Deep-fried, puffy bread stuffed with a spiced green-peas-and-hing filling
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.
Curried, new, winter potatoes and peas
Savoury semolina with seasonal vegetables
Beaten rice with fresh winter vegetables
The classic Calcutta fruitcake—a fixture in many homes around Christmas-time—is a rum-soaked, fruit-and-nut encrusted indulgence.
Shingara with a potato and cauliflower filling—a winter treat
Bengali rice pudding with date palm jaggery
A Bengali cauliflower-and-peas curry
A medley of winter vegetables, slow-cooked in their own juices
Chunks of paneer(cottage cheese) in a spicy, comforting sauce
Roasted moong dal with fresh, winter veggies
A Bengali classic served with luchi
Fresh parshe cooked in mustard paste and yoghurt, simmered with flavourful brinjal and dal'er bori.
A tart, creamy lime-orange custard in a flakey, buttery pie—includes bonus tricks to a perfect shortcrust pastry shell!
A Bengali winter pithe
Pressure cooker chicken curry
Curried cabbage with potatoes and peas
Waste nothing!
Or Chitoi Pithe
A super-delicious, super-delicate freshwater fish curry
Decadent, chocolatey, rum-soaked cake pops that are perfect for the holidays and require no baking.
An old fashioned pudding, with tea-custard sauce
Tyangra fish curry with winter radish
A fried mood-dal 'pithe' with a coconut-jaggery stuffing
Red winter radish cooked in spices
Stir-fried spinach
A tender, moist orange and poppyseed 'pound cake' with a sweet-sour orange drizzle
Koi fish cooked with fresh orange juice and seasonal tangerines.
or pakora
Fried brinjal with stalk on
With winter vegetables
A stir-fry with onion-blossom stalk