by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 29, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Prawns are perhaps one of the most sought-after ingredients across coastal regions, sometimes even more than fish. Naturally, there’s a version of prawn pulao or biryani in every part of the coast—Goa, Kerala, Odisha, Andhra, and Bengal. We call them chingri, and...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jul 12, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
Kochupata chingri- creating the video and sharing it on various social media platforms was truly an eye-opening experience for us. One would wonder why. We have been sharing videos on Instagram for the last 4 years and youtube and Facebook quite sporadically. Facebook...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jul 6, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
Shorshe is love for a Bengali. You will rarely find a Bong who does not like shorshe. Couple that with chingri and you have shorshe bhapa chingri, a Bengali classic that arouses passion like none other. Someone once said that the secret to great cooking is to first...
by Anindya | Apr 27, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
For all the readers of this blog, it may often appear that I don’t cook much. Yes I agree I don’t cook that much but it’s untrue that like “cometh the hour cometh the man,” I don’t help her out when it’s needed. I was lucky...
by Anindya | Oct 24, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
How did we first taste Shapla Chingri? It will not be exaggerating to say that this is the invention of the season at our dinner table. The fact that water lilly stem could be used for a recipe and that too with small shrimps, was unimaginable. My mother in law first...
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