Every year, on the last day of the Hindu calendar month of Ashwin , Grandma would cook a special dal. Eight ...
Lentils/Dals
Dimer Torka (Egg Tadka, Dhaba Style)
Delhi was explosion on my food senses. The decadent world of Mughlai cuisine left me spellbound and ...
Lau diye Kacha Moong Dal (Moong Dal with Bottle Gourd)
The giants have been a dismal failure, S and I discuss as we sip our morning coffee. It is the third morning ...
Aam Dal | Bengali Tok er Dal| (Lentils with Green Mangoes)
The shrill of the mobile punctuates the sublime calm of the weekend morning. It’s a friend, the storm last ...
Chingri diye Kolai Dal (Urad Dal with Shrimps)
One autumn evening, Bapi brings home a pair of binoculars. A childhood friend of his had been visiting and he ...
Pujor Ranna | Durga Pujor Bhuribhoj
One day to go and She shall be arriving. My lal-par saree has been laundered and ironed. The kansa has ...
Mati Mahor Dali (Split Black Gram / Urad Dal, Assamese Style)
Growing up in a sleepy hamlet in far-flung Assam was bliss. In the sylvan lap of nature. By the lazy ...
Enchor diye Cholar Dal (Bengali Chana Dal with Green Jackfruit)
The fledgling jackruit tree Dada and I had discovered quite by chance one nondescript evening as we chased ...
Komola Moong Dal (Moong Dal With Oranges)
Not too long back, the world was smaller. I ruminate as I stir my pot of Komola Moong Dal this ...
Kalai Dal (Urad Dal)
And it would be supremely unfair if I did not publish a sequel to my post last week on the sublime Sylheti ...
Rajma Masala (Red Kidney Beans in Tomato-Onion Gravy)
It was largely Bengali cuisine that I grew up on. Clean flavours, austere usage of spices, abundance of ...
Begun Diye Kalai Dal (Urad Dal with Eggplant)
I grew up in a sylvan sleepy hamlet in the far-flung Barak Valley of Assam. Amidst pristine verdant greens. ...