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