Achar. A spiced pickle made with vegetables and coloured yellow with turmeric. May contain fish paste.
Dry ginger. Used very commonly with onion in onion-ginger paste - base for many sauces for fish preparations
Poppy seeds, from the seed of the opium poppy. They are improved by roasting and are used for thickening curries instead of cornflours or other starches.
A consommé-like stock, strong and spicy, flavoured with fried onion, coriander (US: cilantro) seed, fennel seed, chopped red pepper, garlic or ginger and then reduced. Typically it is used for steaming rice and vegetables.
