I am starting 2021 with a simple recipe of Begun Pora. It’s been a long I was planning to write the Begun Poda recipe. The simple eggplant based Bengali side dish is a winter favorite. Roasted eggplant along with very few spices can make a wonderful delicacy and every Bangali who loves to eat eggplant…
Panch Phoron Murgi | Bengali Chicken Curry with Panch Phoron
Panch Phoron Murgi is my way of giving a little twist to the good old everyday Bengali chicken curry aka Murgir Jhol at home. Chandana di, our cook is responsible for making the breakfast and also the lunch which mostly Pasta and her nanny eat and also our parents whenever they are at our place….
Murgi Khichuri | Murgir Mangshor Khichuri
Are you wondering why I am sharing the recipe of Murgi Khichuri just after the recipe of Bhuni Khichuri? The reason is quite simple. These days we are mainly living on one-pot meals especially dishes that can be cooked in a pressure cooker within no-time. After the marathon pujo cooking, I am taking a break…
Haas-er Dim Bhapa | Bengali Bhapa Dim | Duck Egg Bhapa
“Hey lunch will be Dim Bhapa and Bhat! You can make some Begun Bhaja and there’s some leftover Sona Moong Daal. We are good to go I suppose!” I told Mehebub last Sunday. Needless to say, he was hoping for some Mangshor Jhol and I was not ready to cook the meat separately for us…
Pork Rezala
Pork Rezala and I am going with this name only knowing the fact that traditionalists can bash me. Can pork at all be used while making Rezala? What do you think? I was in dilemma before writing this blog post. After all, I am talking about quintessential rezala! I was planning to use some other…
Potol Bata aka Potol Bhate
Potol Bata aka Pointed Gourd Paste is a Bengali Potol dish (entree) mostly served with Steamed Rice. In this Bengali potol recipe, a spicy paste is prepared with ripe Pointed Gourd aka Parwal and a few other ingredients. This is a vegetarian Indian Parwal recipe and you can make it very easily. The Bengali Pointed…
Doodh Sooji aka Mohanbhog aka Suji
I never liked Doodh Sooji until recently. In fact, I did not cook it since long. Or it is better to say, I never cooked it before just because I don’t like this Bengali dessert. Growing up in a Ghoti household in Central Kolkata, Dudh Suji was like a staple. Our dinner was never completed…
Chicken Salad
Pasta wanted to have some comforting Chicken Salad last night for dinner along with a smoothie. I quite liked her suggestion and ended on making some salad for dinner. This was when I realized I made the video of chicken salad a year back yet not posted the recipe on my blog. I completely forgot….
Neem Begun (Stir-fried Neem leaves and Eggplant)
This blogpost on Neem Begun was not planned which you can understand by the quality of the pictures I have used. However, I thought to share the recipe of a few dishes including this I am cooking these days while we are isolated and at home to combat the outbreak of COVID-19. All the major…
Chingri diye Pui Metuli Chorchori
I made a list of recipes at the beginning of the year with which I plan to work for the entire year. Last year also I had a plan, however, it is more structured this year. After almost 10 years of recipe writing, now that I have around 500 recipes on the blog, I have…