The word Paturi literally means wrapped in leaves. Traditionally kolapata or banana leaves are used to prepare paturis. They not only serve as a wrap to parcel the fish but also imparts their flavor to the dish. Soft under matured banana leaves are perfect to use for paturi as …
Subho Mahalaya and Biswakarma Puja to all my readers!!! Bengali’s love for desserts is not a secret and no celebration is complete without a dessert. Rasgulla and rasmalai are one of the popular desserts of West Bengal. And you can call this dish as one …
I was in my school then. Getting down the bus, we(me and my sister) used to run to reach home only to watch a television soap which was popular on Doordarshan. This was the television time created by us before our music or tution teacher …
ChalKumro/Ashgourd gets its name from the fact that it is grown on chal (roof of the house). This is yet another classic preparation from my grandmother’s kitchen. The stuffing of mustard paste gives a perfect zing to this chalkumro pur. Chalkumror Pur is often served …
As mentioned to you earlier, I am a “bati” (half bangal and half ghoti) :D. Therefore, I love chingri maach (prawns) and ilish maach(Hilsa) equally. While here I do not get Hilsa at all, salmon suffices the gap to some extent. But prawns are here …
Chhatu or Sattu is often consumed as drink in summer particularly in Bihar and by many Bihari immigrants in Bengal. while making a barfi from Sattu is not very common, I had this barfi once brought home by one of my father’s colleague from Bihar. …
Dum pukht or Dum is a cooking skill in which food is slow cooked over a lazy flame. Dum means ‘to cook food on low flame’ and pukht means ‘process of cooking’. This is how the name “dumpukht” has been coined. The most popular dish cooked in this style is Dum …
It’s Sunday morning. Lazily, I wake up and enter the kitchen for preparing the day’s meal. Sunday is almost fixed to “meat day” in my house. As I was marinading the meat to prepare kosha mangsho, my husband tells me. Ajke kichu special rice banao. …
I quiet remember, when I was a child my mother used to bring some cookies home from a local bakery in Jalpaiguri/ siliguri. All I remembered about the taste now, was it had lot of kalojeera in it. It has been more than a year …
To tell you honestly, I did not grow up eating doi begun. This is something, my mother never cooked at home. One day, me and my husband were sitting down in our living room when he told me that in his hostel days, they were …