Bengali Vegetarian Recipes

with chholar dal (Bengal gram) stuffing

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

The Bengali variant of the South Asian ‘khichdi’, made with nutty, roasted moong dal and fragrant gobindobhog rice.

A bright yellow, sweet Bengali polao redolent with ghee and garnished with fried cashews and raisins.

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

Bengali-style curried new-potatoes cooked in a savoury, tangy sauce, and sprinkled with green peas.

Rice and crunchy veggies with a bengali twist

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

Savoury-sweet preparation of curried split Bengal gram

The queen of panchmishali tarkari

Bengali deep fried puffy bread

Potatoes in a nutty poppy seed gravy

A fun, quick chutney with green papaya

with two variants

Bengali rice pudding with date palm jaggery

A Bengali cauliflower-and-peas curry

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

Curried bottle gourd

Roasted moong dal with fresh, winter veggies

A Tagore family recipe

Chunks of paneer(cottage cheese) in a spicy, comforting sauce

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

A Bengali classic served with luchi

Perfectly seasoned, pan-fried brinjals

Crunchy batter-fried jute leaves

Bengali jackfruit curry

A Kolkata street snack of boiled potatoes

Curried cabbage with potatoes and peas

Waste nothing!

Onion fritters

Okra in a mustard-poppy sauce

Potol cooked with fragrant rice

Made with green unripe banana

Mildly flavoured kolaier dal or urad dal

Ground poppy-seed fritters

A mild, milky curry of bottle gourd

Light, fluffy, mildly-spiced chhana (cottage cheese) dumplings in curry.

A light curry with pointed gourd

A quick stir-fry of bottle-gourd peels.

Banana stem cooked in spices

Cauliflower florets steamed and batter-fried

Bottle gourd cooked with prawns

Banana blossom paturi

An easy shukto with green papaya

Fried potato peels

Bengali mashed potatoes

Light and midly bitter stew of summer vegetables

Bitter gourd and pumpkin stir-fry

A light, casual, alterntive to "basanti" pulao

Pumpkin vine cooked with a medley of vegetables

A stir-fry with onion-blossom stalk

A festive, decadent version of Bengali cauliflower and cottage cheese dalna in a ginger–cumin sauce.

Seasonal cauliflower cooked with fragrant gobindobhog rice

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

Light, crisp batter-fried hummingbird tree flowers

or pakora