The belief that Indian food is and has always been laden with spices is a common misconception. Red chiles were only introduced to India by the Portuguese 450 years ago.

With their online food videos and social media influence, Pawar and Bansal feel they’ve been chipping away at some of the assumptions and oversimplifications that exist in the Indian food arena.

There are, after all, more than 40,000 Chinese restaurants around the country, and roughly the same number of Mexican restaurants, but only about 5,000 Indian restaurants, according to Ray.

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Cooking food, eating food and talking about food connects me to my grandmothers in a way that English or Tamil — or even a mix of both — can’t quite seem to do.

The word probably comes from the Hindi word “chaatna,” which means “to lick” and which also may have been the source of the term for Indian street food, chaat.

Dallas' Indian food options are rich. From straight-from-mom’s-kitchen stuff to French-Indian brunch, we've got it all. Here are some of our favorites.

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