
Lamb Nihari
The Mughal-Pakistani slow-cooked lamb shank stew: meat braised for hours in a spice-thick gravy of ginger, garlic…
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The Mughal-Pakistani slow-cooked lamb shank stew: meat braised for hours in a spice-thick gravy of ginger, garlic…

BIR lamb saag is the restaurant version of the classic Punjabi saag gosht, a bright green spinach-based curry that pairs…

Madrasi masala paste represents the very hot end of British-Indian curry pastes

This is mapo tofu without the pork, where the dried shiitake mushroom steps in and does most of the heavy lifting

A Cambodian banana flower salad, the kind of bright herby starter that opens a Khmer meal

This classic Thai dish of noodles is both aromatic and lightly spicy, serving well as either a main course or a starter

Chicken chilli masala is a relatively modern entry on the British restaurant menu, sitting somewhere between a jalfrezi…

The jalfrezi is one of the defining BIR curries, found on every restaurant menu in the country and arguably the most…

Chicken rezala is a Mughlai dish associated with Kolkata's Muslim-quarter restaurants, traditionally a delicate…

Garlic chilli chicken sits in the medium-hot end of the BIR menu, distinguished by two things: heavily browned sliced…

Karahi takes its name from the deep, wok-shaped pan it's traditionally cooked in, a thick metal bowl that heats hard and…

"Laal" is Hindi for red, and the dish lives up to the name

"Achari" means "of pickle", the dish is built around Indian-style pickles (achaar) as a flavouring agent rather than a condiment

Lavastorm belongs to the rarefied corner of the BIR menu shared with phaal, naga, and the various house-named "hottest…

Bhuna and naga sit on opposite ends of the BIR temperament chart

A British-Indian-Restaurant standard, built on a base of cold, fully-dried basmati so the grains stay separate under high heat