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This Kumro Bhaate, also known as ‘kumro bhorta’ is a simple Bengali side dish where kumro or pumpkin is cooked till soft and tender and then mashed with a couple of ingredients. This kumro bhate recipe is mostly served with rice for a lunch meal and is consumed at the beginning of the meal.
Kanchkolar Khosa’r Ghonto or Kanchkola’r Khosa Bata is a unique Bengali side dish where the peels of green banana or plantain are smashed and cooked into a pate. This is mildly spicy and is usually served with rice. This kanchkolar khosa bata recipe is an excellent example of how Bengali cuisine often turns discards and wastes into a delicacy.
This is a classic bhapa chingri recipe where the prawns are smeared with a paste of mustard seeds, poppy seeds and grated coconut, and steamed inside a parcel made of lau pata or bottle gourd leaves. Quite a unique rendition of chingri macher paturi recipe where the prawn mix is rolled up inside an envelope of edible leaves of lau patay, instead of kolapata or banana leaves. Hence making the entire dish edible. Amazing right, how we Bengalis can turn anything into an exotic delicacy!
Matka Kulfi is an Indian summer dessert where milk is thickened with chopped nuts and saffron before freezing them in, either terracotta moulds (known as matka or matki) or conical kulfi moulds. It is kind of a no-churn Indian ice cream that is rich, creamy and has chopped nuts in it. With a little bit of planning and overnight chilling, I will tell you how to make some delicious homemade kesar-badam matka kulfi using Milkmaid or condensed milk.
This Ol Bhaate, also known as ‘ol makha’ is a simple Bengali side dish where elephant foot yam or suran is cooked till soft and tender and then mashed with couple of ingredients. This oal bhate recipe is mostly served with the rice for a lunch meal, and is consumed in the beginning of the meal. Like most of the Bengali daily cooking recipes, it is simple, hassle-free and easy to digest recipe.
This Egg Drop Curry is perhaps, the easiest Egg Curry recipe that you will ever come across. Here, a gravy of onion, tomato, ginger and garlic is prepared and in the end, little wells are made where each egg is dropped and allowed to cook. Fascinating right? No need to boil eggs beforehand and no need to peel eggs. A simple one-pan egg curry recipe that can be served with both rice as well as rotis or chapattis.