Dishes made with ghee
55 dishes from around the world that list ghee as a main ingredient.
Biryani
🇮🇳 India and 5 moreRice and spiced meat or vegetables layered and cooked together
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Naanनान
🇮🇳 India and 5 moreLeavened flatbread baked in a tandoor or on a pan, soft and spotted with golden brown
Bread, Lunch, Dinner
Paratha
🇮🇳 India and 5 moreLayered flatbread from the Indian subcontinent, often fried and sometimes stuffed
Bread, Breakfast, Lunch
Korma
🇮🇳 India and 4 moreA rich curry of meat or vegetables simmered in yogurt and spices
Stew or curry, Lunch, Dinner
Chicken tikkaMeat
🇵🇰 Pakistan and 2 moreBoneless chicken pieces marinated in yogurt and spices, cooked in a tandoor oven
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
MansafMeatمنسف
🇯🇴 Jordan and 3 moreLamb cooked in fermented yogurt sauce, served over rice and flatbread
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
HaleemMeat
🇮🇳 India and 7 moreA slow-cooked stew of wheat, lentils, meat and spices
Stew or curry, Breakfast, Lunch
Hyderabadi biryani
🇮🇳 IndiaBasmati rice and spiced meat cooked together in the Hyderabad style
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Dal makhaniVegetarian
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreCreamy black lentils slow-cooked with butter and spices
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Puran PoliVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaSweet stuffed flatbread enjoyed at festivals and special occasions in India
Bread, Lunch, Dinner
SheermalVegetarianشیرمال
🇮🇷 Iran and 2 moreA sweet, saffron-scented flatbread made with milk and cardamom
Bread, Breakfast, Lunch
Sarson ka saagVegetarian
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMustard greens cooked with spices, a winter dish from Punjab
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Shahi paneerVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaPaneer cubes in a rich, creamy tomato and spice sauce
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Bisi bele bathVegetarianಬಿಸಿ ಬೇಳೆ ಭಾತ್
🇮🇳 IndiaSpiced rice and lentils cooked with vegetables and aromatic masala
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
AkhniMeatআখনী
🇧🇩 BangladeshSpiced rice cooked with meat, vegetables and yoghurt from eastern Bangladesh
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
LuchiVegetarian
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreCrisp, deep-fried flatbread made with white flour and ghee
Bread, Breakfast, Lunch
Double ka meethaVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaSweet fried bread soaked in syrup and topped with nuts, from Hyderabad
Sweet or dessert, Dinner
Dal baatiVegetarianदालभात
🇮🇳 IndiaLentil stew served with hard wheat rolls, a classic meal of western India
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
ChurmaVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaCoarse wheat or millet crushed with ghee and sugar or jaggery
Sweet or dessert, Lunch, Dinner
Tehri
🇮🇳 IndiaSpiced yellow rice cooked with vegetables, lentil dumplings and sometimes meat
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Lamprais
🇱🇰 Sri LankaRice, meat curry and sides wrapped in banana leaf and baked
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tehri: Miansari66, CC0, source
- Sheermal: Pranaykuma12, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hyderabadi biryani: Dheerajk88, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Paratha: Wagaung at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Biryani: Shyamveer.singh1982, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Korma: Miansari66, CC0, source
- Chicken tikka: kspoddar, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Mansaf: Abdulla aljammal, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Haleem: Miansari66, Public domain, source
- Dal makhani: Charles Haynes, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Puran Poli: No machine-readable author provided. Pamri assumed (based on copyright, Public domain, source
- Sarson ka saag: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source
- Churma: Ravinder Narwal, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Shahi paneer: Shashank7200, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Double ka meetha: Miansari66, CC0, source
- Bisi bele bath: Food and Remedy, LLC, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Akhni: এম আবু সাঈদ, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Luchi: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source
- Dal baati: Devika, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Lamprais: Nirangunam, CC BY-SA 4.0, source