Spicy potato curry served alongside kochuri at roadside stalls

Beaten rice with fresh winter vegetables

A fun, quick chutney with green papaya

A simple mash of potatoes, onions, garlic, and chillies.

Bengali Masoor dal with onions and panch phoron

Roasted moong dal with fresh, winter veggies

A quick and delicate dal tempered with radhuni, a type of seed that is quite unique to Bengal.

Rohu fish curry with summer vegetables

Sweet and sour mosur dal with green mangoes

Perfectly seasoned, pan-fried brinjals

Crunchy batter-fried jute leaves

Pressure cooker chicken curry

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

A Kolkata street snack of boiled potatoes

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

Onion fritters

Paratha stuffed with roasted gram flour

Okra in a mustard-poppy sauce

Mildly flavoured kolaier dal or urad dal

Light, refreshing toor dal with tomato and coriander

Ground poppy-seed fritters

A mild, milky curry of bottle gourd

A light curry with pointed gourd

Brinjal cooked in a yoghurt sauce

A sweet semolina porridge.

A quick stir-fry of bottle-gourd peels.

A super-delicious, super-delicate freshwater fish curry

Stir-fried jute leaves

Cauliflower florets steamed and batter-fried

Tiny river-shrimp fritters

Bengal summer in a bowl

Fried potato peels

Bengali mashed potatoes

Two easy, delicious pumpkin fries

Bitter gourd and pumpkin stir-fry

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

Stir-fried spinach

Fish fat, liver and intestine fritters

two variations

A stir-fry with onion-blossom stalk

A spicy, fudgy mash of bread beans (sheem).

Ridged gourd and lentil fritters in a poppy-based stew

Fish roe fritters in a spicy sauce

Fish roe fritters

Fried brinjal with stalk on

A quick, fiery chicken liver stir-fry

A side of mashed chicken with fresh herbs

Sun-dried jackfruit seeds, roasted and mashed

A dry stir-fry of banana stem

A sweet rice dish with red winter carrots and dried fruits, a Punjabi delicacy

Light, crisp batter-fried pumpkin flowers—plus a bonus stuffing option!

Light, crisp batter-fried hummingbird tree flowers