“Hey, I am done with the cooking! We are serving Luchi, Rosogollar Dalna, Narkel diye Cholar Dal, Dokhar Dalna. There will be Tomato, Khejur, Amsotto Chutney and Monohara also!” I informed Mehebub while tempering the Dal. We were about the welcome our family friends who are strictly vegetarian! Hence, every single dish I cooked were vegetarian last…
Aam Kasundi Murgi aka Bengali Style Chicken in Mango Mustard Sauce
A chicken preparation, these days Pasta’s favorite and I cooked almost thrice last month is, Aam Kasundi Murgi. Needless to say, it is enough for me to come up with the recipe of Aam Kasundi Murgi here in Debjanir Rannaghar. After all, the recipe is approved by my munchkin. Another reason, for sure is, the simple cooking…
Lomba Dantiwala Begun Bhaja and Gol Muchmuche Begun Bhaja, two avatars of Bengali fried Eggplant!
Can Begun Bhaja be a recipe I should write! Is it at all worth writing this super easy recipe! After all, Begun Bhaja is nothing but fried eggplant quoted with turmeric and salt (I use little chili powder as well). Then I asked myself, is it about what I must or what I want and…
Panch Mishali Tarkari, a Bongo-fied Mix-veg! Panch Mishali Torkari Recipe
“We will be at your place on Sunday”; my mother called & informed the day before! She disconnected the call without giving me the chance to inform her that my house-help will be on leave! Gosh, I was planning to not to cook anything this entire weekend! I had a plan to bake several things and…
Kumror Chakka, the recipe and a mother’s wish for her daughter’s Biyer bhoj!
“Dolon the gala spread on the day of your marriage must include Kumror Chakka, Dantiwala Begun Bhaja, and Luchi along with at least 6-7 fish items. I want to set up “Vien” for the sweets as well!” My mother used to say this whenever there was a discussion on my marriage years back. I have seen her…
Mawa Ghater Ilish Macher Lejar Bhorta | Ilish Macher Bhorta
Thanks to the Sunday cleaning of the refrigerator, I realized I have 8 pieces of “Leja” piece of Ilish Mach (Hilsa fishtail) available with me! Naturally, I started thinking immediately what to do with the box full of Leja I stored! My solution was quite simple though; I utilized the Leja pieces to make Mawa…
Ilish Macher Korma & the weird couple’s fishy tête-à-tête! | Ilish Macher Korma step by step recipe
“Cara do you know how to make Ilish Macher Korma? I mean the authentic one!” “Why do you ask? BTW I know how to make the Ilish Macher Korma though I can not comment on the authenticity! You know, there is nothing called authentic, food goes through the evaluation as well! At least that is what I feel” “Got it,…
Lau Chingri recipe (from the pages of Gopal Bhnar storybook)!
Lau Chingri (Bottle Gourd cooked with Prawns) is a quintessential Bengali delicacy cooked with no onion and no garlic. This is a typical “Ghonto” (Ghonto is the Bengali term depicted for a mushy vegetable dish cooked with a little bit of ginger, ghee, and sugar, at least this is how it was referred by Bengali…
Narkel diye Niramish Ghugni | Bengali No Onion No Garlic Ghugni or Yellow Peas Curry with Fried Coconut
Be it after Bijaya Dashami or any uninformed visit to her, Dida was always kind enough to cook the best Niramish Ghugni for me over the years with fried sliced Coconut. Neither dry nor runny, a bit messy and with a few peas intact, with the fainted smell of Ghee, Narkel diye Niramish Ghugni was…
Kolkata style Chicken Bharta | Down the memory lane with Chicken Bharta
My memory of Chicken Bharta always took me back to the college days or more specifically, the period when I have completed BSc and was struggling with the Master’s course. That was for the first time I left a metro city to study Rural Management and was based in a suburb of West Bengal, Kalyani….