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