Doi ilish recipe with step by step pictures. Doi ilish is a classic Bengali hilsha fish curry made with hilsa fish, simmered in mustard oil with mustard(shorshe) paste and yoghurt (curd) based gravy. Due to using mustard or shorshe this recipe is also known as doi shorshe ilish. When mustard-green chili paste is added with … Read more
Sorshe ilish, aka shorshe ilish, is a traditional Bengali recipe mainly featuring ilish mach(hilsa fish) and shorshe bata (mustard paste). Making this fish curry, we need ilish maach(hilsa fish), black mustard seeds(shorshe), nigella seeds(kalojeera), tomato, green chilli and mustard oil. The combined pungent flavour and taste of mustard paste and mustard oil make it very … Read more
Malpua recipe | Bengali khoya malpua – a Janmashtami special sweet Indian pancake with a juicy sugar syrup coating. Made with maida/flour, khoya, suji, milk, and coconut, fried in ghee, flavored with fennel cardamom spiced up with black pepper, and lastly coated with sugar syrup. Contain a soft juicy base with slightly crispy edges. This … Read more
Chicken kosha (also known as kosha murgir mangsho) is an authentic Indian Bengali style dark colour chicken curry with a thick gravy made by chicken cooked in mustard oil with spices without adding water. Goes well with white rice, Bengali fried rice, Basanti Pulao, Luchi, porotha or with plain roti or phulka. I said this … Read more
authentic radhaballavi recipe – bengali radhaballavi, an ideal breakfast idea among bengalis breakfast recipes for any weekend or when you are in a festive mood, which is a part of our traditional bengali cuisine. But we Bengalis are always in, to serve our tummy with this authentic radhaballavi or flavourful dal puri. After searching a high … Read more
Dim kosha is a thick and spicy onion & garlic based delicious Bengali boiled egg curry cooked with or without aloo. To make this dish, boiled eggs are fried in oil and cooked in an onion, garlic, tomato based gravy flavoured with garam masala powder. Due to its thick gravy, this egg curry mainly goes … Read more
mochar chop is a traditional and highly demandable Bengali snack. It’s basically mochar cutlet as we Bengalis generally identify the chop as dipped in a gram flour batter before frying it in oil. And whereas, the cutlet is nicely coated in breadcrumbs before deep frying in oil and this mochar chop is following the later one. Mocha … Read more
ilish macher paturi or ilish paturi recipe with step by step pictures. Monsoon has already started everywhere in India, and we Bengalis are ready to relish our delicacy with Ilish. Though nowadays Ilish is almost available through the year, though Ilish in monsoon is renowned for its taste and aroma. Almost every Bengali, who loves … Read more
Bengali vegetable fried rice(aka Bengali white pulao or ghee bhat) is one of my family’s favourite dishes, so I often prepare it at home. This Bengali vegetable fried rice is made with fine basmati rice or dehradun rice, ghee, carrot, beans, cashew, kismish and a few whole spices. Slighly sweet, ghee and whole spices flavoured, … Read more
Chicken roll recipe – learn how to make Kolkata street food Bengali chicken roll recipe with step-by-step pictures. Chicken roll is basically chicken-wrapped paratha with onion salad. Basically cooked boneless chicken pieces (boneless kabab pieces) are wrapped in a fried paratha with lime juice and onion slices. It originally comes from Kolkata and is similar … Read more
