Hindi

[English]

Terms in Hindi 461-470 of 1888

chota murghi

[Hindi]

Free range chicken.

चोटा प्याज्‌(chota piaz)

[Hindi]

Shallot

चॊटी इलाइचि(choti elaichi)

[Hindi]

Cardamom, whether green, white or brown. The name usually refers to green cardamom.

chounk

[Hindi]

Oil or ghee (clarified butter) tempered with certain flavours or spices and onion. It is used for flavouring dahls and other dishes.

chouris

[Hindi] plural chourisam

Spicy sausages of Portuguese influence from Goa, made with marrow and chillis. I think it is made with beef casings.

chow chow pickle

[Hindi]

A pickle consisting of cauliflower and other vegetables in a thick yellow sauce of mustard, ginger and vinegar.

chow chow preserve

[Hindi]

A preserve consisting of fruit and vegetables in a thick, ginger-flavoured sweet syrup.

chowla

[Hindi]

Flaked, pressed or beaten rice.

चौली(chowli)

[Hindi]

Black eyed beans

chuamarsa

[Hindi]

Indian spinach. This is most likely to be Basella alba, a tropical climbing plant that can grow as high as 2 meters (6 ft), the leaves being harvested as the plant grows and cooked in the same way as spinach or stewed in oil with spices. It is a type of amaranth, which includes many varieties of a sweetish green leafy vegetable known by many different names, including callalloo, elephant’s ear, African/Ceylon/Chinese/Indian spinach, Surinam amaranth, etc.