Aloo posto – Dry Version
This dish, you mention to any bengali anywhere in the world and you will see the sparkle in their eyes. Yes, it is that humble aloo posto or potato cooked in poppy seed paste in…
Aloo diye shutki machh
A delicacy from bangal community where dried bombay duck is cooked in lots of garlic, green chilli and onion to become a finger licking good hot and spicy dish. I learnt the dish from my…
Palakwale Mung Dal
One of my favourite dal recipe during winter, when you get fresh spinach in the market. It is a regular dal recipe with the addition of spinach and some rasun or garlic tarka is the…
Dim er khichuri – egg khichuri
Another khichuri recipe which you can make in a jiffy as a weeknight dinner, when you are totally exhausted after a hard day at work or may be not in a mood for cooking. But…
Machh er matha diye Daal
Bengalis and fishes are so synonymous that this has become almost a national joke. I am not complaining though because just like every other bengali, I am also an avid fish lover, if ai say…
Posto bora – poppy seed fritters
Being a ‘bangal’ ( ancestors are from Bangladesh, that is) has its own perks, you grew up having tastiest food with focus on fish, fish and more fish. , Though I donot believe it by heart,…
Bhog er khichuri
I could not believe my eyes when I discovered that till date, I have not written this recipe. Although this is a heirloom recipe which was started by my maternal grandmother, my ‘didubhai’. The legacy…
Dhakai mutton korma
I really donot know how authentic ‘dhakai’ this recipe is, was browsing through a magazine and saw the recipe and decided to give it a try and the outcome was delicious. Ingredients: Mutton – 500…
Pomfret Machh er Jhaal
Pomfret is one of our favourite fish and we cook it many ways. I remember, when I was young, pomfret was quite an unknown and unpopular fish in our locality and it was wuite cheap…
Tiger prawn in tomato coconut gravy
We get very good quality fishes in our newtown market where we are told that the fishes are from Malancha – one of the largest fish market in south bengal. I have never been to…