By Begun Pora (Bengali Baingan Bharta) is an utterly delicious Bengali recipe made with roasted eggplant and mustard oil. Begun pora is very simple and quick to prepare and makes a healthy and wholesome meal when served with …
Chicken Dum Biryani Kolkata Style
Kolkata Style Chicken Dum Biryani is light and fragrant with aromatic biryani masala. Succulent chicken pieces with sweet-scented long grain basmati rice is a combination to die for. Unlike other biryani this Mughlai influenced Kolkata chicken biryani is loaded …
Kolkata Style MUTTON BIRYANI
Kolkata Style MUTTON BIRYANI is a phenomenal combination of succulent mutton/lamb pieces with fragrant long grain basmati rice and aromatic spices. Kolkata mutton biryani is quite distinct, as it is light and fragrant. The Mughal influence makes the Bengali mutton …
Ukadiche Modak Traditional Recipe
Traditional Ukadiche Modak Recipe is a popular Maharashtrian steamed sweet that is mainly made and offered during Ganesh Chaturthi. This gluten-free dessert is a rice flour dumpling stuffed with delicious fresh coconut and jaggery filling flavoured with cardamom seeds. Here is …
Vangi Bhaat Maharashtrian Style
Vangi Bhaat is a popular Maharashtrian style onepot rice dish made with aubergine/baingan and freshly homemade goda masala (blend of Indian spices). Vangi Bhaat is spicy, aromatic and very flavourful. This eggplant fried rice along with some raita make a quick, easy and perfect …
Homemade Ghee | How to make Ghee with Butter
Homemade Desi Ghee | How to make Ghee with Butter. “LIQUID GOLD” called Ghee is a versatile and quintessential condiment in each and every Indian house hold. Desi ghee also known as Clarified butter is creamy, rich with a nutty flavour and …
Chicken Hakka Noodles
Chicken Hakka Noodles is a popular Indian street food. Chinese hakka noodles is a quick stir fry of boiled noodles with chicken, lots of veggies and Chinese sauces. This hakka noodles …
Radish Stir Fry With Prawns (Chingri Maach diye Mulo Bhaja)
Radish Stir Fry With Prawns (Chingri Maach diye Mulo Bhaja) is a delicious stir fry that that is easy, quick and on the dinner table in less than 30 minutes. Perfect with hot steaming rice or rotis.
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Mulo Diye Matar Dal (Yellow Split Pea dal with Radish)
Mulo Diye Matar Dal (Yellow Split Pea dal with Radish) is a delicious lentil soup made with sweet, crisp white radish. This luscious Bengali dal flavoured with Indian 5 Spice (panch phoron) and dried red chillies is enjoyed with steaming hot rice or Indian flat bread.
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Chinese Five Spice Chicken Fried Rice
Chinese five spice chicken fried rice is a delicious and aromatic fried rice. This chicken fried rice is a super-easy and a super-speedy supper. Makes a Perfect weeknight meal as it is jam-packed with flavour and it is quick to put together and is so delicious! …
Anda Pulao – Bengali Egg Pulao
Anda Pulao – Bengali Egg Pulao is light and full of flavour, with the right balance of spices and the soft fragrant rice is topped with barista (fried onions) sweet raisins and cashews for that extra crunch.
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Bengali Masoor Dal – Bengali Style Red Lentil Dal
Bengali Masoor Dal – Bengali Style Red Lentil Dal/Soup
Light, healthy and soupy this red lentil soup/dal (masoor dal) is flavoured with loads of fresh tomatoes and coriander leaves and tempered with mustard seeds and dried red chillies. This simple and wholesome everyday Bengali style masoor dal is most satisfying and comforting food of all time.
You can take meat, fish and vegetables away from an Indian, but you cannot take away his dal – “the core of his meal”.
~ Madhur Jaffery (Ultimate Curry Bible)
DAL is a versatile and nutritious and a very satisfying dish. Everyday dal is a staple in each and every household in India and Indian meal is incomplete without dal/lentil soups. This soupy lentil dish you will find in the poorest as well as the richest homes in India.
