Conical pastry filled with delicately spiced potatoes and peas. Cooked and served with tamarind sauce.
Onion bhajjia - divine $9.90
Finely chopped onion, mixed with chickpea flour batter. Cooked and served with tamarind sauce.
Garlic prawn - fat buster $16.90
Prawns marinated in spices. Cooked with garlic and served with mint sauce.
Shahi cigar - politically incorrect but delectable $11.90
Finely chopped chicken mixed with subtle spices, fresh coriander and green chillies. Stuffed in a cigar shaped pastry. Served with tamarind sauce.
Chicken tikka - boneless tandoori dish $11.90
Boneless Chicken thighs marinated with yoghurt, ginger and spices for over a day, and then barbecued. Served with mint sauce.
Punjabi lamb - robust $11.90
Lamb marinated in robust spices and sautéed with capsicum, onions and tomatoes. Finished with fresh coriander and served on a bed of lettuce.
Mixed platter - delicious variety of entrees for two diners $20.90
Samosa, Shahi Cigar, Onion Bhajjia, Chicken Tikka. Served with mint and tamarind sauce.
MAINS
Chicken mughlai - mild dish $20.90
Chicken cooked in cashew nut sauce with aromatic spices, garnished with coriander.
Butter chicken - most popular $21.90
Boneless tandoori chicken cooked with a sumptuous sauce of tomatoes, fresh coriander and spices. small - $14.00 / large - 20.90
Chicken tikka masala(GF) - English special $20.90
Boneless chicken cooked in lightly spiced sauce with capsicum, ginger & fresh coriander.
Chicken curry (GF) - fat free S $14.00 /L $20.90
Chicken marinated in spices and then cooked in a home style curry.
Chicken jalfrezi - sumptuous $20.90
Chicken marinated in spices, ginger and garlic. Finished with tomatoes, chunks of capsicum and onions.
Mango chicken - exotic $20.90
Chicken cooked in delicately spiced mango sauce.
Tandoori chicken - healthy S $16.00/L $25.00
Skinless chicken marinated in spices for over a day and then cooked in tandoor. Served with mint sauce.
Fish makhanwala - synchronised swimmers $21.90
Fillet of fish delicately cooked with ginger, garlic, onions, tomatoes, yoghurt and aromatic spices.
Prawn malabari - kiwi favourite $26.00
Shelled prawns cooked in an exotic sauce of tomatoes, dried whole coriander, mustard seed and spices. Finished with coconut cream and garnished with fresh coriander.
Kadai gosht - bank managers favourite $20.90
Lean lamb delicately cooked with exotic spices and finished with capsicum and onion. Garnished with fresh ginger and coriander. (Dairy Free)
Akbari gosht S $14.00/L $20.90
Succulent lean lamb dish cooked with yoghurt and spices and finished with nuts. Garnished with fresh coriander.
Saag gosht – romantic interlude $21.90
Lean lamb cooked with tomatoes, robust spices and spinach.
Rogan josh(GF) - chefs speciality S $14.00/L $20.90
Traditional lean lamb dish in a tomato gravy with spices.
Beef vindaloo - ring burner $20.90
Prepared the traditional way- beef cooked in a hot, fiery and spicy sauce.
FROM THE GARDEN
Tadka dhal - staple food S $14.00/L $18.90
Yellow split cooked and tempered with garlic, onion, mustard seeds finished with coriander.
Vegetable curry - vegan special
Seasonal vegetables cooked in a lightly spiced gravy with tomatoes.
Mushroom & pea curry - magic $18.90
Mushrooms and peas cooked beautifully with light spices.
Pea panir S $14.00/L $18.90
Peas and panir cooked in tomato based curry.
Saag panir $19.90
Spinach pureed and cooked with delicate spices and panir.
RICE DISHES
Chicken or lamb biryani $22.00
Northern Indian dish of rice cooked with chicken or lamb, cashew nuts and raisins.
Vegetable biryani $21.00
Northern Indian dish of rice cooked with vegetables, cashew nuts and raisins.
BREADS
Roti - wholemeal bread. $3.50
Buttered nan $4.00
Standard flour kneaded into a dough with yoghurt, eggs, yeast and baked in tandoor.
Garlic nan $5.00
Same as buttered nan, with garlic.
Cheese nan $6.00
Same as buttered nan, stuffed with cheese.
Peshawari nan $6.00
Nan stuffed with nuts and raisins.
Masala kulcha $6.00
Nan stuffed with potatoes and spices.
Shahi nan $6.50
Freshly cooked nan stuffed with cheese, onion and green chilli. Delicious.
ACCOMPANIMENTS (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED – THEY ARE A MUST WITH CURRIES)
Raita - yoghurt with cucumber. $4.00
Sweet mango chutney $4.00
Green salad $9.00
Sliced cucumber, lettuce, carrot and tomatoes with a wedge of lemon.
Free range eggs poached, fried or scrambled served on your choice of ciabata bread, sourdough, five-grain or gluten free
Ricotta Hotcakes $19.5
w/ Bacon
Green Omelette $4
Would you like it with some salmon?
The Magic Sister $18.5
The herbivore version. Fried gourmet potatoes, slow roasted capsicum, fried vine tomatoes, field mushrooms, grilled eggplant, avocado, house tomato relish, toast & eggs how you like 'em
Eggs Benedict $19
Poached free range eggs on ciabata w/lemon hollandaise and House cured Akaroa salmon
Field Mushroom $17.5
With smashed gourmet potatoes, quinoa, roasted eggplant, grilled halloumi, beetroot feta puree and rocket. Top off the stack with a poached egg $2. Wrap it up with some crispy dry cured streaky bacon $2
Little Sister Special Board $20
Mix up your tasting experience and get a treat board including a selection of aunty Lisa's mini muesli parfait, our house cured akaroa salmon, a soft boiled egg, brie, pecorino cheese, a pickle, valrhona cacao baked beans, black forest ham and a mini bagel