Bengali Prawn Malai Curry Recipe and Other Stories

Prawn malaicurry recipe: Prawns cooked in Bengali style

About this blog: Prawn Malai Curry is basically a shellfish dish cooked with all the goodness of coconut cream and jumbo prawns and fit to be a royal serving. I have written the recipe of Prawn Malai Curry, which type of prawn you need to buy to make this dish and stories from yester-years when […]

Mitra Cafe Styled Bhetki Fish Fry Recipe from Kolkata and other Stories

Kolkata style Fish fry

About this blog: A tried and tested easy recipe of Calcutta Style Fish Fry and a few stories of eating fish fries around the globe. You can not go to Kolkata and not eat Fish Fry. The breadcrumb coated deep fried Calcutta Bhetki fish fillet is a thing of pride and nostalgia for the city […]

Top 25 Indian Recipes which will Remind you of India Travel!

Bengali celebration thali with fish

Cooking Indian food is a delightful experience. Here are a handful of easy to cook at home Indian recipes. They will take you from North to South and east to west with a wide array of flavours and spices. “Ghraneno Ardhobhojonang”, as the Sanskrit Shloka goes, “Here, half of the meal is bestowed on you […]

Kashmiri Ab Gosht: an Idea Simmering since MILLENNIA

Ab Gosht: Kashmiri meat recipe with lamb/mutton/beet

About this blog: A recipe for Ab Gosht, a meat stew in milk which can be cooked with mutton/lamb/beef. It is a slow cooked meat stew packed with flavors of various spices, predominantly fennel (Mouri) and embarks intense influence from ancient Persia. This particular recipe is drawn on Kashmiri food heritage. Update: Upon showing this […]

Recipe for Amer Tok Dal: Bengali vegan Dishes

AMer tok dal recipe

Amer Tok Dal or Masoor Daal cooked with green mango is a traditional Bengali recipe. It is vegan friendly Bengali local dish. It is a seasonal dish and can put sweet and sour chicken to shame when you prepare it with distinction! Following is a recipe! “This is more expensive than gold”, said the Mango […]

Pabda Macher Tel Jhal: Story of My Dida and My Fondest Food Memory!

Pabda Macher Jhol

While trying to cook a perfect Daab Chingri recipe, I had a serendipitous discovery that I can recreate Dida’s finest Pabda Macher Tel Jhal! It smelled and tasted exactly like that of Dida’s! I was elated. I thought I would share the Pabda recipe with you, along with Dida’s story! It spans across the tumultuous […]

Chingri Diye Laal Shak Bhaja: Red Amaranth Cooked with Prawns!

Laal Shak with Prawns: Shak diye mach bhaja

I have a small patio adjacent to my flat. I try to grow “EXOTIC” and “BENGALI” vegetables there. Vegetables that I do not usually find in Bengaluru. In other times, I keep traveling and hardly have the time to take care of my garden. If the Chili plant kindly supplies me with one fruit I […]

Easy Roti Pocket Recipe: Recreating Mexican Quesadilla in India

Roti pocket recipe: easy Indian quick snack. Roti wrap.

I never knew how to cook Roti until this lockdown happened. Roti was never my mother’s forte either. Our kitchen help would prepare Roti in the evening which we would eat the next morning for breakfast. They would come out crisp hard from micro-oven. That was anything but appetizing. I took interest in cooking Roti […]

Alu Paratha Recipe with a Twist: Best Food memory

How to roll an alu paratha

About this blog: Usually Alu Paratha is made with cooked potato filling. This one is different. Instead of cooked potato, I used boiled potato and barista. This is an easy to make evening snack with minimum spice! This Alu Paratha recipe is very very special. Only my mother made this amazing Paratha. She learnt it […]