Blog Posts - Bengali Recipe

What began as a lazy Sunday quickly metamorphosed into an potboiler weekend day. Primarily because of two reason a very interesting movie and an equally amazing recipe.A couple of months back while searching for movies in Youtube I came across the tr...

All the seafood lovers out there this is one prawn dish I’m sure that you would love to try!! This dish is always a winner, makes a match made in heaven with plain steamed rice. Texture, color, flavour you name it, this is superlative in each. So q...

This is one nostalgic and very special write up for me as it’s about street food of Kolkata and is quintessentially Bengali. My love for the city I was born in has increased over the past decade considerably enough as I stay away and miss all the v...

This is my hundredth blogpost and contains a very special recipe ‘The Railway Mutton Curry’. The recipe is special in the sense that it’s not the typical Bengali mutton curry we generally make on Sundays. Moreover, this mutton curry brings to m...

How about an awesome chicken dish today after two consecutive postings of vegetarian dishes? Chicken Kosha is a Bong culinary treasure that has caught up with the rest of the world as has its mutton counterpart. It’s a favorite any day especially i...

Sunday is the day of making a special dish for lunch. Sonny awaits with expectations of something new, different and delicious. He suggested a few days back, “Maa  why don’t you make a special prawn dish this Sunday?” I pondered, yes has b...

There was a time, during my childhood days in Kolkata when the panacea to all illness seemed a hot steaming bowl of mutton or chicken stew. “Oh my God you are running a temperature!! Caught a cold didn’t you? Have Crocin now. Will make you mutton...

It was Republic Day, a National Holiday, drizzling since the night before, a cold and overcast day in the National Capital. Nobody were out of their houses unless absolutely necessary. Nothing much to do except listening to the patriotic songs being...

  This is another traditional Bengali recipe. Eggplants are  lightly sauteed and then cooked in the creamy poppy seed paste. It is amazingly simple and flavorful. This happens to be one of those dishes where no spices are required. Even thoug...

Today I’ll share with you the easiest recipe of all in this ‘GO GREEN’ series, perhaps easier than tossing up a salad or stuffs like that for yourself in which at least you have got to chop the veggies or fruits that go into your salad. But thi...

  One year flew by. Didn’t it?  Never to come back. Never to repeat. Never to offer us another chance. Is this why at every New Year’s eve I prefer staying home instead of attending parties and calling in another New Year?  To m...

    Aloo Bhaate or mashed potatoes is the most basic dish in Bengali cuisine. It happens to be our quintessential comfort food. I will go ahead a little further and say that Aloo Bhaate defines a Bengali to a certain extent.   When w...

    The sound of “Mishti Pulao” takes me back to this little girl dining on this tiny table and chair, set by the family dining table just where the door opens. It is Christmas lunch. The family has gathered around the table. C...

  Twenty years back when I left behind my home, my family and my childhood to begin a new life in this country, I had no idea how much I would miss the everyday things that I took for granted: the hand pump which spurted out water with every sq...

  A few times a year, I get the gift of indulging into a full blown elaborate Bengali meal. The times when my dad visits, and then there are those times when my cousin comes over. There is nothing more beautiful than sharing a familiar spread of...

    We have had a really good summer so far. Milder than the past few years with quite a few summer rains.   Summer rain… the sound rings in happiness for me. The smell of wet soil as the large drops disappear in to the hot, t...

      Here is a simple dish where eggplants are sauteed and cooked in a sweet and sour sauce with tamarind and raisins.         This is a traditional Bengali dish. However for some reason I have no recollection of any fo...

  This post is for all for my little T. This is such a simple and everyday recipe that I would not even think of blogging it if it was not for her. The radishes always had been hers; from the seed to the lightly seasoned bowlful this time. ...

    Piquant, pungent and invigorating is how I would describe this condiment.      Photo by T   Bengali cuisine is rich with recipes that are healthy, quick and extremely aromatic. Needless to say both mustard and mustard...

These days I am indulging myself into a lot of Food & Travel shows mainly on Fox Traveller and Food Food. Reason being now a days A is doing a lot of business travelling and I am having the TV all to myself. I am not a lover of Saas-Bahu & Sa...

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