manchurian" sauce, chilli chicken or paneer with green chili and peppers, Hakka noodles and "Schezwan" fried rice. A cuisine of its own, and a fixture of most Indian restaurants' appetizer pages. On this menu as: Schezwan Lollipop · Schezwan Chicken Crispy · Schezwan Veg Crispy.
Paneer: Fresh, unaged cheese made by curdling hot milk with lemon or vinegar and pressing the curds into a firm block. It does not melt, so it can be grilled (tikka), fried, or simmered in gravies, and it is the standard vegetarian protein on North Indian menus. On this menu as: Paneer 65 · Paneer Fried Rice · Paneer Schezwan Fried Rice.
Aloo, gobi, bhindi, baingan, matar: The vegetable vocabulary of a North Indian menu: aloo is potato, gobi cauliflower, bhindi okra, baingan eggplant (bharta is roasted and mashed), matar peas, jeera cumin. Malai kofta are dumplings of paneer and potato in a creamy gravy. "Aloo gobi" is potato and cauliflower; "matar paneer" peas and paneer, and so on. The name is the recipe. On this menu as: Gobi 65 · Gobi Chilli · Gobi Chilli Garlic.
Kathi roll & frankie: A paratha (often egg-washed on the griddle) rolled around kebab, tikka or paneer with onion, chutney and lime. Kolkata's kathi roll and Mumbai's frankie are the same idea. The Indian wrap. On this menu as: Chicken Spring Rolls (2 pc) · Veg Spring Rolls (2 pc).
Tandoori: Cooked in a tandoor, a deep, charcoal- or gas-fired clay oven that reaches very high heat. Tandoori chicken is bone-in pieces marinated in yogurt, lemon, ginger-garlic and spices (the red color is mostly Kashmiri chili or food coloring), skewered and roasted until charred. Naan is slapped onto the same oven's walls. On this menu as: Tandoori Chicken Fried Rice.
Chaat: The tangy, crunchy, sweet-sour-spicy family of Indian street snacks: crisp bases (papdi wafers, puffed rice for bhel, potato patties for aloo tikki chaat) piled with chickpeas, yogurt, tamarind and mint chutneys, chaat masala, onion and sev (crunchy chickpea-flour threads). Meant to be eaten immediately, before it goes soft. On this menu as: Veg Chinese Bhel.

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Fried ricetypically $13.99 across 404 menus
Egg rolltypically $7.40 across 309 menus
Tandooritypically $16.95 across 307 menus
Chaattypically $9 across 275 menus

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