Curries

🇮🇳Rajasthan, India

Dal Bati Churma

दाल बाटी चूरमा

The iconic Rajasthani meal of baked wheat balls, lentil curry, and sweet crushed wheat. It is rich and served with ghee.

🇮🇳Punjab, India

Dal Makhani

दाल मखनी

A rich, creamy black lentil curry from Punjab, slow-cooked with butter and cream. It is one of North India's most famous lentil dishes.

🇮🇳India

Dal Pakhori

दाल पखोरी

Lentil batter is seasoned, shaped, and fried into crisp pakhori served with chutney or curry.

🇲🇴Macao

Devil's Curry

Diabo

Famous rich, spicy Macanese dish of mixed meats; traditionally served on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany; uses leftovers from Christmas and New Year; roast meats such as chicken, turkey, duck, pheasant, lamb, and beef; two opinions on its name: so many meats and condiments that it is the very Devil, or so called because of its hot spices.

🇲🇾Malacca, Malaysia

Devil's Curry

Kari debal

Eurasian curry of leftover roast meats stewed with candlenut, vinegar, mustard seed and a great deal of dried chilli, traditionally eaten at Christmas.

🇮🇳West Bengal, India

Doi Maach

দই মাছ

Bengali fish curry cooked in yogurt with mustard and spices.

🇧🇩Chattogram Division, Bangladesh

Domachha

দোমাছা

Fresh fish and dried fish are cooked together with seasonal vegetables in the Chattogram, Feni, and Noakhali tradition.

🇩🇲Dominica

Dominican Curried Goat

Curried Goat

Goat meat curried with local spices, onions, and potatoes; a popular dish in Dominica; reflects the East Indian influence on the island's cuisine; served with roti or rice; the curried goat of Dominica; a Caribbean-Indian fusion; a hearty, spicy main dish.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Dried Fish Curry

শুঁটকি শিরা

Sun-dried fish rehydrated and cooked hard with onion, garlic, chilli and often taro stem or aubergine into a pungent, fiery dish.

🇬🇾Guyana

Duck Curry

Duck cut small on the bone and curried hard with green seasoning, wiri wiri pepper and a long, dark stew until the meat falls off.

🇨🇰Cook Islands

Eke Takare

Octopus boiled until tender, then simmered in a fragrant curry sauce with coconut cream, curry powder, onion, garlic, and soy sauce; a familiar Cook Islands seafood curry often served with rice or taro.

🇮🇳Kerala, India

Erissery

എരിശ്ശേരി

Pumpkin or plantain is simmered with coconut and cumin, then finished with a toasted coconut tempering in Kerala.

🇫🇯Fiji

Fijian Lamb Curry

Lamb curry

Imported lamb flaps cooked down with masala, tomato and potato into a very rich, fatty curry.

🇵🇭Mindanao, Philippines

Filipino Rendang

Riyandang

A Maranao version of Indonesian rendang, slow-cooked beef in coconut milk and spices from Mindanao.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Fish Amok

អាម៉ុកត្រី

Steamed fish curry in a kroeung paste of lemongrass, galangal, turmeric and kaffir lime, set with coconut milk into a custard-like mousse and served in a banana leaf cup.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Fish Curry

Kari Pwason

Fresh fish cooked in coconut milk curry with ginger, garlic, curry leaves, cinnamon, turmeric, and chili; a traditional Seychellois dish; the fish varies by the day's catch — red snapper, grouper, job fish, or tuna; served with rice and chutney; a daily staple of Creole cuisine.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Fish Head Curry

Kari Kepala Ikan

Fish head cooked in tangy curry with vegetables, fresh fish head with tender meat and tangy curry, a Malaysian Indian specialty, rich and flavorful

🇫🇯Fiji

Fish Suruwa

Suruwa

Firm white fish cooked in a thin coconut-milk curry with cumin, turmeric, garam masala, tomato and chilli.

🇲🇺Mauritius

Freshwater Prawn Curry

Cari camaron

Large river prawns cooked in their shells in a light massala-and-tomato curry so the heads flavour the sauce.

🇷🇪Reunion

Goat Massale

Cabri Massalé

Spicy goat dish cooked with massalé (the local version of garam masala); goat simmered with onions, garlic, ginger, tomatoes, and the Reunionese spice blend; a TasteAtlas-listed must-try; the goat massalé that is a Reunionese specialty.

🇮🇳Andhra Pradesh, India

Gongura Mutton

గోంగూర మటన్

A spicy Andhra mutton curry cooked with gongura (sorrel) leaves. The leaves give it a tangy, earthy flavor.

🇳🇵Nepal

Gorkhali Lamb

गोरखाली खसी

Lamb is browned with ginger, garlic, chilli, and warm spices, then cooked until the sauce clings to the meat.

🇹🇭Thailand

Green Curry

แกงเขียวหวาน

Spicy-sweet coconut curry with chicken, Thai basil, eggplant, and bamboo shoots.

🇸🇧Solomon Islands

Green PawPaw Curry

Green pawpaw curry uses firm unripe papaya simmered in coconut cream with curry aromatics and served with rice or another island staple.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Curry Goat

Curry Goat

Grenadian goat curry, among the best in the Caribbean thanks to the island's bountiful spices; goat meat seasoned with fresh local herbs, spices, and a little sugar; onions, garlic, pepper, and curry powder; slow-cooked until tender; served with rice, roti, or provisions; lime pickle to bring down the heat; the signature curry of the Spice Isle.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Lambi Curry

Lambi Curry

Conch (lambi) curried with local spices, onions, and garlic; the conch is tenderized, then simmered in a rich curry sauce; a for adventurous eaters; often served with roti or rice; reflects the Indo-Caribbean influence on Grenadian cuisine; the lambi curry of the Spice Isle

🇮🇳Gujarat, India

Gujarati Kadhi

गुजराती कढ़ी

A thin, sweet-and-sour yogurt curry from Gujarat, tempered with mustard seeds and curry leaves. It is sweeter than the Punjabi version.

🇬🇾Guyana

Guyanese Chicken Curry

Curry chicken

Chicken browned in a hot pan of curry powder and masala 'chunkayed' in oil, then stewed down until the gravy clings.

🇧🇩West Bengal, Bangladesh

Hilsa in Mustard

সরষে ইলিশ

Hilsa steaks cooked in a paste of ground yellow and black mustard seed, green chilli, turmeric and mustard oil, with almost no other seasoning.

🇺🇸United States

Hobotee

A Charleston, South Carolina dish of curried beef baked in a custard with bread — a Lowcountry plantation-era recipe.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Indonesian Curry

Gulai

Indonesian curry with coconut milk and spices, can be made with various meats and vegetables.

🇱🇰Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Jaffna Crab Curry

நண்டு கறி

Whole lagoon crab cooked in a fiercely hot northern curry powder with roasted spices, tamarind and coconut milk, eaten with the hands.

🇱🇰Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Jaffna Goat Curry

ஆட்டிறைச்சி கறி

Goat on the bone cooked in the dark northern curry powder with tamarind and coconut, hot enough to make a visitor stop talking.

🇮🇳West Bengal, India

Jalfrezi

জালফ্রেজি

Meat or vegetables are stir-fried with onion, tomato, capsicum, and chilli into a quick, dry curry.

🇯🇵Japan

Japanese Curry Rice

カレーライス

Mild, thick, slightly sweet curry over rice, introduced via the British Navy in the 19th century.

🇮🇳India

Kadai Chicken

कढ़ाई चिकन

A North Indian chicken curry cooked in a kadai with bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, and kadai masala. It has a thick, spicy gravy.