by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 24, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
It’s chicken ‘dak’ bungalow and not a ‘duck’ bungalow. Unlike what many think, chicken dak bungalow has nothing to do with duck eggs. And one cannot claim to have an authentic recipe for this particular dish. It is also one of those...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 21, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
The sound of sizzle and roasting and the beautiful smoky aroma on a chilly winter night stir up the olfactory senses. Begun pora with plenty of fresh green coriander leaves, chopped green chillies and mustard oil along with Ma er hather gorom gorom ruti, isn’t it the...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 2, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
West Bengal, particularly Kolkata, is dotted with mishti’r dokan (sweet shops). Walk 2 steps and you will find one. Every lane and by-lane of the city has a sweet shop, each boasting of its speciality. Some make the best roshogolla, some darbesh, sondesh and so...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 30, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
Bengali cuisine is not just varied but there are hundreds of nomenclatures for every kind of food. For us, it’s not a curry for everything or a bhaji for everything. From chorchori to dalna to jhol, to jhal, there are different names given to different foods,...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 27, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
I say superstar or should it be the show-stopper? A typical bijoya platter would consist of kucho nimki, narkel naru, some sondesh and of course ghugni. But then, every once in a while, the humble ghugni is amped up with mutton keema and it becomes mangsher ghugni....
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