bengali food

How I fell in love with Tetor Daal? Story of my Kitchen Garden & a Supposedly vegan-friendly bengali recipe!

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Tetor daal: Daal cooked with bitter gourd

Read all my food experiments here: Cookbook As a child I was expected to eat Ucche Bhaja at the start of every meal. If you speak Hindi, you know this vegetable as Karela. Also, Ucche has got an apt English name, the Bitter gourd. Going back to my childhood, I had to see a side … Read more How I fell in love with Tetor Daal? Story of my Kitchen Garden & a Supposedly vegan-friendly bengali recipe!

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

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

Photo Essay: Bakultala Bazar, Kolkata – Cacophony of a Fish Market!

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“Do not make this class a fish market!” our teachers would chide invariably at the onset of a new session post summer holidays! I vaguely remember visiting a fish market, the chaos, the mayhem, the excited middle aged Bengali fathers, in search of the freshest carp! It was not until I started living in Delhi … Read more Photo Essay: Bakultala Bazar, Kolkata – Cacophony of a Fish Market!

Bridging the Border: In Search of Bangladeshi food in Kolkata: Kasturi Restaurant!

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Kasturi Restaurant: One of the Best Bengali Restaurants in Esplanade Area! About this blog: Kasturi Restaurant is an old Bangladeshi place in the heart of Kolkata and is one of the best places to eat in the city. They flare up a typical Bangladeshi meal full of fresh river fish and bhartas. You generally do … Read more Bridging the Border: In Search of Bangladeshi food in Kolkata: Kasturi Restaurant!