Best Street Food in Lucknow

Lucknow – Nawabon Ka Shehr is famous as the land of Awadhi cuisine. It has a lot more to offer beyond your thoughts. The atmosphere that hangs in the air of city keep on attracting the foodies from all over India. 

Nawabs were very much particular about the great arts, culture, and food. Lucknow is perhaps one of the best places to taste the sweetest mithai (sweets) of India. Lucknow is the true spirit of a very cultural city!

From a wide range of kebabs to Lucknowi Paan to the royal Biryanis,Gulabi chai. Lucknow is the house of gluttons. Street food of Lucknow is just wow. Chowks are the best place to try amazing streets foods.

Each and every dish of Lucknow has its own identity and unique taste. Roomali roti, Kebab Paratha, paan, and Kormas are the most popular dishes of this Nawabi City – Lucknow.

The food culture of Lucknow is of top quality with a 5-star rating. Not only the food is cooked, it’s actually the tradition which is passing from generation to generation making the food more tasty and delicious.

1)Kebab Paratha

Kebab Paratha is one of the heavenly offering dishes in Lucknow. Parathas are served with the Kebabs which are specially made with more than 150 authentic spices.

2)Paya ki Nihari

Paya ki Nihari is a delicious satisfying dish which is shimmered overnight till the lamb meat is softened and the gelatine in the bone slips off the stew. It is best to try with tender Kulchas.

3)Lucknowi Chaat/Tokri Chaat

The cuisine of Lucknow is just incomplete without the tasty and spicy Lucknowi Chaats. There are varieties of chaats and snack busters starting from dahi vada, aloo dum. Tokri chaat, pani-batasha (in seven different flavors) to delicious basket chaat.

4)Galawati Kebab

Kebabs are all time famous dish of Lucknow. These kebabs are flavoured with hot spices, peppercorns, lemon juice and crushed green papaya. It is a Mughlai recipe. Most of the people prepare it especially during the festival of Eid.

5)Tunday Kebab

Tunday (Tunde ke Kebab) is yet another amazing delight of Lucknow. It is a dish with very small pieces of meat and the dish is over 100 years old. And the uniqueness lies in the secret flavor spices.

6)Mutton Biryani

Traditionally, Lucknow is famous for its unique taste of biryani. The real flavour of Dum Biryani is a must try the food when you are in the city of Nawabs. It is put in low fire flame as slow cooking of biryani ensures that the meat actually retains all its natural aromas to give the dish a rich flavour.

7)Rogan Josh

Rogan Josh is a Persian dish rich in mutton after intense cooking it with ghee. It is also the traditional dish of Kashmir. Rogan Josh is a dish even the words can’t express its taste.

8)Makhan Malai

It is a whimsical sweet dish of Lucknow which is rich in milk, saffron, cardamom, and rosewater to give it a creamy and intense flavour. This dish is the winter delight of Lucknow. It is just a heavenly dessert that melts smoothly in the mouth and vanishes away.