Spicy, curried snack made with yellow peas

Rice and crunchy veggies with a bengali twist

Kolkata-style diamond-shaped breaded chicken

Calcutta’s most popular and iconic street food

Easy pan-fried, ground mutton or beef kababs

This crispy, tangy, savoury 'chaat' is a popular Calcutta street food dished out by phuchkawalas and is super easy to make.

A hearty Bengali Ilish (Hilsa) curry that takes just six ingredients and 30 minutes to cook.

A Tibetan steamed bread

A dry roasted Bengali spice blend

A pan-fried flatbread stuffed with a filling of mashed potatoes

This is the classic recipe for hilsa/ilish in a mustard sauce, steamed in banana-leaf parcels.

A runny, comforting, fragrant khichuri for divine offerings or unexpected rains

A mild, milky curry of bottle gourd

A light curry with pointed gourd

A slow-cooked stew of meat, grains, and pulses.

Calcutta restaurant style prawn cocktail

Moog dal with bitter melon and bottle gourd

Curried bottle gourd

A handy, simple and versatile keema recipe for a variety of fillings

The sub-continent’s favourite snack with a deliciously meaty twist

A quick and simple recipe of batter-fried bitter gourd rings.

Sweet and sour mosur dal with green mangoes

Pockets of kheer, sealed with a clove, deep fried, and coated with sugar syrup

Hot and spicy, decadent and comforting

A quick stir-fry of bottle-gourd peels.

Bengali (whole) five-spice mix

Cauliflower florets steamed and batter-fried

Roasted moong dal with fresh, winter veggies

A medley of winter vegetables, slow-cooked in their own juices

CTC tea steeped in milk, and flavoured with ginger, cloves and cardamom.

Perfectly seasoned, pan-fried brinjals

A simple technique for that much-yearned-for jhurjhure bhaat

A Kolkata cabin speciality

Curried cabbage with potatoes and peas

A fragrant blend of three simple spices

Bengali mashed potatoes

Bengali deep fried puffy bread

Bengali egg curry

A Bengali cauliflower-and-peas curry