Bengali jackfruit curry

Light and midly bitter stew of summer vegetables

Ground poppy-seed fritters

Or Chitoi Pithe

with sweet chutney

Bhetki fillet in banana-leaf parcels

Mildly flavoured kolaier dal or urad dal

Crunchy batter-fried jute leaves

An Anglo-Indian take on ribs

A slow-cooked stew made from shank meat and marrow bones

Savoury semolina with seasonal vegetables

A popular Calcutta cabin and streetside dish

The biyebari-style fish kalia that everyone loves

A coconut-and-jaggery snack

The queen of panchmishali tarkari

Silky fillets of Bhetki, coated with spicy-green marinade, then crumb coated and fried—a Calcutta specialty!

Succulent mutton kathi kabab wrapped in crisp porota

A light puffed-rice snack

A Bengali classic served with luchi

A fun, quick chutney with green papaya

Pui shaak chorchori with fish head

Onion fritters

Fried potato peels

An easy shukto with green papaya

Bengal summer in a bowl

with steps to cut mourola at home

A special Eid-morning dessert

Paratha stuffed with roasted gram flour

A slow-cooked stew of meat and whole grains

Made with green unripe banana

A Tagore family recipe

A Kolkata street snack of boiled potatoes

Okra in a mustard-poppy sauce

Fried lentil cakes in a flavourful sauce

Banana blossom paturi

An easy korma for special occasions

Potol cooked with fragrant rice

Bitter gourd and pumpkin stir-fry

Potatoes in a nutty poppy seed gravy

Drums of heaven

or pakora