Bengali Recipes From Grandmas Kitchen

Mugshapta | Moongshapta (Yellow Moong Dal Crepes with a Coconut Jaggery Filling)

Dada is super-excited. Almost gasping for breath, he tries to awaken me from sleep. Still in a realm of ...

As a run up to Christmas, I am cooking Anglo-Indian recipes this entire fortnight. Pies and puddings. ...

And it would be supremely unfair if I did not publish a sequel to my post last week on the sublime Sylheti ...

I think it would not be a hyperbole if I remarked that all cooks, amateur or professional, have an unabashed ...

One of those mad hatter mornings with a daunting roster of to-dos. And as it inevitably happens on such ...

I grew up in a sylvan sleepy hamlet in the far-flung Barak Valley of Assam. Amidst pristine verdant greens. ...

Luscious duck eggs. Fried batons of potato and eggplant. The earthiness of panchforon. Chillies if you love ...

Grandma's cooking prowess was legendary. The only indulgence she allowed herself, despite her spartan ...

If jhals, jhols and dalnas, indigenous to Bengal, are soulful, humble and unpretentious, kalias and kormas ...

The milk sits on the gas stove. Impatiently. I stir the pot occasionally. To pacify the rebellions ...

I sit ruminating this morning, thinking of the origins of Bengali cuisine and the influences that have shaped ...

Another one of those family favorites for a lazy Sunday lunch. Tear-jerking spicy, yet so delectable that you ...