Winter recipes

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

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.

Curried, new, winter potatoes and peas

Savoury semolina with seasonal vegetables

Beaten rice with fresh winter vegetables

The classic Calcutta fruitcake—a fixture in many homes around Christmas-time—is a rum-soaked, fruit-and-nut encrusted indulgence.

Shingara with a potato and cauliflower filling—a winter treat

Bengali rice pudding with date palm jaggery

A Bengali cauliflower-and-peas curry

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

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

Roasted moong dal with fresh, winter veggies

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

A Bengali classic served with luchi

Fresh parshe cooked in mustard paste and yoghurt, simmered with flavourful brinjal and dal'er bori.

A tart, creamy lime-orange custard in a flakey, buttery pie—includes bonus tricks to a perfect shortcrust pastry shell!

A Bengali winter pithe

Pressure cooker chicken curry

Curried cabbage with potatoes and peas

Waste nothing!

Or Chitoi Pithe

A super-delicious, super-delicate freshwater fish curry

Decadent, chocolatey, rum-soaked cake pops that are perfect for the holidays and require no baking.

An old fashioned pudding, with tea-custard sauce

Tyangra fish curry with winter radish

A fried mood-dal 'pithe' with a coconut-jaggery stuffing

Crunchy lentil fritters soaked in sugar syrup

With winter vegetables

Stir-fried spinach

Red winter radish cooked in spices

A stir-fry with onion-blossom stalk

A spicy, fudgy mash of bread beans (sheem).

Handrolled cowry shells in a hearty broth

Lahori-style classic sarson ka saag with mutton

A classic Punjabi dish with winter's fresh mustard greens

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

Flatbread stuffed with winter radish

Koi fish cooked with fresh orange juice and seasonal tangerines.

Fried brinjal with stalk on

Seasonal cauliflower cooked with fragrant gobindobhog rice

A sweet rice dish with red winter carrots and dried fruits, a Punjabi delicacy

or pakora