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20 Spicy Indian Recipes For Monsoons

There is a famous joke about Indians and their food habits. Westerners often joke that Indians eat even chocolates with red chilli flakes as the topping!Love of spicy food is in our genes. That is why; spicy Indian recipes are often the most popular ones. Any season is a good time to enjoy these recipes but during Monsoons, they take on a different flavour. The beauty and experience of Monsoon rains is diminished without spicy Indian dishes to accompany it.

16 MONSOON RECIPES THAT ALL INDIANS LOVE

The best spicy Indian recipes come from specific pockets of India. For example, Andhra is a state that is known for making really spicy food. Then we have Rajasthan that is a state famous for its red chillies. In the Eastern parts of India, mustard and green chillies are more widely used for making food spicy.

So if you are looking for some lunch recipes this afternoon, we can give you the perfect selection of recipes for Monsoon. These are some hand picked spicy Indian recipes from Boldsky to add some spice to your life.

Mirch Ke Pakore

Mirch Ke Pakore

Mirch ke pakode are of the most spicy and lip-smacking snack recipe that you can try in this season. The long green chillies are usually used for this pakora recipe. But you can also use the long red chillies provided you de-seed it properly. Read more

Spicy Fried Chicken Legs

Spicy Fried Chicken Legs

This is a spicy fried chicken recipe legs recipe that is both easy and quick. You should be able to give your family a nice treat with this Indian recipe fried chicken legs. The recipe is extremely basic in nature. And as the spicy fried chicken legs recipe has a video with it, it is completely a cakewalk to make it easily. Read more

Andhra Rasam

Andhra Rasam

Andhra rasam is made with tomatoes and a lot of spice.This rasam is obviously much spicier than the other rasams you might have tasted. Read more

Dal Ghost

Dal Ghost

This spicy dal gosht, as the name suggests, is a combination of three things- fragrant spices, lentils and the mutton. The mutton is first cooked along with the spices which adds spicy flavour to the dish. Then it is cooked with the dal which not only adds to the consistency of the curry but also gives it a unique, lip-smacking taste. Read more

Chicken Pepper Fry

Chicken Pepper Fry

The main flavor in the Chicken pepper fry recipe is obviously 'pepper'. However, the subsidiary spices in Chicken pepper fry like curry leaves, dried red chillies, green chillies are equally if not more important to add the 'Indian' factor to the dish. Read more

Spicy Tomato Pappu

Spicy Tomato Pappu

This dal recipe can be cooked in two ways. You can either pressure cook the dal and then season it. You can also make tomato pappu by seasoning the raw dal in the pressure cooker and then cooking it. The second method of making tomato pappu will take the sting out of dry red chillies. This is a quicker method of making tomato pappu. Read more

Maccher Jhaal

Maccher Jhaal

The spicy version of Bengali fish curry recipe or machcher jhaal recipe is usually reserved for smaller fish such as telapia, pabda, tangra etc. Machcher jhaal is a spicy dish because the word 'jhaal' literally means 'spicy' in Bengali. Read more

Hot & Spicy Chilli Paneer

Hot & Spicy Chilli Paneer

Originally, Chinese food is bland and uses very less spices. But when the Chinese cuisine blends with the Indian taste, it gets completely altered to a delicious new Indo-Chinese dish. One of the favourite among these Indo-Chinese dishes is chilli paneer. Chilli paneer is relished by almost everyone, irrespective of whether you are a vegetarian or non vegetarian. Read more

Spicy Dhania Vada

Spicy Dhania Vada

The spicy dhaniya vadas are quite easy to make and takes very less time. Coriander leaves is one ingredient which you find lying around in your refrigerator all the time. All you have to do is mix it up with a few more ingredients and you can treat yourself with a tasty snack recipe in no time. Read more

Laal Maas

Laal Maas

Lal Maas literally means 'red meat'. This dish gets its name from its blazing red colour and extreme spiciness. This Indian curry is a recipe for the royals. The mutton curry used to be the treat of the royal kitchens in Rajputana. It was usually prepared after a particularly successful hunting session. Read more

Hyderabadi Dum Biriyani

Hyderabadi Dum Biriyani

Hyderabad is famous for the chicken dum biriyani and today we shall tell you how to go about with the tasty chicken dum biriyani recipe. Dum biryani is rice and meat cooked together with spices in a pot sealed with dough. Read more

Dhaba Style Chiken Curry

Dhaba Style Chiken Curry

Dhaba recipes like dal tadka, chicken curry and rice are favourites among travellers. If you love to prepare the spicy dhaba style dishes, then here is a special chicken curry recipe. This chicken recipe is prepared in the dhaba style. The recipe is made with aromatic Indian spices and the gravy is delicious too. Read more

Dal Bati

Dal Bati

Dal Bati is the pride of Marwari food. Call it unhealthy or fattening, there is nothing to beat the taste of this dal recipe. This Rajasthani recipe is based on the needs of a very rough and dry climate. Read more

Mirch Ka Salan

Mirch Ka Salan

Mirch ka salan is hundred percent vegetarian and two hundred percent spicy. So, you must pick this dish only if you have tolerance or very hot food. The spiciness in this green chili curry is countered by the coconut gravy in which it is cooked. Read more

Prawns In Green Chilli Curry

Prawns In Green Chilli Curry

The green colour of this curry is due to many reasons. Green chilli prawns uses no red chilli powder or tomatoes. Instead plenty of green chillies are used in this prawn curry to make it spicy. Apart from that, green chilli prawns also contain pudhina and coriander chutney. Read more

Coorgi Fried Chicken

Coorgi Fried Chicken

Coorgi fried chicken is a recipe soaked in this masala and then stir fried. You can make this fried chicken recipe as a side dish with dal and rice. This recipe is made with the special vinegar made in Coorg.This region is also famous for being home to some of the best quality spices in India. Read more

Andhra Mutton Curry

Andhra Mutton Curry

It is relatively simple to make Andhra style mutton curry. This mutton curry recipe requires you to cook the mutton and the gravy separately at first; that is the only trick. You can easily try this Andhra recipe at home even if you do not belong to this region. Read more

Fried Green Chillies

Fried Green Chillies

Fried green chillies recipes like chilli bonda, bharwa mirchi (stuffed green chillies) are very popular in the Indian cuisine. You can find fried green chillies in between the street food Vada pav or as a side dish with meals in Indian cuisine. The best part about this side dish is, the fried green chillies recipes are easy and can be prepared within 20 minutes! Read more

Pork Vindaloo

Pork Vindaloo

This pork vindaloo recipe is actually of Portuguese origin and in the original recipe wine is used. But, we will replace wine with vinegar in this recipe. Pork vindaloo can be prepared very easily and will surely be appreciated by your family. The main ingredients that you will need for this curry recipe is pork, vinegar, dried red chillies, ginger, garlic etc. Read more

Mutton Roganjosh

Mutton Roganjosh

The authentic version of mutton rogan josh was prepared without onions and garlic. The special flavour to the curry was added by asafoetida and a special herb called 'Ratanjot'. But since it is not easy to find the herb everywhere, this ingredient has been omitted now. Instead Kashmri red chilly powder is used to get the red colour. Read more

Story first published: Friday, August 1, 2014, 12:48 [IST]