Ingredients

Ingredients make or break a dish. Hence it is good to know how these ingredients land up in the stores for us to easily pick them up and churn out palatable dishes.

All ingredients have many health benefits along with giving out different taste and flavor to the dish.  Nature has given a bounty of ingredients to the human kind to satiate different taste buds and has made out lives more interesting.

Discovery of ingredients is a continuing process and in this section is a presentation of an amalgamation of all the goodness that nature has to offer and each of the links below has a plethora of information and photos.  Links to dishes that can be prepared using these ingredients are also provided.

Berries:
Ber
Indian Gooseberry
Jamun
Jungle Jalebi
Ker
Star Gooseberry
Strawberry

Fruits: Types of fruits
Banana
Custard Apple
Dragon Fruit
Fig
Guava
Jackfruit
Lemon
Malayan Apple
Mangoes

• Types of Mangoes

Mangosteen
Oranges
Passion Flower – Fruit
Pomegranate
Pomelo
Sapodilla
Star Fruit
Watermelon

Grains and Cereals:
Rice

• Kadalepuri

Sorghum / Jower
Wheat

Herbs:
Brahmi
Curry leaves
Holy Basil / Tulasi
Mint
Thai Basil
Marjoram

Leafy Vegetables:
Coriander leaves
Cuban Oregano
Fenugreek
Ganika Patram
Spinach
Drumstick leaves
Malabar climbing / Malabar Spinach

Names of Leafy Vegetables in English, Hindi and Kannada

Lentils:
Chikpea
Corn
Pigeon Pea

Nuts:
Groundnuts / Peanuts

Oil Seeds:
Sesame Seeds

Others:
Cheese
Coconut
Coffee
Honey
Paneer
Sugarcane

• Jaggery

Tamarind
Tea
Cashew nut

Spices:
Bay Leaf
Cardamom
Chilies
Fenugreek
Garlic
Mustard
Nutmeg
Pepper
Stone Flower

Names of spices in Hindi, English, and Kannada

Vegetables:
Beans
Beetroot
Bitter Gourd
Brinjal
Capsicum
Carrot
Chayote Squash / Seemebadanekayi
Drumstick
Lablab Bean
Okra
Onion
Ridge Gourd
Tomato