With the availability of seasonal cauliflower and fresh prawns, our lunch last Sunday was comforting with Phulkopi Aloo diye Chingri Kaliya. Though available all through the year now, cauliflower, even today is a winter favorite. This curry with cauliflower I am talking about is a Bengali staple. We cook different curries using it and complementing it…
Egg Tadka | Kolkata street-style Dim Torka
Egg Tadka aka Dim Torka is a street-side special in West Bengal. The version without egg is equally good and we just call it Tadka or Torka here in Bengal. Another version that we eat is cooked with chunks of meat and depending on the type of meat used is called Mutton Tadka, Chicken Tadka,…
Biyebarir Fish Butter Fry aka Bhetki Batter Fry
Biyebarir Fish Butter Fry is one delicacy (amongst a few more) that we the 80s kids (and even before) enjoyed during our childhood which I suppose the millennials did not. To them, it is Bhetki Batter Fry if at all they are lucky to have this during a marriage feast! While frying the Bhetki batter…
Nalli Nihari | Mutton Nihari Recipe | Gosht Nihari
Nalli Nihari is something that I cook every winter and yet I haven’t written the recipe over the years. One of the main reasons was the pictures. I wasn’t able to click the pictures over the years or whatever I captured I wasn’t happy with those. I have eight sets of Nihari pictures available from…
Joggi Barir Mangsho| Biyebarir Mutton Curry
Joggi Barir Mangsho for sure is not an SEO friendly title. The tech geeks would suggest me to use an SEO friendly title for the Bengali Mutton curry such as Mangshor Jhol or Kosha Mangsho to get more views. However, that would not be justified considering Joggi Barir Mangsho is not regular Mangsher Jhol or…
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…
Ilish Mach er Dim Bhuna | Ilish Mach er Dim er Jhuri
It’s been a long I was planning to post the recipe of Ilish Mach er Dim Bhuna yet I was not able to make it. The reason is nothing but the availability of Ilish Mach-er dim aka Hilsa roe in bulk. However, the last week’s purchase had more than enough roe to make the Ilish…
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…
