: a varying blend of spices used in Indian cooking
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This restaurant, like so many recent high-profile openings, is part of the genuinely thrilling wave of South Asian restaurants arguing for regional precision, pushing back against decades of commodity Indian cuisine, the culture- and geography-flattening tikka masalas and garlic naans.—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 31 May 2026 Paneer cheese, cooked chicken and potato masala were below proper hot holding temperatures.—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
may 29, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026 This flavorful, weeknight-easy pizza embraces shortcut ingredients like refrigerated dough, purchased tikka masala sauce, and rotisserie chicken.—Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 24 May 2026 Since opening May 8, their Indian fusion spot has been serving everything from staples like butter chicken masala to pizzas, pastas and salmon dishes.—Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 18 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for masala
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Hindi & Urdu masālā materials, ingredients, spices