Khichudi, the name reminds me of those rainy days and rainy nights. Khichudi had always taken a special soft corner in my heart. Mom used to cook it whenever it started and rain means no going out and so everybody at home. The whole family waiting impatiently for the hot and yummy porridge to be served at the dining table. I especially remember one night. It was raining cats and dogs; mom was very ill that night and couldn’t even get up from bed. But we were all in full …

Here I am at my father’s place and enjoying all kinds of Bengali dishes cooked by mom. She is preparing all kinds of dishes that I love. Tonight was as usual one of my favorite platters at the dinner table. It’s a mixed vegetable curry cooked in without any kind of spices and is a delight to have as a light dinner or as a breakfast side dish along with paratha or roti. So this one to all you people who loves to shed off that extra carbs.
Ingredients:
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Serves: 4
Winter has gone away, but it has still left us with many vegetables to feel that dry cold winter afternoons. Cauliflower is one with which you can experiment out a lot many things. For today is the most simple one, I would be writing about the some more recipes with cauliflower in my following posts.
Ingredients:

Cauliflower (full kopi): 1 medium size
Potato (aalu): 2 pieces
Tomato: 1
Green chilli (kacha lanka): 3 / 4
Turmeric powder (haluder guro): …

Hi, had been writing about Bengali cuisine all these time, so just thought of changing your taste a bit. There was a Nepali cook at my place a long time ago; he used to cook the potato in Tibetan style.
Well I was in school then and this had been my lunch during the break for many a days. It tasted so good with roti or paratha. All my class mates used to run behind me to have a spoonful of the curry.
So here it goes for you all.
Ingredients:

Potato (aalu): …

Serves 6
Thanks all for making my post in the 100 hits list of blogs. So lets have something special one this occasion. It goes to those potato lovers, who still don’t give a damn to the extra weight. For those who really do, you can sacrifice that for a day and try this out.
Ingredients:
Potato (aalu): 8 big ones
Onions (peyaj): 4 medium sized
Ginger paste (aada bata): 2 table-spoons
Garlic (rasun): 6 cloves
Curd (doi): 200ml
Coconut milk (narkeler dudh): 1 ½ cup
Garam masala (only Elaichi and cardamon)
Green chilli (kachaa lanka): 4
Turmeric powder (halud guro): …

Serves: 4

Its Monday today, most of the houses prefer to vegetarian food, no difference at my place too. So cooked cabbage today and of course Bengali style. My maternal gets a credit for this, she cooks this dish, just too well. I have never tasted somebody cook better badha kopir tarkari than her.
There are lots of option to make it spicier and tastier, I will start with the basic requirements and eventually add the addendums.
Ingredients:

Cabbage (Bandha Kopi): 1 medium sized

Ginger paste (Aada bata): 2 table spoons

Potatoes (aalu) : 2/3, …