Overview
If you love your fried chicken, brace yourself, because Prahran's DesiNental is now serving up some of Melbourne's best Indian fried chicken. This is owner Guvrinder Sandhu's version of classic Korean fried chicken, complete with a spicy Indian twist. Expect succulent drumettes, Maryland fillets and wings, which are fried crispy and smothered in your choice of sticky sauce: butter chicken, tangy clarified butter, or DesiNental's signature date and tamarind, spiked with sweet Indian jaggery.
Your grandma's fried chicken, this stuff is not. But if you like your Indian cuisine more on the experimental side, this might be your kind of restaurant.
You can pair your IFC with DesiNental's house-made masala fries, served with cumin and plum aioli or a Vindaloo-spiked Louisiana hot mayo.
Deeper into the menu, you'll find the likes of loaded lamb Keema fries topped with Kadhai lamb mince, cheese, sour cheese, diced tomato and spring onion, as well as a range of Indian fusion burgers. A Delhi Tikka burger pairs fried chicken with Tikka Masala sauce, along with roasted cumin and plum chutney aioli, while the Desi Masala Beef Chopped Cheese is a playful, spicy take on the original New York version.
For dessert, save some room for DesiNental's homemade Kulfi, which comes in several flavours, including raspberry, pistachio and cardamon, and mango and rose.
You'll find DesiNental on 475 High Street in Prahran, just down from Williams Road. It's open from 5pm–11pm Tuesday through to Fridays, 1pm-11pm Saturdays and 12pm-7pm Sundays.
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