by Madhushree Basu Roy | Sep 10, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Chal’er payesh is the OG of all Bengali desserts, but when you want a failsafe, quick dessert, chhana’r payesh is the winner. Chhana or chhena (that’s how it is known in the rest of India) is basically fresh cheese made from curdled milk. This cheese...
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 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....
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Dec 6, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
We Bengalis love deep-fried food and most of our street food is deep-fried. Chicken cutlet is popular street food from Kolkata. Kolkata-style chicken cutlet is usually made with minced chicken. Kolkata style chicken cutlet Bengali chicken cutlet is made with minced...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 2, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
This season, I learnt to make shaplar bhyala. I tell Tugga all the time, learning never ends. Be it photography, house work, styling, cooking, baking, whatever we do, we are constantly learning. And even though, this was just some fritter (some would say), I was...
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