10 Traditional Dishes Of Telangana You Must Try Once

Hyderabadi Biryani

Hyderabadi Biryani is an aromatic rice dish made by layering rice and meat cooked in fragrant spices. It originated in the royal kitchens of Hyderabad.

Mirchi Bajji

Mirchi Bajji is stuffed chilli fritters, a popular Telangana street food. Long green chillies are stuffed with a spice mix and dipped in batter before deep-frying.

Sarva Pindi

Sarva Pindi is savoury and crispy rice flour pancakes flavoured with spices, vegetables and herbs. The thick, coarse batter is spread on a tawa and fried like a pancake.

Pachi Pulusu

Pachi Pulusu is a unique raw tamarind soup known for its tangy and spicy taste. It balances sour tamarind pulp with aromatics like chillies, cumin and mustard seeds.

Gongura Chutney

Gongura chutney highlights the tangy Gongura/sorrel leaves sautéed with spices and makes a flavorful condiment.

Jonna Rotte

Jonna Rotte are gluten-free flatbreads made from nutritious sorghum flour instead of wheat. The dough is shaped and patted into rounds before cooking.

Gutti Vankaya Kura

Gutti Vankaya Kura features baby eggplants slit and stuffed with a spiced coconut-peanut filling, then simmered in a flavorful gravy.

Sakinalu

Sakinalu is an addictively crunchy sesame snack made by rolling thin ropes of spiced rice flour dough and deep-frying them.

Qubani Ka Meetha

Qubani Ka Meetha is an apricot dessert where the dried fruit is cooked until tender in sugar syrup and cardamom for a rich, fruity flavour.

Double Ka Meetha

Double Ka Meetha combines fried bread and sweetened milk flavoured with cardamom and rose water for a bread pudding dessert.