Bengali Recipes

Shorshe Ilish (Hilsa in Mustard)

Shorshe Ilish. Mustard, the undisputed King of zing in the Bengali kitchen, romances the gorgeous Queen of ...

This dark overcast morning, an uncanny ominous lull around, the birds and bees nowhere to be sighted, the ...

That the colonialists left an indelible impression on the canvass of Calcutta, for long, the second capital ...

As I shave the parwals and remove their innards in preparation of my potoler niramish dolma, I cannot help ...

Goalondo Steamer Curry. The story behind how a boatman's unpretentious chicken curry with the most basic of ...

I grew up in Assam, where Makar sankranti is celebrated as bhogali bihu, which is mainly a harvest festival ...

All it takes, and don't dismiss this to be a hyperbole, is a couple of drops to elevate the ...

Every man, much to the wife's consternation, stands tall on the claim that his mother cooks the most sublime ...

Its often joked that the Bengali gastronome travels the world, but returns home to savour his maacher jhol ...

With chingri posto this morning, I continue my sojourn on Posto enthusiasm. This time its the delectable ...

And then God invented Sundays. The day of the Sabbath. The day of celebrating the art of doing ...

Bengalis love their dal. A lunch is never quite complete without a good hearty dal, typically masoor (red ...