Hindi

Terms in Hindi 451-460 of 1888

चिव्‌डा(chiwda)

[Hindi]

A mixture of cereals, nuts and spices. The best known outside India is Bombay mix.

चोले(choley)

[Hindi]

A Sikh dish of white chickpeas (US: garbanzo beans), kabuli channa, cooked to a cream consistency with several spices.

choley bature

[Hindi]

A Sikh dish of choley, white chickpeas (US: garbanzo beans) cooked with spices, and bhature, puffs of bread fried until golden.

choli

[Hindi]

French beans. Green beans (US: string beans).

chor magaz

[Hindi]

Melon and other seeds, usually charoli, watermelon and pumpkin, used as a thickener in Indian sweetmeats.

Chestnuts. To peel chestnuts the hard outer skins need to be slit and then the chestnuts roasted or grilled until these skins crack. They can then be peeled off and the chestnuts boiled for ten minutes, after which it should be relatively easy to rub off the inner, papery brown skin.