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Most "muslim" food is not from India.
That said, there is no such thing as "muslim" food unless it specifically originated post the birth of Islam and specific to and/or linked to Islam only.
I'm no food historian, but I'd wager there are few if any such examples, and I cannot think of any.
Hindu food yes. Because Hindu is a civilization and a religion. One cannot identify the cleave plane between the two. And it is ancient and predates all other religions. So unless you date the origin of Indian food to before the estimated origins of the Rig Veda (carbon dated samples stuck to white pottery maybe?) what is Indian is also Hindu. Seamlessly synonymous.
^doesn't look to appetizing tbh but then it was the Portuguese who introduced both the Tomato and the Potato to India.
The tomato arrived in India by the way of Portuguese explorers, in the 16th century.
Tomato - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
The Portuguese introduced potatoes, which they called 'Batata', to India in the early seventeenth century when they cultivated it along the western coast. British traders introduced potatoes to Bengal as a root crop, 'Alu'. By the end of the 18th century, it was cultivated across northern hill areas of India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_potato
Half of our subzeez and daals etc will vanish if we remove the tamatar and alu
Anywho, we owned it, and have made it our own since.. haven't we ?
The Biriyani is most definitely "muslim" food in a sense. Those long caravans were just looking for a good hearty meal and sort of stumbled upon this way of doing rice.. at least that's how the story goes. Again, like with the humble potato and tomato, that style of cooking evolved eventually to what we now know as a biriyani. In present day India, there are 3 major schools of it.. Lucknowi, Hyderabadi, and to a somewhat lesser extent, Kolkotta.. they do versions in TN and Kerala too with that fat small rice.. delish and different spices, but I prefer the long grain basmati versions of the north.