Sitar of India Menu (Update 2025)
Introducing the menu at Sitar of India, located in Charleston, WV, offers a wide range of Indian dishes prepared with authentic North Indian flavors. The restaurant, known for its extensive menu and welcoming staff, provides options for all tastes. Customers rave about the fresh and delicious food, with highlights like the Sitar Veggie appetizer platter and Bread Basket receiving special mention. The casual ambiance and attentive service make it a go-to spot for both regulars and visitors. While some customers note the need for cosmetic upgrades, the overall dining experience is highly praised. From spicy dishes to mild options, Sitar of India caters to a diverse range of preferences, ensuring a memorable dining experience for all. Whether you're new to Indian cuisine or a seasoned fan, Sitar of India promises a flavorful journey worth embarking on.
Sitar House Specials
Paneer Tikka Masala
Homemade cheese and vegetables marinated then sauteed in our classic tikka masala.
Mixed Vegetable Korma
MIxed garden vegetables cooked with delicate spices herbs, nuts, and raisins in a mild cream sauce.
Mixed Vegetable Curry
Mixed garden vegetables cooked with onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, and fragrant spices.
Golden Beans
Kidney beans cooked with onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, and fragrant spices.
Punjabi Curry
Garm flour cooked with yogurt, clarified butter, onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, green pepper, and spices.
Chicken Kimma Matter
Very lean minced boneless chicken mixed with onion, fresh garlic, ginger, green pepper and spices and baked on skewers.
Sitar Specials
Chef's Specials
Lamb Chilli
Cubes of lamb sauteed with bell pepper and finished with an exotic Indian sauce.
Lamb Karahi
Boneless pieces of lamb, pan-fried with sliced onions, tomatoes, pepper and spices.
Lamb Makhnwaia
Boneless tandoori lamb cooked in a delightful batter sauce with almonds and spices.
Chicken Kofta
Chicken balls cooked in a creamy nut sauce with fresh herbs and spices.
Seafood Masala
Scallops, shrimps, and fish cooked in a delightful, bright, tangy cream sauce.
Allo-D-Piaza
Potatoes, pan-roasted with onions, tomatoes, peppers, and exotic spices.
Bhindi Masala
Cut okra cooked with onions, tomatoes garlic, ginger, and a variety of Indian spices.
Egg Curry
Boils egg cooked with onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, and fragrant spices.
Egg Bhurji
Egg cooked with onions, tomatoes, garlic, ginger, and variety of Indian spices.
Paneer Bhurji
Raw paneer cooked with onions, tomatoes, garlic, ginger and variety of Indian spices.
Sitar Special Cheese
Cheese cooked with spiced onions, bell pepper, tomato sauce, hot sauce, ginger, garlic and variety of Indian spices.
Chicken Lambar Dar
Boneless chicken marinated in yogurt and spices and deep-fried cooked with sliced onions, bell pepper, tomato sauce, ginger, garlic and a variety of Indian spices.
Chicken Makhnwaia
Boneless tandoori chicken cooked in a delightful batter sauce with almonds and spices.
Vegetable Pakoras ()
Fresh cut vegetables deep-fried in spicy chickpea batter.
Vegetable Samosas ()
Popular Indian tumover stuffed with mildly spiced peas and potatoes.
Aloo Tikki ()
Lightly spiced and deep-fried potato patties.
Samosa Chaat
Place the boiled chick pass along over the smashed samosa top with chopped onions, tomatoes, coriander, tamarind chutney, green chutney.
Meat Samosas ()
Spicy turnover stuffed with minced lamb and spices.
Sitar Vegetarian Platter
Delicious assortment of vegetable pakoras, samosa aloo tikki, cheese pakora and pappadam.
Pappadam ()
Spiced lacy lentil wafers.
Chicken Pakoras ()
Tender pieces of boneless white meat deep fried in spicy chickpea batter.
Chicken Tikka
Tender pieces of chicken marinated in spices and yogurt, then cooked on skewers in the tandoor clay oven.
Fish Pakoras ()
Pieces of haddock deep fried in spicy chick pea batter.
Sitar Non-Vegetarian Platter
Meat samosa, chicken pakora, fish pakora, chicken tikka, and seekh kebab.
Cheese Pakoras ()
Fresh homemade cheese, deep-fried in lightly spiced chickpeas batter.
Appetizers
Soups
Lentil Soup
Delicious and popular soup of mixed lentils cooked with herbs and mild Indian spices.
Cocount Soup
A rich, warm soup made with slightly sweetened coconut milk, topped with pistachios.
Naan
Unleavened bread baked in the tandoori clay oven.
Kulcha
Mixed flour, salt, (onion, aloo, gobi).
Cheese Naan
Stuffed with lightly spiced cheese.
Chilli Naan
Stuffed with lightly spiced and chilly.
Aloo Naan
Stuffed with potatoes and spices.
Onion Naan
Stuffed with lightly spiced onions.
Garlic Naan
A delightful bread with garlic and spices.
Chicken Naan
Stuffed with chicken, herbs, and spices.
Keema Naan
Stuffed with spiced and minced Lamb.
Peshawari Naan
A soft leavened bread stuffed with dry fruits, topped with coconut.
Chapati
Traditional Indian whole wheat bread cooked on a griddle.
Tandoori Roti
Indian whole wheat bread cooked in the tandoor.
Parantha
Whole wheat bread, folded and cooked with butter on a griddle.
Vegetable Parantha
Folded and stuffed with peas, cauliflower, and spices.
Poori
A festive and exotic whole wheat puffed bread.
Break Basket
A tasty assortment of our spiced breads.
Gobi Naan
Stuffed with lightly spiced gobi.
Breads
Chicken Specialties
Chicken Curry
Boneless chicken cooked with onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, and fragrant spices.
Chicken Jalfrezi
Boneless chicken cooked with vegetables, fresh herbs, and spices.
Chicken Vindaloo
Boneless chicken cooked with potatoes in a hot, tangy sauce.
Chicken Saag
Boneless chicken cooked with spinach and sauteed in butter with fresh spices.
Chicken Mushroom
Boneless chicken with mushrooms, herbs, and spices.
Chicken Methi
Tender pieces of white meat cooked with fresh fenugreek leaves
Chicken Chili
Boneless pieces of white meat sauteed with green chili and finished with an exotic Indian sauce.
Chicken Tikka Masala
Boneless white meat tandoori cooked in a delightful, bright, tangy cream sauce.
Chicken Korma
Chicken cooked with delicate spices, herbs, nuts and raisins in a mild cream sauce.
Chicken Kashmiri
A special regional dish of boneless chicken cooked in rich creamy tomato sauce with nuts and fruits.
Chicken Tikka Saag
Boneless white meat tandoori cooked in fragrantly spiced spinach.
Lamb Curry
Cubes of lamb in a thick sauce of onions, tomatoes, garlic ginger, herbs, and spices.
Lamb Bhuna
Pan-fried cubes of lamb with green pepper, tomatoes, onions, and spices.
Lamb Vindaloo
Lamb marinated in vinegar and spices and cooked with potatoes in a hot, tangy sauce.
Lamb Korma
Lamb cooked with select spices, herbs, and nuts in a mild cream sauce.
Lamb Do Piazo
Pieces of tandoori lamb pan fried with sliced onion, tomatoes, pepper, and spices.
Lamb Saag
Tender pieces of lamb cooked with spinach, fresh ginger, garlic, and spices.
Lamb Mushroom
Cubes of lamb cooked with mushrooms and a blend of fresh herbs spices.
Achar Lamb
Spicy concoction of juicy lamb and special masala of whole Indian spices.
Lamb Rogan Josh
Tender lamb cooked in clarified butter, browned onions, fresh ginger, a touch of garlic and simmered in spices and yogurt.
Lamb Specialties
Seafood Specialties
Shrimp Masala
Shrimp cooked with tomatoes, onions, and spices in a bright, creamy sauce.
Shrimp Saag
Shrimp cooked with fresh spinach and spices, garnished with fresh coriander.
Shrimp Korma
Shrimp in a mildly spiced cream sauce flavored with nuts raisins.
Shrimp Vindaloo
Shrimp cooked in a hot tangy sauce with potatoes and onion.
Shrimp Do Piazo
Shrimp pan-fried with fresh ginger, garlic, green pepper, onions, and spices.
Fish Masala
Cold fillet cooked in a rich, tomato-based creamy sauce and spices.
Fish Vindaloo
Cod fillet cooked with potatoes in a hot, spicy sauce.
Shrimp Curry
Shrimp cooked with onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, and fragrant spices.
Fish Curry
Filet of tilapia cooked in a light curry sauce.
Chicken Biryani
Basmati rice cooked with chicken or lamb, fresh green peas, nuts, and raisins.
Veg. Biryani
Basmati rice cooked with select spices, herbs, nuts and raisins and fresh vegetables.
Shrimp Biryani
Lightly spiced basmati rice cooked with shrimp, nuts, and raisins.
Vegetable Biryani
Basmati rice cooked with select spices, herbs, nuts and raisins, and fresh vegetables.
Sitar Special Biryani
Basmati rice cooked in clarified butter with shrimp, chicken, lamb, paneer, vegetables, nuts, raisins, and garnished with fresh coriander.
Peas Pilao
Aromatic basmati rice cooked with fresh green peas and lightly spiced.
Rice
Plain boiled basmati rice.
Lamb Biryani
Baked casserole of basmati rice and lamb with delicious spices.
Rice Specialties
Tandoori Specialties
Chicken Tandoori
Tender chicken marinated in yogurt and spices and baked on skewers.
Chicken Tikka
Boneless chicken breasts marinated in yogurt and spices and baked on skewers.
Lamb Kebab
Tender cubes of lamb marinated in herbs and spices, gently baked.
Seekh Kebab
Very lean minced lamb mixed with onion, fresh herbs and spices and baked on skewers.
Tandoori Mixed Grill
A delicious combination of chicken and lamb.
Chicken Reshmi Sheekh Kebab
Very lean minced chicken mixed with onion, fresh herbs and spices and baked on skewers.
Malai Kofta
Vegetable balls cooked in a creamy nut sauce with fresh herbs and spices.
Baingan Bhartha
Eggplant specialty baked over an open flame, mashed and then sauteed with onions, garlic, ginger, and special spices.
Saag Paneer
Spicy spinach cooked with pieces of fresh homemade cheese.
Matter Paneer
Fresh green peas cooked with homemade cheese and a variety of herbs and spices.
Mixed Vegetables
Mixed garden vegetables cooked with fresh herbs and spices.
Aloo Palak
Potatoes and spinach delicately cooked with cream, onions, tomatoes, and spices.
Allo Matter
Fresh green peas and potatoes in a fragrant spiced sauce.
Chana Masala
Whole chickpeas cooked with onions, tomatoes, and spices.
Chana Palak
Chickpeas cooked with spinach, ginger, and garlic.
Dal Makhni
Black lentils cooked with fresh herbs and spices, sauteed in butter and garnished with fresh coriander.
Dal Tadka
Dal tadka is a punjabi yellow dal cooked with onion, tomato, ginger, and garlic.
Aloo Gobhi
Fresh cauliflower and potatoes cooked with ginger, garlic, onion, and spices.
Shahi Paneer Korma
Homemade cheese sauteed with fresh ginger, garlic, cooked in a creamy tomato sauce and garnished with nuts and raisins.
Kadai Paneer
Paneer, capsicum, tomato, onion and traditional Indian spices.
Paneer Do Piaza
Homemade cheese, pan-roasted with sliced onions, tomatoes, green peppers, and exotic spices.
Paneer Chilli
Cubes of paneer cooked with bell pepper, onions, and exotic Indian spices.
Vegetarian Specialties
Side Orders
Raita
Cooling yogurt with shredded cucumbers and mint.
Plain Yogurt
Mint Chutney
Mixed Pickle
Mango Chutney
A spiced indian garnish with delicious pickled mangoes.
Condiment Tray
Mango chutney, pickle, raita, and mint chutney.
Chicken Tikka Sausa
Gulab Jamun
Deep-fried cheese and milk balls soaked in syrup.
Kulfi
Exotic Ice cream from India made with almonds, pistachios, and cashews.
Kheer
Rice cooked in sweetened milk with raisins and almonds.
Desserts
Beverages
Mango Lassi
Soda (Coke, Sprite, Diet Coke)
A crisp, refreshing taste you know and love with zero calories.