Achar. A spiced pickle made with vegetables and coloured yellow with turmeric. May contain fish paste.

Indian plum or ber. A plum-like fruit which is a small, sweet, reddish-black berry which fruits during the monsoon. The term is also used to describe a type of pantua, a confection which is fried to resemble this berry. There are sweet versions (narkel kul) and sour versions (topa kul). The latter are used to make pickles and chutneys.

Scrambled eggs with spices

Mango powder. A very sour flavouring agent with a slightly fruit flavour made from dried under-ripe mangoes, rather similar to tamarind in cooking.

Mango pickle made with turmeric, asafoetida, fenugreek, chillis and mustard oil.

Wholemeal flour

A semihard cheese made with water buffalo milk. It has a Gouda-like pale paste with evenly distributed small holes and is rindless. It is made in the vicinity of Mumbai. The curds are scalded.