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 Bengali deep fried pastry with a delicious filling of biuli’r (urad) dal spiced with fennel seeds, ginger and green chillies.

A light puffed-rice snack

A Bengali classic served with luchi

Double chops of mutton, marinated with spices and creamy yoghurt and roasted until juicy and smoky.

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

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

Slow-cooked beef pot roast with vegetables—a Christmas-special Anglo-Indian recipe.

Vinho de alhos

An old fashioned pudding, with tea-custard sauce

An easy and hearty Bengali moog-mosur dal with ripe winter tomatoes and fresh coriander

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)