Tal also known as Palmyra fruit, mainly found over Indian subcontinent and south Asia is a impersonation of sweetness. It holds a very important cultural symbolism in India, particularly in Tamil culture it is called “katpaha tharu” or “celestial tree”. In Bengal, the tall Tal tree captured literary imagination of Continue Reading
We must be quite familiar with the sweet from Bengal, called Sandesh. It is usually prepared from ‘chena’ or cottage cheese and often given different flavours with date palm jaggery, chocolate, mango, strawberry etc. Today my recipe is about Aam Sandesh aka mango flavoured sandesh. Throughout the summer this yellow Continue Reading
Kheer Patol/ Patol Mishti is a unique preparation of a sweet dish where the sweetness is blended with the taste and texture of a vegetable. It is like unraveling a secret treasure as the flavour of kheer is moulded around by a soft cover of parwal or patol and slowly Continue Reading
Some of the dishes are so fascinating in their looks and presentation that we get instantly drawn to them. Daab Chingri is such a dish which evokes a story through the image of prawns resting on the Green Coconut. Equally fascinating is its stint with Bengali food fantasy since long. Prawns Continue Reading
Pointed Gourd (Patol or Parwal) has never been one of my favourites throughout my growing years. However, off late, I started liking it as a summer vegetable. In fact it would be no exaggeration to call it a wonder vegetable because of its multipurpose utility. Parwal can be used in Continue Reading
It has been quite a while since I prepared any new fried sweet. While pondering over what could be an interesting recipe, I zeroed on a bengali speciality called Chanar Jilipi which is one of my favourites of this genre. As the name suggests, it follows a jilipi or jalebi Continue Reading
Amidst lock-down, while everything is shut off, I was dearly missing my daily dose of fish curry. All of a sudden, got hold of good half a kilo of fresh Katla fish which demanded some special treatment. What else could be better to prepare a rich katla curry with creamy Continue Reading
Chicken Kosha is a very common preparation in bengali households. I often include the item in my Sunday lunch menu or while serving guests in our house. This is a spicy and dry curry of chicken in contrary to my earlier post ‘Murgir Jhol‘ which is a light dish of Continue Reading
How much can you experiment with your favourite dishes, they still remain dear in traditional forms. Likewise, although I have tried so many innovative dishes with mutton, mutton kosha is something most alluring to me. ‘Kosha Mangsho’ is a rich preparation of mutton with a thick brownish gravy almost dried. Continue Reading
Off late, I realised that I have hardly shared much of an interesting egg recipe in my blog. Dim kosha / Egg curry is the common and regural preparation at my kitchen. The recipe is already present in my blog along with another interesting recipe of ‘Dudh Dim or Egg Continue Reading