Sharadiya signifies multiple images – three eyed Durga, Kash Ful, Pujo shankha, exquisite pandals, teeming millions and of course, pet pujo.
Ladies and Gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the Carnival of the Year!
This Festive Season, Cook Like a Bong brings to you a collection of 26 traditional and trendy Bengali recipes in a free eBook, titled Saradiya Rannabati 2010. Do what you like, go anywhere you want, eat whatever you can lay your hands on. This Durga Puja, Eat Pray Live. 🙂
ও শিব কবে হবে কাল, নিম দিয়ে ছেচকি আম দিয়ে ডাল
By definition, summer is a little away but the heat has already set in. The markets are flooded with raw mangoes. These sour tasting mangoes are a wonderful ingredient for varieties of Bengali recipes.
Beat the Heat with Raw Mango Dal. Here’s how to cook Aamer Daal in easy steps.
Fourth in the Bengali Food Blogger Interview series is well known blogger, Sharmila from KichuKhon. She started blogging regularly since mid 2008 and is now a well known face in Bengali food blogging arena.
Inspired by the wonderful food blogs, Sharmila started blogging about food. Thereafter, requests from her ardent fans and followers obliged her to post more recipes.
Today, in this post read about Sharmila and many other hidden facts about the lady behind Kichukhon.
This post reviews Gits Karaisutir Kachori mix. If you cook regularly, I’m sure you may want to take a break sometime and enjoy this ready to cook snack.
In case you cook only occasionally, all the more reason to try it out. I mean, why spend half a day in kitchen preparing kachori when you can do the same using Gits Karaisutir Kachuri Mix in 20 minutes.
A Bong cant be separated from sweets, and not without reason. Sample soft rasogollas or smooth sandesh, and you would know.
Sandesh is of several kinds. This post explains in easy steps how to prepare Strawberry Sandesh, which is a little twisted from the veritable way of preparing you general run of the mill kind sandesh. The curd cheese is sweetened and flavored with fresh strawberry puree to give the light pinkish tinge and the irresistible flavor of this dessert.
Prepare it, have a bite and let me know how you fared. Bon Appetite!
11 days to go for the Durga Puja, and I am overwhelmed with what to write and what to leave out. Here’s a special Bengali style keema curry served hot.
Preparation time: 10min
Cooking time: 15 – 20min
Reading time: 3min
Here’s a list of Top 7 Bengali Food Blogs. The list includes:
1. Bangali Meye of A Bengali Girl in US
2. Jayashree Mandal of Spice and Curry
3. Sandeepa of Bong Mom’s CookBook
4. Sharmila of Kichu Khon
5. Indrani of Appyayan
6. Sharmishtha of Cook a Doodle Do
7. Angshuman Das of Cooking in Calcutta
The list doesn’t include Sutapa Ray’s Bengali Recipes on the Web (most popular websites for bengali recipes) and Cook Like a Bong.
Enjoy!
Of the very few recipes that have not been influenced by any foreign invasions Chanchra tops the list. This special Bengali recipe with a different vegetables, herb and fish head is an indispensable side dish in any Bengali feast. Try this out.
Trivia: It is said, consumption of fish head helps to get a stronger eye sight.
Preparation time: 20min
Cooking time: 30min
Serves: 4
Reading time: 5min
Well, you can’t keep off a Bengali from fish for too long, can you? After the series on Breakfast with Egg, it time to go back to Fish. Chingri Bhaape is on the platter today.
Chingri Bhaape is an authentic Bangali recipe, and is prepared in every household since ages. It is enjoyed best with warm white rice. The pungent taste of mustard paste makes the sarshe chingri bhaapa even more appealing. Hilsa is also used similarly to prepare ilish bhapa.
Reading Time: 4 min
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 5 – 8min
Part 6 of the series “Breakfast with Egg Recipes” features Egg Roll. Yes, that blessed street food. Learn about its ingredients, how to prepare it, some trivia and the Nutrition count of the recipe with Nutrition Calculator.
Approx reading time: 5 min
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 8 min
Part 3 of the series “Breakfast with Egg Recipes” features Scrambled Egg. Learn about its ingredients, how to prepare it and some trivia about it.
Approx reading time: 4 min.
Preparation time: 5 mins
Cooking time: 5 mins
Part 2 of the series “15 min Egg Breakfast Recipes” features French Toast. Learn a little history of French Toast, its ingredients and how to prepare it.
Approx reading time: 3 min.
Preparation time: 5 mins
Cooking time: 5 mins
We love Eggs because they taste good, are a great source of protein (and amino acids) and most of all, are easy to cook. Starting today, this blog will run a series on “15 min breakfast recipes with eggs”. This post discusses Mughlai Paratha. Preparation time: 10 mins; Cooking time: 12mins; Serves: 4. Try it and let us know whether it suited you.
After coming back home tonight, I found there was actually no vegetables left. The only thing that I found in my kitchen was two tomatoes, some onions, garlic and of course there was my all time ready stock of eggs. Putting on my apron, I was ready to prepare something really rich and spicy, because…
This is a new style of chicken I cooked a few days ago. It was absolutely experimental, but it turned out to be good. So posting it in this blog. Serves 4 Ingredients: Chicken (murgi): 1kg Onions (peyaj): 5 medium sized ones Tomato: 2 medium sized Potato (aalu): 4 pieces Mustard oil (sarser tel): 4…