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A cottage-cheese and reduced milk pudding

Red winter radish cooked in spices

A fried mood-dal 'pithe' with a coconut-jaggery stuffing

Fritters of fish fat, liver and swim bladder (innards)

in a mushroom-pepper sauce

Chickpeas cooked with mutton

Roasted moong dal with a medley of summer vegetables

Spicy fish croquettes

Banana stem cooked in spices

two variations

Or, dahi vada

From Ming Room

Tyangra fish curry with winter radish

Pressure cooker chicken curry

A veritable cutlet from the Russian empire

Curried, new, winter potatoes and peas

A spectacular polao-like khichuri

Prawns steamed in bottle-gourd leaf parcels

Fried green amaranth

Rohu fish curry with summer vegetables

A hot and garlicy dried-fish preparation

Light curry of shingi machh (Asian stinging catfish), with vegetables

Stir-fried jute leaves

with chholar dal (Bengal gram) stuffing

with fish stuffing

Bengali jackfruit curry

A light, midly bitter stew of summer vegetables

Ground poppy-seed fritters

Bhetki fillet in banana leaf parcels

A light chicken curry

Slimy goodness

Crunchy batter-fried jute leaves

Or more accurately, lime and orange tart

An Anglo-Indian take on ribs

Rum and chocolate—could it be any better?

Savoury semolina with seasonal vegetables

A popular Calcutta cabin and streetside dish

The biyebari-style fish kalia that everyone loves

A coconut-and-jaggery sweetmeat

The queen of panchmishali tarkari

Fish cutlet wrapped in a light, fluffy egg covering

Cutlets of Bhetki coated in a piquant marinade

Succulent mutton kathi kabab wrapped in crisp porota

The reigning queen of Bengali kochuris

A light puffed-rice snack

A special dal with fresh fish head

A Bengali classic served with luchi

A Mughlai delicacy with mutton chops

Ash gourd stuffed, then fried

A fun, quick chutney with papaya

A vegetable medley with fresh fish head

Bengali onion fritters

An easy shukto with green papayas

Bengal summer in a bowl

Sweet and sour fish stew for summer

A special Eid-morning dessert

Stuffed paratha with roasted gram flour

A Tagore family recipe

Kolkata street snack of boiled potatoes

Okra in a mustard-poppy sauce

A Bengali vegetarian classic

Banana blossom paturi

An easy korma for special occasions

Potol in fragrant rice

Bitter gourd and pumpkin stir-fry

Drumsticks in a light vegetable medley

Potatoes in a nutty poppy seed gravy

Pan-fried chicken winglets

Three styles of cabbage fritters

Waste nothing!

A Bengali winter pithe

The ultimate Bengali comfort food

Inspired by one of our favourite sandwich joints in New Market, NV Stores!

A chocolate cake for the ages

VIinho de alhos to vindaloo

An old fashioned pudding, with tea-custard sauce

Beaten rice with fresh winter vegetables

Shingara with a potato and cauliflower filling—a winter treat

Spicy potato curry served alongside kochuri at roadside stalls

Bengali road/dhaba-style tadka dal

An Iranian dish comprising chelo (rice) and kabab (barbecued meats)

Chicken kathi kababs wrapped in flaky porota

Calcutta cabin-style egg devils

Not to be confused with Chinatown's wok-fried chow mein

Eaten all over India, this version is unique to Bengal

A Sunday-special mutton curry

Bengali batter-fried sliced brinjals

The secret behind soft rotis/phulkas that stay soft even when cold

Ilish—deep-fried

Hilsa fish steamed in mustard sauce

Crunchy fried chicken in a hot-sour sauce