Indian Food

My colleagues and I are planning to eat our meals from the hotel restaurants and we will order something to take with us to eat during the 9:00pm dinner break at the office.  They have several restaurants serving both American and India food.  Andy, one of the missionaries at my church who has travelled often to India, provided me with some excellent advice including some of the dishes he recommends:

• Aloo Gobi (potato and cauliflower)
• Dosa (thin rice "pancake”, great with coconut chutney)
• Channa Puri (garbanzo beans with fried "tortillas")
• Pani Puri (garbanzo beans and potatoes inside small hard "shells”)
• Malai Kofta (vegetarian "meatballs")
• Shahi Paneer (Indian "cheese" in tomato-base sauce)
• Mung Daal (mung bean gravy usually eaten over rice)
• Samosa (fried triangular "pocket" with filling of potatoes, peas, carrot, etc.)
• Pav Bhaji (vegetable "gravy" dipped into by buns)
• Idli (round rice flour cake, common for breakfast especially in south) 
• Biryani (a bit like Chinese fried rice: a mix of rice with spices, vegetables, and a type of meat)
• Roti (like a tortilla; it becomes puri if fried)

Andy also advised me that if you are full, be sure not to eat everything on your plate. Cleaning your plate means you have not eaten enough to be full.  This is great advice because it is different from Chinese culture in which as a guest at someone’s home, if you don’t eat a lot, the host/hostess will think that you didn’t like their cooking or enjoy the food.

Based upon the following photos, let's see if you can identify the correct dish from the list above.  (Answers found below.)

[Answers: 1) Shahi Paneer; 2) Pani Puri; 3) Biryani; 4) Malai Kofta]