List of Indian snack foods

List of Indian snack foods

Indian cuisine is renowned for its diverse and flavorful snack foods, which vary significantly across different regions of the country. These snacks are often enjoyed as appetizers, street food, or light meals. Below is a list of popular Indian snack foods:

Savory Snacks

• Samosa: A fried or baked pastry with a savory filling, such as spiced potatoes, onions, peas, or lentils. It is often served with chutney.
• Pakora: A fritter made by deep-frying vegetables, meat, or paneer coated in a spiced gram flour batter.
• Bhaji: A spicy Indian snack similar to pakora, often made with onions (onion bhaji) or other vegetables.
• Chaat: A broad category of savory snacks typically served at roadside tracks from stalls or food carts. Popular varieties include Pani Puri, Bhel Puri, and Aloo Tikki.
• Dhokla: A fermented steamed cake made from rice and chickpea batter, originating from the state of Gujarat.
• Vada: A category of savory fried snacks from South India, often made from lentils or potatoes. Popular varieties include Medu Vada and Batata Vada.
• Kachori: A spicy snack from North India, consisting of a round, flattened ball made of fine flour filled with a stuffing of baked mixture of yellow moong dal or urad dal.
• Murukku: A crunchy South Indian snack made from rice flour and urad dal flour, seasoned with sesame seeds, cumin seeds, and ajwain.

Sweet Snacks

• Jalebi: A sweet, spiral-shaped snack made by deep-frying batter and soaking it in sugar syrup.
• Ladoo: A ball-shaped sweet made from flour, ghee, and sugar, often flavored with cardamom or other spices.
• Gulab Jamun: A popular dessert made from milk solids, which are kneaded into a dough, fried, and soaked in sugar syrup.
• Barfi: A dense, milk-based sweet confectionery, often flavored with fruits or nuts.
• Rasgulla: A syrupy dessert popular in the Indian subcontinent, made from ball-shaped dumplings of chhena (an Indian cottage cheese) and semolina dough, cooked in light syrup made of sugar.

Regional Specialties

• Pav Bhaji: A fast food dish from Maharashtra consisting of a thick vegetable curry served with a soft bread roll.
• Misal Pav: A popular dish from Maharashtra made of spicy curry usually made of sprouted moth beans and served with bread or rolls.
• Dabeli: A snack food of India, originating in the Kutch region of Gujarat, made by mixing boiled potatoes with a special dabeli masala and putting the mixture in a ladi pav (burger bun).
• Puttu: A traditional breakfast dish from Kerala, made of steamed cylinders of ground rice layered with coconut.
• Kothu Parotta: A popular street food from Tamil Nadu, made by stir-frying shredded parotta with vegetables, eggs, or meat.

Related Pages

• Indian cuisine
• Street food of India
• List of Indian dishes
• List of Indian sweets and desserts
• Cuisine of Gujarat
• Cuisine of Maharashtra
• Cuisine of Kerala
• Cuisine of Tamil Nadu