Best Sellers: Top Indian Dishes Everyone Loves

When people ask what Indian food is really about, they’re usually thinking of the best sellers, the most loved, widely made, and consistently ordered Indian dishes that define home cooking and restaurant menus alike. These aren’t fancy or rare—they’re the meals that show up week after week, in kitchens from Mumbai to Patna, because they just work. You won’t find them in cookbooks labeled "exotic" or "authentic"—they’re too ordinary for that. But that’s exactly why they matter.

Take vegetarian Indian dishes, the backbone of daily meals for over 400 million people in India. Indian vegetarian cuisine isn’t just about skipping meat—it’s about making flavor, protein, and texture shine with lentils, paneer, and spices. Dishes like paneer recipes, where fresh cheese is marinated, grilled, or simmered in rich sauces, or healthy Indian food, meals that deliver nutrition without heavy cream or deep frying, prove you don’t need meat to eat well. These dishes are built on smart techniques: soaking dal for faster cooking, using the right oil for crispy dosas, or knowing not to rinse yogurt off tandoori chicken.

The best sellers aren’t just popular because they taste good—they’re popular because they’re reliable. Butter chicken? It’s mild, creamy, and forgiving for beginners. Dal tadka? It’s the first thing most Indian households learn to make. Biryani? It’s the dish you save for guests, but still make on Sundays. Even simple things like round roti or dosa batter fermentation have science behind them that makes them work better than anything else. These aren’t trends. They’re traditions that stuck because they solved real problems: how to feed a family, how to use what’s local, how to make spices sing without burning them.

What you’ll find below isn’t a random list. It’s a collection of the most clicked, most shared, and most asked-about recipes on Eternal Eats India—every one tested, explained, and stripped down to what actually matters. No fluff. No guesswork. Just the dishes people keep coming back to, with the why and how behind them. Whether you’re making paneer for the first time or trying to pick the healthiest curry off a menu, these are the recipes that deliver.