Bengali Recipes

Aam Bhindi Shorshe Ilish (Hilsa with Okra, Green Mangoes and Mustard)

I remember a rainy afternoon when Mashi cooked Ilish, an overnight catch from Kolaghat which the fishmonger ...

I wake up to the pitter-patter of raindrops on my window pane. A grey morning. A truant sun playing ...

There's something romantic about a grey overcast morning. The sulking clouds. The drunken gales. The ...

Today is Eid-Al-Fitr, the day which marks the end of the holy month of Ramdan, a day synonymous with ...

It's wistful nostalgia for me on this auspicious day of Rathyatra, the chariot festival when the Lord and his ...

I hate bittergourd. I throw up the most ingenious of tantrums the moment bittergourd turns up on my lunch ...

Eggplant, as fresh as can be, plucked this morning from the kitchen garden. Droplets of rain from the ...

Grandma's princess is glum this morning. Incarcerated indoors, thanks to the merciless heat of a tyrannical ...

I potter around my sun-washed kitchen, gazing at the luscious Bay prawns that rest patiently on the black ...

One thing has not changed though over all the years. The child in me still yearns to run to the backyard, as ...

Who would have ever imagined a rustic Pirali Brahmin girl, from a nondescript village in far-flung Jessore, ...

That Grandma is furiously finicky with her rice is an understatement. The grains have to be perfect. The ...