Traditional Bengali Recipes

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 ...

Its less than a week to Sankranti and my kitchen is in a manic frenzy cooking a decadent spread of pithe, ...

Grandma sat on a cane mora, her back to the gorgeous winter sunshine, instructing Didi how to prepare the ...

It's long past sunset. The last vestiges of the evening sun have ebbed out. The crimson of the twilight sky ...

A hullabaloo wakes me this chilly morning. Far from amused, I open half an eye to probe what's amiss. Then ...

Not too long back, the world was smaller. I ruminate as I stir my pot of Komola Moong Dal this ...

The Raj, as any colonial historian would remind you, was perpetually on the move. Administering a ...

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

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

The Bengali in me yearns for a posto fix this mellow honey sunshine morning. And even before I ...

You do not need to be a wizard in the kitchen to do justice to prawns. Add them to a stir-fry, throw them ...

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