Rustic Bengali Style country chicken Curry & Memories of Sundorban Boat ride!

Murgir Jhol: Country chicken

Deshi Murgir Kosha Mangsho with Spice soaring high! About this blog: This Bengali style Kosha Mangsho with chicken is a delightful ethnic Indian recipe, cooked with the gorgeous fiery spices of the subcontinent. I prepared a homemade put full of chicken curry using country chicken  in the iconic Kosha gravy of Kolkata’s Golbari and it […]

Bhetki Macher Kaliya: ROGROGE Bengali Style Barramundi Fish Curry!

Bhetki macher Kaliya recipe (bengali style seabass recipe)

Recipe of Bhetki Kaliya with potato wedges and cauliflower. Just like the way they cook it at Bhojohari Manna, the Bengali restaurant! Bhetki is also known as Barramundi and Asain Seabass. This recipe is easy to replicate with any white fleshed fish and basic Indian spices! Calcutta Bhetki is an enigma in the form of […]

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 […]

Lau Patay Mora Macher Dimer Paturi: Fish roe steamed in Gourd Leaves

macher dimer paturi: fish roe steamed

In case your fish has come home with a stomach full off roes, which is normal in the monsoon season, you are up for an exquisite treat! Gather some coconut, mustard and an edible leaf. Banana leaf will do too! And steam it. You Patui is ready to be devoured! Read all my recipe here: […]

Daab Chingri: cooking Prawns inside a Green Coconut, like a Bengali does!

Daab Chingri Recipe: beautiful food pictures from Bengal

Daab Chingri is a Bengali variant of prawns cooked in tender coconut. It is a classic coastal preparation. You may recreate this recipe with chicken.  Daab Chingri as we call this mellow medley of slow cooked prawns and coconut meat, cooked inside a whole green coconut shell, is as authentic a Bengali dish can get. […]