Calcutta’s most popular and iconic street food

Deep-fried, puffy bread stuffed with a spiced green-peas-and-hing filling

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

Drums of heaven

Calcutta cabin-style egg devils

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

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

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

Spicy, curried snack made with yellow peas

Bengali deep fried puffy bread

Kolkata-style diamond-shaped breaded chicken

Savoury semolina with seasonal vegetables

A Kolkata cabin speciality

Beaten rice with fresh winter vegetables

Kolkata-style, crumb-coated, vegetable cutlet made with winter vegetables like beetroot and carrots, and boiled potatoes.

Shingara with a potato and cauliflower filling—a winter treat

with sweet chutney

Crunchy batter-fried jute leaves

A Bengali winter pithe

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

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

Onion fritters

Paratha stuffed with roasted gram flour

Or Chitoi Pithe

Samosa with mutton keema filling

Easy pan-fried, ground mutton or beef kababs

Or, dahi vada

A sweet semolina porridge.

Spicy fish croquettes

Cauliflower florets steamed and batter-fried

Bengal summer in a bowl

Tiny river-shrimp fritters

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

Chickpeas cooked with mutton

Fried potato peels

A light potato curry

A light potato curry

A cottage-cheese and reduced milk pudding

Elegant saffron-laden rice koftas—a recipe from Pragyasundari Debi's cookbook.

A palmyra fruit pudding

made with taal (palmyra) pulp

or pakora

Eaten all over India, this version is unique to Bengal

A coconut-and-jaggery snack