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. … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

Kancha Lonka Murgi/Chicken in Green CHILIES sauce (Oh Calcutta Style)

Kancha Lonka Murgir Jhol: chicken curry with green chillies

About this blog: A fiery hot Chicken Curry recipe from Bengali kitchen. Kancha Lonka Murgi (Morich Murgi) is best eaten with rice or bread. It is tender pieces of chicken cooked in Green chili- coriander paste, with green chilies dominating dominating the flavor! It is one of the unique and forgotten recipes of Bengal! Chicken … Read more

Recipe for Meen Molly/Molee/Kerala Fish stew: Memory of Ginger house, Kochi

meen mouli recipe. Kerala fish stew recipe.

About this blog: A simple Kerala fish stew recipe I recreated at home in times of lock-down! Meen Molly/Moilee/Molee is a mild spiced fish stew in coconut milk! Also read: Complete Guide to Offbeat things to do in Goa! We journeyed all the way from Bangalore to Kochi on a night bus. Upon getting down … Read more

The Potato in Mutton Biryani of Kolkata and Where to Find The Best One!

Arsalan Mutton Biryani: Best Kolkata Biryani

About this blog: Kolkata biryani stands as a triumph on the face of food fascists. Not just the present political skirmishes but it survived the British colonists, the riot that rendered partition to the subcontinent and whatever followed suit. It made its way to the commoners from the lavish regal kitchen with elan. Unequivocally, it … Read more

Chittoda’s Dokan at Dacre’s Lane: Home to Kolkata’s Finest Street Food!

About this blog: Kolkata, the grandmother of all Indian mega-cities, has received many an accolade for her intense street food culture. Dacre’s Lane in Kolkata is one of the oldest surviving street food hubs, that traces back history in the eventful days of British Raj. The fact that Dacre’s Lane features few century old food joints, which … Read more