Cumin Lakeview

Name: Cumin Lakeview
Address: 1039 West Belmont Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60657, US
Telephone: (773) 687-9024

Nepalese and Indian

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Mon, Wed–Fri 11am–2:30pm and 4pm–10pm; Sat–Sun 11am–3pm and 4pm–10pm; Tue closed

1039 West Belmont Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657
(773) 687-9024
Last verified: August 2026
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Tandoori chicken pieces with onions, cilantro, and lemon at Cumin Lakeview

Biryani: Long-grain basmati layered with marinated meat, fried onions, saffron and whole spices and cooked "dum", sealed under a lid so the rice steams in the meat's juices. Hyderabad, Lucknow, Kolkata (with a potato and egg), Malabar and Sindh each have their own. Served with raita and often a thin gravy (salan). Pulao is the simpler, single-pot cousin. On this menu as: Biryanis · Vegetable Dum Biryani · Chicken Biryani.
Tandoori: Cooked in a tandoor, a deep, charcoal- or gas-fired clay oven that reaches very high heat. Tandoori chicken is bone-in pieces marinated in yogurt, lemon, ginger-garlic and spices (the red color is mostly Kashmiri chili or food coloring), skewered and roasted until charred. Naan is slapped onto the same oven's walls. On this menu as: Tandoori · Chicken Tandoori (Full/Half) · Tandoori Salmon.
Thukpa & Nepali thali (dal bhat): Himalayan dishes on many "Indian & Nepali" menus. Thukpa is a Tibetan noodle soup; dal bhat is the Nepali national plate of lentils, rice, vegetable curry (tarkari) and pickle (achar); sekuwa is grilled marinated meat; choila is charred buffalo or chicken tossed with mustard oil, chili and fenugreek, a Newari specialty. On this menu as: Appetizers (Nepalese) · Entrees (Nepalese).
Naan: A leavened, teardrop-shaped bread slapped onto the wall of the tandoor, blistered and brushed with butter or ghee. Garlic, butter and cheese naan are standard; keema naan is stuffed with spiced mince, peshwari with coconut and dried fruit. Kulcha is the flakier, often stuffed (potato, onion, paneer) Punjabi relative. On this menu as: Naan · Garlic Naan · Peshawari Naan.
Pakora & bhaji: Fritters of vegetables, paneer or chicken dipped in a chickpea-flour (besan) batter and deep-fried. Onion bhaji is the British-menu name for onion pakora. Mixed vegetable pakora is the rainy-day snack of the subcontinent, eaten with chai. On this menu as: Pakora - Paneer · Pakora - Chicken · Pakora - Shrimp.
Butter chicken (murgh makhani): Tandoori chicken finished in a silky sauce of puréed tomato, butter, cream and a little fenugreek, sweeter and gentler than tikka masala. Invented at Moti Mahal in Delhi in the 1950s as a way to use leftover tandoori chicken. "Makhani" (buttery) on any dish, including dal makhani, promises the same rich treatment. On this menu as: Chicken Makhani/Butter · Dal Makhani.

How these dishes compare

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Biryanitypically $16 across 345 menus
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Butter chicken (murgh makhani)typically $16 across 318 menus
Tandooritypically $11.97 across 316 menus
Saag & palaktypically $15.95 across 309 menus

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Appetizers (Indian)

Entrees (Indian)

Tandoori

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