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.
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)
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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all dry fruits names thanks for you
welcome sonu.
Hi… love your blog ! Your gravy recipes are just awesome ! I wanted to know what is English word for manukka… Any idea?!
thanks nidhi. we call raisins as manukka. hope this helps.
Thanks alot !
welcome nidhi.
munakka- sultanas
Raisin means mannuka Currant means munakka or kismis
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.
thanks jabbar for highlighting. i know. thats a typo from me. instead of writing cashew fruit, i wrote cashew nuts. i will correct it.
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.
Welcome Prof.P.N.Satish
Charoli seeds are sunflower seeds. I just read it on another post.
charoli seeds are not sunflower seeds. both are different.
i like all your adds kept and and they way your web provides us ans
What is chia seeds called in hindi
i don’t know the hindi name of chia seeds.. they are not grown in india.
Sabza seeds or tukmaria are chia seeds.These seeds are in falooda kulfi.
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.
i am loving to read what is written
hello dear sir madam
i m babak from behtak company in iran . our factory is very big which export the best quality of sultana raisin & green raisin to euro and asia . we are looking for new markets in south asia so please if you are interested in raisin from iran inform me . i m stay in bangalore city in south of south asia now and my email is : [email protected] my tel: 00919886706747
our CIF prices for and our package is 10 kilo & 12.5 kilo with best quality
all dry fruits names thanks for you
welcome sonu.
Hi… love your blog ! Your gravy recipes are just awesome ! I wanted to know what is English word for manukka… Any idea?!
thanks nidhi. we call raisins as manukka. hope this helps.
Thanks alot !
welcome nidhi.
munakka- sultanas
Raisin means mannuka
Currant means munakka or kismis
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.
thanks jabbar for highlighting. i know. thats a typo from me. instead of writing cashew fruit, i wrote cashew nuts. i will correct it.
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.
Welcome Prof.P.N.Satish
Charoli seeds are sunflower seeds. I just read it on another post.
charoli seeds are not sunflower seeds. both are different.
i like all your adds kept and and they way your web provides us ans
What is chia seeds called in hindi
i don’t know the hindi name of chia seeds.. they are not grown in india.
Sabza seeds or tukmaria are chia seeds.These seeds are in falooda kulfi.
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.
i am loving to read what is written
hello dear sir madam
i m babak from behtak company in iran .
our factory is very big which export the best quality of sultana raisin & green raisin to euro and asia .
we are looking for new markets in south asia so please if you are interested in raisin from iran inform me .
i m stay in bangalore city in south of south asia now and my email is : [email protected]
my tel: 00919886706747
our CIF prices for and our package is 10 kilo & 12.5 kilo with best quality