Snack recipes

Deep-fried, puffy bread stuffed with a spiced green-peas-and-hing filling

Calcutta’s most popular and iconic street food

Not to be confused with Chinatown's wok-fried chow mein

Calcutta cabin-style egg devils

A pan-fried flatbread stuffed with a filling of mashed potatoes

Inspired by one of our favourite sandwich joints in New Market, NV Stores!

A Bengali deep fried pastry with a delicious filling of biuli’r (urad) dal spiced with fennel seeds, ginger and green chillies.

CTC tea steeped in milk, and flavoured with ginger, cloves and cardamom.

Spicy, curried snack made with yellow peas

Bengali deep fried puffy bread

Savoury semolina with seasonal vegetables

Kolkata-style diamond-shaped breaded chicken

Brinjal coated with a gram-flour batter and deep-fried until crisp and golden.

Beaten rice with fresh winter vegetables

A Kolkata cabin speciality

Kolkata-style, crumb-coated, vegetable cutlet made with winter vegetables like beetroot and carrots, and boiled potatoes.

Shingara with a potato and cauliflower filling—a winter treat

Bengali rice pudding with date palm jaggery

with sweet chutney

Rice-flour dumplings filled with a coconut–jaggery mixture and boiled in milk—a type of pithe

Crunchy batter-fried jute leaves

A Bengali winter pithe

This crispy, tangy, savoury 'chaat' is a popular Calcutta street food dished out by phuchkawalas and is super easy to make.

A Kolkata street snack of boiled potatoes

Pockets of kheer, sealed with a clove, deep fried, and coated with sugar syrup

Onion fritters

Paratha stuffed with roasted gram flour

Or Chitoi Pithe

Spicy fish croquettes

Or, dahi vada

Samosa with mutton keema filling

Samosa with arahar dal filling

Easy pan-fried, ground mutton or beef kababs

A sweet semolina porridge.

A light potato curry

Cauliflower florets steamed and batter-fried

Tiny river-shrimp fritters

Bengal summer in a bowl

Chickpeas cooked with mutton

Fried potato peels

The sub-continent’s favourite snack with a deliciously meaty twist

A cottage-cheese and reduced milk pudding

Crunchy lentil fritters soaked in sugar syrup

Crispy, sticky complexly flavoured palmyra pulp fritters

made with taal (palmyra) pulp

A palmyra fruit pudding

Elegant saffron-laden rice koftas—a recipe from Pragyasundari Debi's cookbook.

A tender, moist orange and poppyseed 'pound cake' with a sweet-sour orange drizzle

Crisp fritters made with tiny Ganges river sprat

A quick, fiery chicken liver stir-fry

Light, crisp batter-fried pumpkin flowers—plus a bonus stuffing option!

Light, crisp batter-fried hummingbird tree flowers

A coconut-and-jaggery snack

Eaten all over India, this version is unique to Bengal

or pakora