Glossary of frequently used dry fruits in indian recipes is listed here.
- Almond – Badam (basically used in most of indian sweets or goes well with milk as badam-milk or sometimes soaked overnight in water and had in morning. you can also make almond halwa or mango almond smoothie
- Apricot – Khubani (used in cakes, sweets. one of the famous hyderabadi recipe made from Apricot is Khubani Ka Meetha.)
- Cashewnuts – Kaju (used in most of indian sweets, special cashewnut based burfi called ‘kaju katli‘ and in goa, cashew fruits are used to make a special liquor called feni.)
- Dates – Khajoor (usually eaten directly or added in cakes or sweets. There is a indian sweet chutney which is made from dates and tamarinds and usually had with chaat recipes like aloo tikki, sev puri, bhel puri etc)
- Dried Figs – Anjeer (Used in Ice Creams, Milk Shake, Kulfi, Smoothie, Parfait)
- Walnuts – Akhrot (usually added to cakes and also eaten directly)
- Peanuts – Moongphali (usually used in making savory dishes, chutneys, sometimes also added to dals/lentils and also eaten directly or can be eaten as roasted spiced peanuts)
- Pine Nuts – Chilgoze, Nioze
- Pistachios – Pista.
- Raisins – Kishmish, Munacca
- Saffron – Kesar. (One of the most expensive spices grown in kashmir and majorly used in most of indian sweets and also in rice based dishes like biryani, pulao and in making Saffron Rice).
- Water Melon seeds – Magaz. (Usually used in Sweets and Halwa). e.g. used in motichoor ladoo.
- Chirongi or Charauli – They are small rounded brownish nuts. Used in puddings, halwas or pulaos. I have not heard any english name for it.
Dry Fruits are very commonly used in indian recipes, cakes or halwas as they give rich taste to the food.
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sonu singar says
all dry fruits names thanks for you
dassana amit says
welcome sonu.
Nidhi Gupta says
Hi… love your blog ! Your gravy recipes are just awesome ! I wanted to know what is English word for manukka… Any idea?!
dassana amit says
thanks nidhi. we call raisins as manukka. hope this helps.
Nidhi Gupta says
Thanks alot !
dassana amit says
welcome nidhi.
mukesh says
munakka- sultanas
Rahul sinsinwar says
Raisin means mannuka
Currant means munakka or kismis
jabbar shaikh says
Hi, I gone through your web page, there little misunderstanding is that cashew nuts are not using to make feni, cashew fruit’s juice is used to make feni. Thanks.
dassana amit says
thanks jabbar for highlighting. i know. thats a typo from me. instead of writing cashew fruit, i wrote cashew nuts. i will correct it.
Prof.P.N.Satish says
I am browsing through the long list of recipes and some recipes caught my attention. I can comment on them when I try them. Nevertheless, most of the recipes call for a trial. Thank you for these temptig recipes.
dassana amit says
Welcome Prof.P.N.Satish
Pearl says
Charoli seeds are sunflower seeds. I just read it on another post.
dassana amit says
charoli seeds are not sunflower seeds. both are different.
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Khushi bajaj says
What is chia seeds called in hindi
dassana says
i don’t know the hindi name of chia seeds.. they are not grown in india.
Veenu says
Sabza seeds or tukmaria are chia seeds.These seeds are in falooda kulfi.
dassana amit says
sabza seeds are not chia seeds. chia seeds are different. sabza seeda are also called as tukmaria seeds. they are used in both falooda and kulfi falooda.
akshada says
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