Our Menu
Appetizers
Fresh wheat wafers with potatoes, cucumber, tomato, and onion, garnished with yogurt & tamarind sauce, served cold.

Potato and green peas patties flavored with coriander.
Crispy rice noodles mixed in a tangy sauce with tomatoes and onions, served cold.
Boneless white meat tender pieces of chicken dipped in chickpea batter and deep fried.

Tender pieces of white meat chicken marinated in a spicy yogurt and cooked on a skewer in a tandoor, a clay oven.

Cooked fresh in a clay oven.
Spiced and minced lamb in a deep-fried dough pouch.

Deep-fried homemade mint and flavored cottage cheese cubes.
Crispy samosa topped with chana masala gravy and yoghurt, spices, mint chutney, and sweet chutney.

Combination of chicken pakora, lamb samosa, lamb seekh kebab, and chicken tikka.

Assortment of vegetarian appetizers.
Fresh vegetables dipped in a delicately spiced batter and deep-fried.
Crispy fried turnovers filled with mildly spiced potatoes and green peas.
Soup
Fresh tomato soup seasoned with a hint of coconut.
A flavorful lentil with vegetables and spices.
Boneless chicken soup with herbs and spices.
Vegetarian Entrees
Homemade vegetable and paneer koftas simmered in a mildly spiced cream sauce.

Chickpeas cooked in traditional North Indian spices with tomato, ginger and garlic.
Green peas and homemade cottage cheese or potatoes cooked with mild spices.
Traditional cauliflower and potato dish cooked with garlic, onion, turmeric, and other spices.
A combination of dark lentils simmered overnight in cream and lightly fried in butter.
Tandoor-broiled eggplant cooked with green peas, tomatoes, and onions.
Traditional Punjabi yellow lentils cooked with onions and ginger.
Homemade cheese cooked in a rich and creamy tomato sauce.
Stir-fried okra with onions, tomatoes, ginger, and spices.
Mixed garden fresh vegetables cooked with herbs, spices, and nuts in a mild cream sauce.
Fresh mixed vegetables with herbs, spices, and coriander.
Fresh spinach cooked with potatoes and light cream sauce.
Chickpeas cooked with fresh spinach, onions, garlic and mild cream sauce.
Homemade cheese scrambled with peas, a medley of onions, tomatoes and spices.
Fresh green peas cooked in a light cream sauce with mushrooms, herbs & spices.
Taj House Regulars
Prepared with tomatoes, light cream, herbs, and spices.
Made with fresh spinach and light cream.
Made with potatoes in spicy tomato and onion sauce.
Cooked in rich, creamy sauce with nuts.
A special blend of herbs and spices.
Taj Specials
Lamb curry cooked with tomatoes and onions and flavored with cinnamon, cloves, and cardamom.
Ever-popular Indo-Chinese dish cooked with tomatoes, onions, ginger, garlic, herbs, soy sauce and spices.
Chicken cooked in sweet tamarind sauce with a touch of ginger, coconut, mustard seeds, curry leaves, and garlic.
Kashmiri chicken curry flavored with fire-roasted cracked coriander, yogurt, fresh cilantro, and spices.
White meat chicken cooked in a tandoor, sauteed in a thick spinach cream sauce.
Homemade Indian cheese cubes with chili pepper, onion, tomato, and spice.
White boneless chicken cooked in mango puree with onion, ginger, garlic, and spices.
Chef Specials
Boneless pieces of chicken cooked with fresh tomatoes, green peas, peppers, onions, and exotic spices.
Boneless chicken cooked with mushrooms, herbs, and spices.
Shrimp cooked with fresh tomatoes, green peas, peppers, onions, and exotic spices.
Pieces of lamb cooked with mushrooms and a curry in a special blend of seasonings.
Minced lamb cooked with peas, onions, tomatoes, herbs, and spices.
Kebabs

A quintessential kebab of chicken pieces with bone marinated in yogurt, ginger, garlic, lemon juice, and spice, cooked to perfection.

Lucknows most celebrated delicate melt-in-your-mouth minced lamb kebab wrapped over a skewer and cooked over an open fire.
Tender salmon filet marinated in a light yogurt sauce and cooked in the tandoor.
Lamb chunks marinated in herbs and spices.
Jumbo shrimps in a delicate pickling marinade cooked in the tandoor.
Succulent boneless dark chicken pieces dipped in cream cheese and crushed peppercorn.
Taj special assortment of popular kebabs, mint tikkey marinated in fresh mint, sour cream yogurt and garlic and ginger.
Breads

Traditional leavened bread made in the tandoor.
Leavened homemade bread topped with garlic.
A naan stuffed with exotic nuts and raisins.
Scrumptious naan stuffed with homemade cheese and topped with cilantro.
Stuffed with potatoes and green peas.
Stuffed with chicken and coriander.
Stuffed with minced lamb and spices.
Crispy, whole wheat bread stuffed with mashed potatoes and peas, cooked on a griddle with butter.
Crispy, whole wheat, unleavened Indian bread.
Traditional, crispy, whole wheat, unleavened bread cooked in the tandoor.
Thin, soft, whole wheat bread cooked on the griddle.
Puffy, deep-fried whole wheat bread.
Choice of 3 kinds of plain bread.
A naan stuffed with caramelized onions.
Biryani (Rice Special)
Basmati rice cooked with exotic spices, herbs, fresh vegetables, cashews, almonds, and raisins.
Basmati rice, chicken chunks, fresh vegetables, nuts, raisins, and spices garnished with fresh coriander.
Juicy pieces of lamb, fresh vegetables, basmati rice and spices, garnished with almonds, cashews and raisins.
Saffron-flavored basmati rice cooked with shrimp, almonds, cashews, raisins and vegetables.
Basmati rice in butter with shrimp, fish, chicken, lamb, beef, cheese, vegetables, almonds, cashews, raisins, and garnished with fresh coriander.
Juicy pieces of goat, fresh vegetables, basmati rice and spices, garnished with almonds, cashews and raisins.
Juicy pieces of beef, fresh vegetables, basmati rice and spices, garnished with almonds, cashews and raisins.
Piaza
Marinated shrimp cooked in rich Indian spices with peppers and onions.
Marinated lamb cooked in rich Indian spices with peppers and onions.
Marinated beef cooked in rich Indian spices with peppers and onions.

Marinated chicken cooked in rich Indian spices with peppers and onions.
Homemade cheese cubes sauteed with onions and peppers, finished in tomato cream sauce.
Sides
Aromatic rice cooked with cumin, cinnamon, and other fragrant spices. Note: rice is already included with each entree.
Spiced yogurt and cucumber salad.
Sweet and tangy.
A traditional assortment of lime, carrot, mango, and chilli pickle.
Crispy baked snack of ground lentils.

Desserts
Authentic Indian homemade ice cream flavored with cardamom, saffron, and nuts.
Homemade cheese patty simmered in milk and cardamom, served cold.
Homemade milk balls, deep-fried and mixed into a sugar-cardamom syrup, served warm.
Traditional North Indian rice pudding.