“Shahi Chicken Korma” is another delicious recipe from my earlier collections. Though I jot down the recipe long time back, I made it for the first time and as the name reveals the outcome was really “Shahi” or royal in taste. What sets this recipe apart from the other chicken 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
Chicken butter masala or Butter chicken is one of my favourite restaurant dishes. When I wish to eat “nan” or “paratha”, I usually order this item as side dish. It goes well with “pulao” too. To prepare it at home I started looking for its recipe in youtube and was 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
“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
Bengalis are very fond of fishes which feature mandetorily in their daily diet. Mainly those fishes are sweet water ones and are quite different from the sea-fishes. In Europe, among various kinds, Salmon ranks high due to its unparallel taste with thick flesh and smoothy fat. We mostly go for Continue Reading
“Chanar kalia” or Cheese ball curry is a delicious Bengali side dish. This vegetarian dish goes down very well with Roti, Paratha or even with Plain rice and Pulao. If you don’t have “paneer” in your stock and you are scratching your head to come up with a special vegetarian Continue Reading
Prawns, however often touted by perfectionists as a sea food not really featuring on the fish category, actually hold high status for us Bengali/Indians as a celebrated fish item and even remain as demanding as Hilsha, the undoubted queen of fishes. Prawns particularly the large ones like tiger prawn make Continue Reading