After a long time bought some paneer from market. Since my husband is not a big fan of paneer I don’t cook it often. This time I thought to prepare something different with paneer which I never tried before. So I started searching for different recipes on youtube and Sanjeev Continue Reading
Green banana does not happen to be my favourite vegetable for cooking. Still I vowed for the kofta curry made with green banana, whenever my mother used to cook back home. Here in Europe I simply can’t make most of the Bengali regular recipes as the required vegetables are not Continue Reading
“Aloo Matar Paneer” is another delicious preparation from Paneer or Indian cottage cheese and good enough to impress your vegetarian guests. I try to follow a Bengali cooking show, called “Rannaghar”, almost regularly. Once I saw this recipe in one of its episodes, and tried at home to find it Continue Reading
“Alur dom” or Dam aloo” is a common but lovely vegetarian side dish. It goes well with roti, paratha, puri, kachori and pulao. In fact Bengali’s one of the favourite Sunday breakfast is “luchi- alur dom”. Here “Luchi” is nothing but the plain puri. “Luchi & alur dom” is also Continue Reading
“Beguner jhal” or Brinjal in mustard curry is one of the dishes which I cook often. It is super tasty and super easy to prepare. I inherit this recipe from my grand mother. She really knew how to cook simple but tasty dishes. Though my husband is not a fan Continue Reading
Jhinge or ridge gourd is largely a tropical vegetable. Due to its considerable water content, Jhinge is quite useful for health particularly over summer months when you drain a lot. It can be used in several dishes, among which “Jhinge narkol” is my favourite. This is infact my grand mother’s Continue Reading
“Palak paneer”, a popular vegetarian dish, mainly originated in North India. It is nothing but a thick spinach gravy containing cubes of paneer or cottage cheese. In my childhood, I generally know only one dish of spinach, called “Palong saker ghanto” which is a dry preparation accompanied with other vegetables Continue Reading
Lentils or dal goes down as a daily dish in Indian culinary. However to add variety into vegetarian curry choices, lentils particularly Chana dal can be used to make an interesting dish called “Dhokar dalna”. It is rich in taste and self-sufficient to be reckoned as a full fledged Bengali Continue Reading