Country
What India cooks with
29 ingredients from the guide appear in the 26 catalogued dishes of India, in Asia. The most typical come first: used here often, and less so elsewhere.
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Most typical of India
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Every ingredient in India’s dishes

Banana
1 dish here

Batter
1 dish here

Besan
1 dish here

Bread roll
1 dish here

Cauliflower
1 dish here

Chickpea
2 dishes here

Chili pepper
1 dish here

Coconut
1 dish here

Coconut milk
1 dish here

Coriander seed
1 dish here

Eggplant
1 dish here

Ginger
1 dish here

Lamb meat
1 dish here

Mango
1 dish here

Milk
2 dishes here

Mustard oil
1 dish here

Mutton
1 dish here

Paneer
1 dish here

Pea
1 dish here

Peanut oil
1 dish here

Potato
1 dish here

Pumpkin
1 dish here

Rice
5 dishes here

Rice flour
3 dishes here

Saffron
1 dish here

Sugar
2 dishes here

Sweet potato
1 dish here

Wheat flour
1 dish here

Yogurt
1 dish here
Photo credits for this page (29)
Chickpea: AlixSaz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rice: Musclewingz Yueyua · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rice flour: Nithyasrm · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Milk: Santeri Viinamäki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sugar: Lauri Andler (Phantom) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Banana: Krzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Batter: Father.Jack from Coventry, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Besan: AlexanderVanLoon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bread roll: SKopp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cauliflower: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chili pepper: Takeaway · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coconut: Tom Ek · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coconut milk: Meursault2004 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coriander seed: Sanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ginger: Sanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lamb meat: Pujanak · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Mango: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Mustard oil: Biswarup Ganguly · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Mutton: Tvabutzku1234 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Paneer: Nithyasrm · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pea: David Adam Kess · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Peanut oil: KISUMAR123 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Potato: McKay Savage from London, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pumpkin: George Chernilevsky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Saffron: Hubertl · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sweet potato: Llez · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wheat flour: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Yogurt: Nithyasrm · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons