The dekchi of milk, golden yellow, sits patiently on the mud oven. The first rays of the nascent sun, yet ...
Bengali Recipes
Chanar Payesh (Bengali Style Cottage Cheese Milk Pudding )
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Mete Chorchori (Stir-fried Goat Liver, Bengali style)
Another one of those family favorites for a lazy Sunday lunch. Tear-jerking spicy, yet so delectable that you ...
Loitya Maacher Jhuri Bhaja | Lote Maacher Jhuri (Spicy stir-fried bombay duck)
What other than food to bring back waves of nostalgia !! That taste of a lamb curry I had many winters back ...
Sheem Pur (Stuffed flat bean fritters)
Sheem Pur, a family favorite from those days gone by - the humble sheem (flat beans) stuffed with the ...
Chirer Pulao, Bengali style
Evening descends on hushed tiptoes. Surreptitiously. Crimson and vermilion smother the last vestiges of blue ...
Kolkata Chicken Biryani
The dekchi sits snugly on the fire. Her lid sealed firmly by flour dough. A few lazy charcoal pieces idle on ...
Ilish Er Tel Jhol ((Hilsa in a Light Gravy)
The sizzling sun has disappeared behind a grey veil of ominous nimbus. There's a lull. An uncanny calm. I ...
Ilish (Hilsa) Biryani
Today is Eid-Al-Fitr, the day which marks the end of the holy month of Ramdan, a day synonymous with ...
Tomato Chutney, Bengal style
A Bengali meal is never complete without tomato chutney- a symphony of fresh tomatoes, plump raisins, ...
Motorshuti Diye Bhaja Moong Dal (Bengali moong dal with peas)
The unmistakable nutty scent draws me, just awaken by the cacophony of birds in the backyard trees, to the ...
Aamer Puli (Fried Mango Calzones with a Chocolate Mango Sauce)
Bhaja puli is a traditional sweet made in Eastern India households typically on occasion of the Makar ...












