My recent client really allowed me to explore and stretch my cooking skills. I always love developing recipes, and when it’s a fusion, my imaginations go wild free. During the years i have developed various fusion recipes but today my creation has definitely gone to another level. I mean who could have ever thought of making a sauce with bottled mango drink and using it to pan sear a chicken! Yes, this is spicy, sweet, tangy and a roller coaster of flavors in one single dish. Spicy Mango Pan Seared Chicken is one such fusion recipe, which i loved making…
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Cholar Dal is Bengal gram lentils cooked in coconut and spices. Slightly sweet in flavor and very aromatic because of usage of pure ghee, this dal is cooked in a very typical way by monitoring carefully as it shoud not get mashed completely. The very famous lentil dish from West Bengal, that is served with hot and fluffy luchi specially on the occasion of Jamai Shosti, where the Son-in-Law is served this along with many other delicacies in the platter. Chana Dal usually takes more time to cook as compared to other lentils, hence you can opt for the pressure…
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Life gives us seasons and reasons for everything. One such favorite season that gives us enough reasons to enjoy all mouth watering dishes is Monsoon. Rains and food goes hand in hand. In India Monsoon is celebrated with garam garam Bhajiyas, hot cup of tea and lot’s of gossip over it. One such delectable and mouth watering Monsoon snack is Crispy Spicy Aloo Chaat. Deep fried diced potatoes later spiced with Indian spices and teemed up with onion, tomatoes, green chilies, some savory sev, curd and tamarind chutney to give a spicy tang flavor. So next time, when it rains…
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Chingiri Paturi or Prawn Paturi is a famous traditional dish from Bengal cuisine that also belongs to the coastal region of West Bengal. Prawns cooked with minimum ingredients are parceled in banana leaf and then steamed is a delicious recipe that comes from my mother’s diary. The dish is typically enjoyed with plain hot rice with a tinge of lemon on it. Perks of being born in a multi-cultural family! Yours truly is a proud daughter who comes from a Rajasthani father and a Bengali mother. Two contrast cuisines but certainly one of the best in India. I have always…
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Veg Mango Kothey is an Indo-Chinese snack that is made with various vegetable fritters tossed with sauces. Veg Mango Kothey is my version of creating a new recipe that is crispy, saucy and gives you an amazing fruity punch. The fruity flavor is acquired by Mango drink. You can use any bottled mango drink like frooti/ slice/ paperboat etc available in store near by to you. The recipe can also be made by using orange drink or juice if you prefer to have a orangish flavor. Vegetables like, cabbage, capsicum, carrots, potato, onion and cauliflower coated with plain flour and…
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Unique char flavored mix vegetable dish from West Bengal that is delicious, aromatic and introduce you with the flavors of Bengal cuisine is ChorChori also known and pronounced as CharChari. Its basically a dry vegetable dish that has various versions like Alu Chorchori is made with Potatoes, Alu-Fulkopi Chorchori is a dry dish with Potatoes and Cauliflower, Begun Chorchori is made with Brinjal as the main ingredient and so on. Mix vegetable chorchori is typically eaten with plain steamed rice and dal. Being brought up in a multi-cultural family, i always got an advantage to explore various cuisines. Bengali cuisine…
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Posto Pabda is a very popular fish curry from Bengal, in which the fish named Pabda is cooked in poppy seeds paste making a thick curry. The fish here is cooked whole and the dish goes well with plain rice. The recipe here is adapted from my mother’s diary and trust me it tastes amazing. For those who have tasted Aloo Posto, this fish curry has a similar curry taste with fish along as a bonus. The curry is cooked in Mustard oil that gives a super aroma and a rustic flavor to the dish. The consistency of the gravy…
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Aloo Posto or Potatoes in Poppy Seed Paste is an authentic and traditional Bengali recipe and no occasion or meal is complete without this dish. Poppy seeds are soaked and ground to make a fine paste, later cooked with potatoes is a must served dish in Bengali homes. Khus Khus or poppy seeds in known as Posto in Bengali language. A quintessential dish that is served mostly with rice and masoor dal (Bengali style) is easy and quick to make and is a total fuss free dish with an amazing aroma and taste. I have grown up eating aloo posto…
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It’s weekend guys, so whats cooking today at your kitchen? Well we shall be out for a movie and then dinner outside, hence kept myself a bit lazy today. No breakfast, rather opted for brunch. And when it comes to my brunch cooking, pizza is the best known option to me, that not just keeps my son happy but also allow me to treat and pamper myself once in while. So why not have something supreme, exotic yet super healthy! Pizza is considered to be one unhealthy food, as it is made using all purpose flour, yeast etc. But who…
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Pakistani Bhuna Gosht is a mutton preparation very popular in Pakistan. Mutton pieces slow cooked in whole spices and chopped onion, ginger garlic is later fried (bhuna) with lots of ghee and garnished with coriander. Pakistani Bhuna Gosht is one such succulent dish that is best enjoyed with Rumali Roti or Naan. The mutton pieces when cooked slowly with whole spices, leaves an aromatic flavor and extremely juicy mutton that makes you crave for more. Normally Bhuna Gosht is prepared with minced onion, ginger and garlic, but here in this Pakistani version of Bhuna Gosht, the onions are fine sliced…
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Kurma in Kerala is a typical curry made with different vegetables, yellowish in color with slightly mashed veggies and a vibrant flavor of coconut milk. Cauliflower Kurma is one such kind of curry that is teemed up with small chopped carrots and green peas and is particularly served with Idiyappam or Rice. Cauliflower Kurma also goes well with Kerala Parotha aka Malabar Parotha. The curry is mainly made with two extracts of coconut milk. The vegetables are cooked i second extract of coconut milk that is thin and later thickened with the first thick coconut milk. Believe me it’s one…
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 Thoran is a typical Keralite dry vegetable dish made with finely chopped veggies like, cabbage, beans, beetroot etc with lots of grated coconut. This popular dish is an integral part of Onam Sadhya as well as eaten as a side dish with daily meals in Keralite homes. The beauty of this dish lies in the fine chopping done with skilled hands. Not everyone can chop as fine as the people of Kerala do for their vegetarian dish.