Lost Flavors of India: Top 7 Must-Try Dishes

A lost recipe from undivided Punjab. This dish combines two ingredients of punjabi cuisine - chicken and cholay

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This is famous dish origin in Bihar and UP. Making it, wheat flour dumplings are immersed halfway in arhar dal curry

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It is considered a royal dish of Maharashtra, because nowhere in Indian cuisine variations of this food are posh but in Maharashtra

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In Tripura, steamed rice cakes wrapped in Lairu leaves with Guria have a unique, aromatic flavor

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Rampur’s mutton dish uses a unique cooking technique for gelatinous stock and smooth gravy, creating a memorable flavor burst

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This Gujarati winter dish is a bajra pancake made with bajra flour, herbs, spices, curd, sesame seeds and baking soda

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Chef Pawan Bisht's post: Beru roti is a whole wheat roti stuffed with a coarse mix of urad lentils, spices, garlic, ginger, and green chillies

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