Overview
- Signature Dishes: Kebabs
- Opening Times & Days: 10am to 11pm, daily
- Address: Nizamuddin, New Delhi, India
- Contact: N/A
- Reservation: No
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Summary
Nizamuddin restaurants have a great selection of Mughlai food especially kebabs which are some of the best in town. If you’re in the area, stop at one of these restaurants and try their kebabs, that’s if you don’t mind the dingy and austere surroundings.
Nizamuddin Restaurants Delhi
Most of the Nizamuddin restaurants are located along the narrow laneway that leads to Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah. If you’re planning on visiting the Dargah, it’s a good option to eat at one of the many restaurants in this area as not only is the food delicious here, it’s pretty cheap too. Nizamuddin restaurants specialise in Mughlai cuisine, particularly kebabs. In addition to tandoori chicken which you can see hanging in front of the retaurants, they also make a range of kebabs including seekh and shami kebabs. Biryanis can also be had here.
Don’t expect anything flash here as most of the restaurants are aimed at the budget traveller looking for good food at reasonable prices. If you choose to eat at one of these restaurants, the eating area is very basic and occasionally a bit dingy. If you don’t mind the very basic surroundings, you will be love the food.
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While we were waiting for the qawwali session to take place at Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah after namaz (prayers), we sampled a few different dishes at a couple of the Nizamuddin restaurants.
A Shami kebab is a small patty made of minced meat, with a paste of lentils and chopped onion and coriander and green chillies usually added to the mixture, which is kneaded into a disc-like shape and fried. They are often garnished with lemon juice and/or sliced raw onions, and can be eaten with chutney made from mint or coriander. These condiments usually add a lot more flavour to the shami kebab making it a really tasty kebab.
We had the Shami kebabs with parathas which were soft and doughy and made a really nice kebab roll with a dash of lemon and sliced onions. These were the best kebabs we had at the Nizamuddin restaurants. They were crispy on the outside and moist on the inside and had lots of flavour to them which we really enjoyed. The parathas were soft and went really well with the kebabs.
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Another Mughlai dish that we tried was Seekh kebabs which is prepared with minced meat and spices and grilled on skewers. It is cooked in a Tandoor, and is often served with chutneys or mint sauce.
We ate the Seekh kebabs with Romali roti which is a paper-thin Indian flat bread which is best enjoyed with Tandoori dishes and is a traditional element in Mughlai cuisine. The word rumal means handkerchief in many north Indian languages, and the name ‘rumali roti’ means handkerchief bread. The bread is extremely thin and supple, and the fact that it is usually served folded like a handkerchief gives it its name.
The seekh kebabs had a lot of different flavours to it which we loved; unfortunately, the meat was a bit dry as it may have been overcooked. The rumali rotis were quite nice; soft and thin and were really easy to eat.
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The last dish we tried was Chicken biryani, another traditional Mughlai dish made up of rice, meat and spices which has been steamed together for a long time. The meat was nicely marinated with plenty of flavour; however, the rice tasted bland as it didn’t have enough spices.
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Next to the Nizamuddin restaurants, you can also find a couple of sweet shops selling Afghani sweets at the side of the road. They have a variety of sweets that are worth trying out. Usually sold by the kilogram, we bought only a handful of each variety to sample. These sweets are so delicious and the filling in each one was a surprise when we ate them; one had coconut while another was stuffed with raisins and nuts. They were a delight to eat.
Nizamuddin restaurants have a great selection of Mughlai food especially kebabs which are some of the best in town. If you’re in the area, stop at one of these restaurants and try their kebabs, that’s if you don’t mind the dingy and austere surroundings.
