with chholar dal (Bengal gram) stuffing

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

A runny, comforting, fragrant khichuri for divine offerings or unexpected rains

A bright yellow, sweet Bengali polao redolent with ghee and garnished with fried cashews and raisins.

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

Bengali-style curried new-potatoes cooked in a savoury, tangy sauce, and sprinkled with green peas.

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

Rice and crunchy veggies with a bengali twist

Savoury-sweet preparation of curried split Bengal gram

The queen of panchmishali tarkari

Bengali deep fried puffy bread

Potatoes in a nutty poppy seed gravy

Fried lentil cakes in a flavourful sauce

A fun, quick chutney with green papaya

with two variants

Bengali rice pudding with date palm jaggery

A Bengali cauliflower-and-peas curry

A medley of winter vegetables, slow-cooked in their own juices

A Tagore family recipe

Chunks of paneer(cottage cheese) in a spicy, comforting sauce

Roasted moong dal with fresh, winter veggies

Curried bottle gourd

A quick and delicate dal tempered with radhuni, a type of seed that is quite unique to Bengal.

A Bengali classic served with luchi

Perfectly seasoned, pan-fried brinjals

Crunchy batter-fried jute leaves

A Kolkata street snack of boiled potatoes

Bengali jackfruit curry

Curried cabbage with potatoes and peas

Onion fritters

Waste nothing!

Okra in a mustard-poppy sauce

Potol cooked with fragrant rice

Made with green unripe banana

Ground poppy-seed fritters

Mildly flavoured kolaier dal or urad dal

A mild, milky curry of bottle gourd

A light curry with pointed gourd

A quick stir-fry of bottle-gourd peels.

Light, fluffy, mildly-spiced chhana (cottage cheese) dumplings in curry.

Cauliflower florets steamed and batter-fried

Banana stem cooked in spices

Banana blossom paturi

Fried potato peels

An easy shukto with green papaya

Bengali mashed potatoes

Light and midly bitter stew of summer vegetables

Bottle gourd cooked with prawns

Bitter gourd and pumpkin stir-fry

or pakora