Bengali Recipes

Peyajkoli Komola Murgi (Chicken with Oranges and Onion Stalks)

I seek inspiration this morning. Something novel. Something I have never attempted before. I sit ...

A honey sunshine morning. A verdant green hillock of shelled pea pods stands in front of Didi, fatigued ...

I sit on the welcoming red oxide floor of Grandma's bedroom, the windows overlooking the verdant garden open ...

The jackfruit sapling, that Dada and I discovered quite accidentally during one of our evening hide-and-seek ...

The incredibly bony virtually inedible gada of the prized chitol maach rests on a kansa thala in front of ...

The laal shaak resting pretty on the kitchen counter draws me to a listless afternoon decades back. The ...

Needless to reiterate, we Bengalis love our fish. And over hundreds of years, we have been intrepid ...

The plump line-caught Bay of Bengal prawns that rest on my kitchen counter this morning pose infinite ...

There are days when wallowing in idle ruminations gives me the most sublime of pleasures. If this were a ...

Yet another lazy Sunday morning. I idle around the house. Aimlessly. Fuss around with the ...

I adore my greens. A trait I believe I inherited from Grandma. Greens were indisputably Grandma's favorites ...

So when my eyes greet the gorgeous shimmering silver parshe at the Manicktala fish market during my recent ...