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SERVE, LOVE, GIVE, PURIFY, MEDITATE, REALISE - SWAMI SIVANANDA SARASWATI

318 East 6th Street, New York, 10003 www.malaimarke.com [email protected] (212) 777-7729 SOUPS COASTAL INDIAN SEAFOOD ( Dishes from the coastline of ) SPICY CLUB MULLIGATAWNY SOUP 6.95 (Caveat Emptor) Yellow with lemon and fresh KONJU PAPPAS 21.95 6.95 Shrimp cooked with tomatoes, kokum and coconut milk Tangy soup from Chennai VEG / 15.50 AUNT MURLIS CHINGRI MALAI 21.95 LAMB 18.95 KABAB STARTERS Shrimp in a creamy coconut tomato sauce with (Grilled to perfection) fennel CHICKEN 16.95

PANEER 10.95 LATA SHETTY’S SHRIMP AJADINA 21.95 SHRIMP 19.95 Paneer cheese in a yellow marinade Cooked with coconut and dry red chilies FISH MOILEE 21.95 CHICKEN MALAI 10.95 A British Indian curry with green chilies and Cooked with coconut, and Marinated in a mild creamy sauce habanero MURGH HARYALI 10.95 ALLEPY RED CURRY 21.95 LAL MAAS Fish cooked with kokum, tomatoes and whole Marinated in a green masala A Rajasthani speciality with red chilies ACHARI 10.95 CHICKEN Marinated in pickling A Goan speciality wth chili paste and vinegar PATIALA LAMB KABAB 11.95 DHABE WALA MURGH 15.95 Home style chicken curry CHETTINAD Spiced pan grilled lamb patties Pepper chicken from the house of Chettiyars MURGH 16.95 SMALL PLATES Chicken cooked with spinach and ginger MADURAI MELAGU CURRY A Southern speciality with dry red chilies and BHAJA 5.95 CHICKEN RIZZALA 17.95 curry leaves Onion Chicken in a green, creamy nut sauce 7.95 MURGH MAKHNI MALAI MARKE 17.95 Pastries stuffed with potatoes and peas Chicken strips, bell peppers, in a creamy tomato sauce RAGDA PATTIES 8.95 TANGRA STYLE CALCUTTA patties with , and chutnies CHICKEN CHUTNEYWALA 17.95 CHINESE SPECIALS Cooked with mangoes and green IMLI BAIGAN 8.95 STARTERS layered with tamarind chutney CHICKEN XACUTI 17.95 Cooked with roasted coconut, dark peanuts CORN SOUP 6.50 KURKURI BHINDI 9.95 and poppy seeds With garlic and scallions Okra tossed with , lime and masala 17.95 LOLLYPOP CHICKEN 9.95 10.95 Roasted chicken in a creamy tomato sauce Spicy pulled back chicken wings Spiced chickpeas served with luchi MURGH KORMA 17.95 CHILI CHICKEN (DRY) 10.95 GOBI KARARE 10.95 Chicken malai kabab in a creamy nut sauce Chicken tossed with green chilies and soy sauce Fried cauliflower with onions COONDAPUR KORI 17.95 CHILI PANEER (DRY) 10.95 JHINGA LUCHI 12.95 Coconut chicken curry from Mangalore Paneer cheese tossed with scallions, green chilies Tangy creamy shrimp served with luchi bread and soy ginger gravy LAMB MAIN COURSE (20 min. preparation time)

( A traditional Indian oven used to cook LAMB SAAG 18.95 MANCHURIAN 12.95 and bread ) Lamb with spinach and ginger Vegetable balls in a ginger soy gravy

CHICKEN TANDOORI 17.95 LAMB PEPPER FRY 18.95 VEGETABLE FRIED 12.95 Marinated bone chicken grilled to perfection Lamb tossed with peppercorns and fresh coconut Rice with and egg

CHICKEN TIKKA 18.95 LAMB BHUNA MIRCHWALA 18.95 VEGETABLE HAKKA NOODLES 13.95 Marinated chicken thighs grilled to perfection A dry curry preparation with green chilies Noodles tossed with vegetables and soy sauce

SEEKH KABAB 18.95 18.95 CHILI PANEER (GRAVY) 15.95 Skewered lamb rolls A popular Kashmiri lamb curry Paneer cheese tossed with scallions, green chilies TANDOORI SHRIMP 20.95 LAMB 18.95 and soy sauce

Skewered shrimp in tandoori spices A famous Parsi dish with lamb, lentils and spinach CHILI CHICKEN (GRAVY) 16.95 BURRA KABAB 24.95 LAMB 18.95 Chicken tossed with green chilies and soy ginger gravy Lamb chops grilled to perfection Lamb in a creamy nut sauce HOT GARLIC SHRIMP 18.95 TANDOORI MIX GRILL 24.95 LAMB MADRAS 18.95 Shrimp in a red hot garlic sauce A mélange of our favorite Lamb with coconut, dry red chillies and curry leaves

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SERVE, LOVE, GIVE, PURIFY, MEDITATE, REALISE - SWAMI SIVANANDA SARASWATI www.sivananda.org Follow Us On: Review Us On: VEGAN RICE SPECIALITIES KHADA KHANA PLAIN RICE 3.50 (Wok Style preparation) TADKA 13.95 Yellow lentils tempered with seeds PEAS PULAV 3.95 CHOWRANGI ALOO DUM 14.95 With green peas VEG / PANEER 15.50 Spiced baby potatoes, a favorite BROWN RICE 3.95 MUSHROOM MUTTER 14.95 CHICKEN 16.95 Green peas and mushrooms LEMON RICE 8.95 LAMB 18.95 SAAG 15.50 With mustard seeds Spinach sauteed with fresh vegetables COCONUT RICE 8.95 SHRIMP 20.95 BHINDI SASURALWALI 15.50 With lentils, dry red chilies and papad Okra you would eat at your in-laws house

Cooked with mushrooms in balti masala GHAR KI 15.50 SIDES Potato and cauliflower with garlic and ginger MANGO CHUTNEY 2.50

An Anglo Indian preparation with chilies PUMPKIN SABJI 15.50 Sweet relish KADAI Red pumpkin with coconut and ginger PICKLES 2.95 Tossed with , onions and bell peppers DAL SAAG 15.50 4.50 Spinach cooked with yellow lentils Refreshing yogurt BHUNI GOBI MATTAR 15.50 Cauliflower and green peas with ginger

VEGETARIAN DHABEWALI A rice preparation with garden herbs, whole masalas DAL MAKHNI MALAI MARKE 14.50 and Black lentils cooked with butter 14.50 VEG / PANEER 14.95 Chickpeas with onions and garden herbs CHICKEN 15.95 ALOO SAAG 14.50 LAMB 18.95 Spinach with potatoes and ginger SHRIMP 19.95 BAIGAN BHARTA 14.50 Tandoor smoked eggplant with garden herbs

CHANA SAAG 14.50 Spinach and chickpeas with ginger MALAI 15.95 Vegetable balls in a nutty cream sauce TANDOOR 3.95 “ The food at Malai Marke is SAAG PANEER 15.95 Whole wheat bread remarkably subtle. Each dish tastes Spinach and cheese with garden herbs LUCHI (Poori) 4.50 MUTTER PANEER 15.95 Deep fried white flour bread distinct, a matter of meticulous Green peas and cheese in creamy calibrations. There is pleasure to tomato sauce 3.95 Tandoor fired white bread be had here, in flares of that MALAI MARKE PANEER 15.95 Onion 4.50 Garlic 4.50 Chili Onion 4.50 Paneer cheese in a creamy tomato sauce Paneer Cheese 4.95 revive & warm” PANEER KHURCHAN 15.95 LACHA 4.95 Grated creamy paneer cheese with fenugreek Tandoor cooked multi layered flat bread

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SERVE, LOVE, GIVE, PURIFY, MEDITATE, REALISE - SWAMI SIVANANDA SARASWATI www.sivananda.org Approaching India From a Different Direction Hungry City: Malai Marke in the East Village MALAI MARKE Indian $$ 318 East Sixth Street, East Village 212-777-7729 By LIGAYA MISHAN APRIL 18, 2013

THE FIRST DISH TO BE DEPLETED Shiva Natarajan, the chef and owner, has a sheaf of Indian estab- at my table was always the okra. Each lishments in the city, including Chola in Midtown and in time, the crenelated pods arrived still Murray Hill. Each starts from a base of North Indian fare (still the firm and green after a flare in the pan presiding, if no longer de facto, cuisine of Indian restaurants in with a few workhorses from the Indian New York) with slight tips of the compass toward regions less larder (garlic, ginger, onions, coriander), known: Chettinad, , the former princely state of Hyderabad. the flavor not disguised by spices but amplified, crisp and grassy, without a At Malai Marke, which opened in December in the East Village, Fish Moilee suspicion of stickiness. I could not stop there is chicken tikka masala, but resist. The finest dishes declare ordering it. their provenance from India’s southwest Konkan and Malabar coasts: Kundapur chicken from , nearly maroon from On the menu, the dish is described as “okra you would eat at your Kashmiri chile powder; red fish curry from the backwaters of in-laws’ house.” Now this was a family worth marrying into. , whose sour, smoky taste is gleaned from the soaked dried

SERVE, LOVE, GIVE, PURIFY, MEDITATE, REALISE - SWAMI SIVANANDA SARASWATI