Party Menus - Indian Starters and Puddings

Indian Starters and Desserts

Indian Starters
Either served on a plate to seated diners
or on a platter at a stand-up situation:

Choose your party starter course as follows:
• Pick two starter dishes coloured red
• Plus pick two starter dishes coloured green
• Plus pick two starter dishes coloured blue
And you have your starter course at the prices below.

Choose two protein starters from those listed below in red:
Goan Crab ~ brown and white crab meat, mixed with yoghurt and tandoori spices
Jeera chicken ~ A chunk of chicken breast stir-ried in butter with cumin (jeera) as the only spice
Jungli Maas ~ A chunk of lamb stir-fried in butter with red chilli
Keema Curry Puffs ~ Little puff-pastry parcel containing curried minced beef and carrot
Samosa, Meat ~ The triangular pastry with mince beef curry (Keema) and peas
Satay, Indian style ~ Pieces of chicken or beef are marinated in a curry/peanut base and are grilled
Sheek Kebab ~ oven-baked kebab (c3cm) made with spices, garlic, ginger, cashew, spices, fresh coriander and mint leaves. (Chicken or Lamb)
Tikka Sweet Chilli Chicken ~ chicken chunk stir-fried in an Indian sweet chilli sauce
Tikka Malai ~ cream/garlic-marinated baked chunk (Chicken or Lamb)
Tikka Red ~ red-marinated baked chunk. (Chicken or Lamb)
Tikka Green ~ herb-marinated baked chunk. (Chicken or Lamb)

Duck Tikkas in place of Chicken or Lamb ~ 50p per diner extra
King Prawn in place of chicken in Tikka Sweet Chilli Chicken~ 50p per diner extra

Choose two vegetable starters from those listed below in green
Aloo Achar ~ Potatoes (new if in season) in pickle-flavoured curry. (2 per diner)
Chestnut Tikka ~ A whole sweet chestnut, smothered in a sweet pickle of Brinjal (aubergine)
Goan Spring Roll ~ Shredded papaya, carrot, cabbage, chilli and coconut filling
Oonbariou ~ Lightly spiced baked root vegetable chunks (2 per diner)
Paneer Sag Samosa ~ The triangular pastry with Indian cheese, spinach and garlic filling
Patra ~ Colcasia leaf, wrapped with gramflour paste like a Swiss-roll then fried to create a bite-size chunk
Vegetable Curry Puff ~ Little puff-pastry parcel containing curried vegetables
Vegetable Samosa ~ The triangular pastry with spiced mashed potato and peas filling
Vegetable Shashlik Kebab ~ Spiced vegetables on a skewer with onion and peppers
Mini Popadoms ~ 8 x 2.5cm mini popadoms per diner

Choose any two starter chutneys from those listed below in blue
Coconut Chutney ~ Mustard seeds, curry leaves, chilli and desiccated coconut
Cucumber Raitha ~ Natural yoghurt blended with cucumber juliennes and garam masala. Mild
Imli (Tamarind) Chutney ~ Fresh dates, tamarind, chillies and garam masala spices are puréed
Mixed Pickle ~ the type you find at the Indian restaurant. Lime, mango,and aubergine mixed together and puréed
Indian Peanut Satay Sauce ~ Peanut with Indian spices. Goes well with Satays and everything else
Pineapple Chutney ~ Home-made. Cubes of fresh pineapple are simmered in a syrup and cider vinegar, flavoured with minced garlic, chilli, cassia bark and whole dried chillies
Podina ~ Beloved by all Indians, a purée of mint and coriander leaves with green chilli and coconut milk
Sweet Mango Chutney ~ The nation’s favourite
Sweet Tomato Chutney ~ Home-made. Ripe tomatoes in a syrup with garlic, nigella seeds and a hint of chilli

Price: Starter Plate:
up to 40 diners ~ £7 per diner
up to 60 diners ~ £6.50 per diner
up to 80 diners ~ £6 per diner
over 80 diners ~ £5 per diner
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Add this healthy, gorgeous looking and tasting option to your starter:
Moong Chana Salat with Toddy Vinegar ~ 50p per diner extra
Lentils (such as moong, lobia, chickpeas, urid) and fenugreek seeds are home-sprouted (it takes 5 days). Just before service, they are combined with plump quartered cherry tomatoes, thinly sliced red onion, halved juicy strawberries, cubed golden alphonso mango, honeydew or cantaloupe melon balls, cracked black peppercorns and the freshest coriander leaves, all tossed in a Goan toddy vinegar dressing. Served cold. Very colourful and nutritious and very popular.
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Indian Desserts

Diners may feel full at this stage so we make sure our desserts are light and fresh and easy eating. Pick one dessert.

Banana Fritter ~ mashed with nutmeg and cardamom then battered, fried,and served with creme fraishe.   £2.50 per person
Deep-fried Kulfi ~ Not practical for more than 30 diners but a treat for those who have it. Vanilla Kulfi icecream is wrapped in a filo-pastry parcel, deep-fried, dusted with icing sugar and served fast with a lime wedge. £2.50 per person
Fruit Satay ~ What a great pudding it makes for your party. Cubes of fresh fruit are skewered, glazed with palm sugar syrup. We use firm fruit with contrasting colours. Nice with apples, nectarines, peaches, mango, banana, kiwi fruit, etc, and if possible use star fruit for dramatic effect. It is lightly grilled and serve hot to table with creme fraishe or ice cream. One skewer per diner £2.50 per person
Gajjar Halva ~ Gujarati Sweet Carrot Pudding ~ Made from jaggery (palm sugar) clarified butter milk and carrot, and tasting much better than it sounds! Served hot, garnished with pistachio and with creme fraishe.
£1.50 per person
Gulab Jamun with Jalebi ~ Gulab Jamun – Golden Globes, literally meaning ‘rosy plum’, referring to it’s shape. Balls of curd-cheese paneer are deep-fried to golden, to achieve a cake-like texture and served cold in light syrup, topeed with Jalebi – Syrup-drenched crispy spirals – curly, crisp, sticky golden spirals of deep-fried batter drenched in sticky syrup. £2 per person
Kesari Srikand ~ Saffron Yoghurt Syllabub ~ Ground almonds, double cream and thick natural yoghurt whipped together to create a creamy syllabub, flavoured with saffron stamens and cardamom and freshly grated nutmeg. Served cold, ideally in a stemmed glass.   £1 per person
Mango Surprise ~ A syllabub or smoothie of yogurt, cream and mango purée topped of with sliced mangoes in syrup. Served cold, ideally in a stemmed glass.   £1 per person
Moyra Banana  ~ Moyra is a Goan town and this is their pudding. A heated sweet and syrupy sauce made from jaggery (palm sugar) and butter ghee, chopped nuts, dates and golden sultanas, flavoured with cardamom is poured over banana, and served with creme fraishe.   £1.50 per person
Patishapta Pitha ~ Bangladeshi Sweet Pancakes ~ Not practical for more than 30 diners. Pancakes filled with whipped soft cream cheese and thick soured cream, sweetened with sugar and spiced with cardamom and grated nutmeg, dusted with icing sugar. Served cold with hot date palm and pomegranate. £2.50 per person

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