with chholar dal (Bengal gram) stuffing
Deep-fried, puffy bread stuffed with a spiced green-peas-and-hing filling
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
Rice and crunchy veggies with a bengali twist
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
Fried lentil cakes in a flavourful sauce
A fun, quick chutney with green papaya
Kolkata-style, crumb-coated, vegetable cutlet made with winter vegetables like beetroot and carrots, and boiled potatoes.
with two variants
A Tagore family recipe
A Bengali cauliflower-and-peas curry
Curried bottle gourd
A quick and delicate dal tempered with radhuni, a type of seed that is quite unique to Bengal.
Crunchy batter-fried jute leaves
A Bengali classic served with luchi
A Kolkata street snack of boiled potatoes
Bengali jackfruit curry
Onion fritters
Curried cabbage with potatoes and peas
Waste nothing!
Okra in a mustard-poppy sauce
Potol cooked with fragrant rice
Made with green unripe banana
Ground poppy-seed fritters
A light curry with pointed gourd
A mild, milky curry of bottle gourd
Mildly flavoured kolaier dal or urad dal
A quick stir-fry of bottle-gourd peels.
Cauliflower florets steamed and batter-fried
Banana blossom paturi
Banana stem cooked in spices
Fried potato peels
An easy shukto with green papaya
Bengali mashed potatoes
Light and midly bitter stew of summer vegetables
Bitter gourd and pumpkin stir-fry
Bottle gourd cooked with prawns
or pakora