Bengali Food Lovers

Bengali Food Lovers

Bengali Food is an all time favourite for many for its spicy, aromatic and mouthwatering flavours.

Bengali Cuisine generally consists of a variety of Rice Dishes and fresh water fish Delicacies.

Bengali Food enlists delicious rice main courses, curries, fish dishes, chicken cuisines, pulses, fries, cutneys, Bengali sweets, snacks and many more.

Savour the oriental flavours of some zesty Bengali cuisines and enjoy other delicious regional and continental food too. 

Hilsa with Mustard Smoked in Banana Leaves

Hilsa with Mustard Smoked in Banana Leaves

:: Ingredients ::

1>  7-8 pieces of hilsa.

2>  1 1/2 tablespoons of mustard paste very finely ground.

3>  1/2 tablespoon turmeric paste.

4>  1/2 teaspoon chili paste.

5>  100 grams of mustard oil.

6>   4-5 green chilies

7>  Washed and slit.

8>  4-5 banana leaves

9>  Halved.

 
:: Making Process Steps ::

>  Place the fish pieces in a flat dish. Add masala pastes and salt.
>  Mix the fish and masala pastes together.
>  Add mustard oil and green chilies and mix again.
>  On the tawa or iron griddle place,
>  2-3 banana leaves one on top of the other and another 2-3 leaves crosswise over the first ones.
>  Now carefully place the masala coated fishes in the center of the leaves.
>  Pour the extra oil and masala on the top.
>  Fold the banana leaves like a packet and tie it with a string.
>  Place the tawa or the girdle on hot fire and cook for 20-25 mins.
>  Remove from tawa and place the packet on a large platter.
>  Untie it carefully and serve hot with rice. 

:: Microwave Method ::


#  >  Follow the same recipe but make individual packets and place it in a flat dish.
    >  And cook for 15-20 mins in medium heat.

Chingri Malai Curry

Chingri ( Prawns ) Malai Curry

:: Ingredients ::
 
1>  Prawns/Lobsters-500gms

2>  Coconut - 1

3>  Onion paste-2 tsp.

4>  Bay leaves-2-3

5>  Kismis/raisins-25 gms

6>  Curd-100gms

7>  Ginger paste-1 tsp.

8>  Salt-according to taste

9>  Oil and ghee accordingly
   


:: Making Process Steps ::

 >  Clean the prawns or lobsters
 >  Peel the shell and take out the black vein on the rear side of the prawns or lobsters.
 >  Boil the prawns in a little water
 >  Coconut paste and a little water and keep aside.
 >  In a pan heat oil and ghee
 >  Add onion paste
 >  Bay leaves
 >  Ginger and curd and stir well
 >  Add the prawns
 >  Cook for sometime add salt
 >  Coconut milk and when it gets thickened. Serve hot.

Fried Hilsa

Fried Hilsa

  

:: Ingredients ::

1>  Hilsa:  6 pieces

2>  Turmeric paste: 1 teaspoon

3>  Salt

4>  Oil for frying.    


:: Making Process Steps ::

 >  Heat oil till blue haze appears. In the meantime

 >  Coat the hilsa with turmeric paste and salt to taste.

>  Fry in hot oil until crisp and well browned.

>  Drain off oil and serve immediately

Fish Orly

Fish Orly

A Bengali meal without fish is incomplete.

Fishes are prepared in the most nutritious as well as 

delicious way to complement any daily Bengali meal or occasion.
There are some innovative recipes to bring variation in your meals and parties.

:: Ingredients ::

1>  Fillets of Vhekti (Betki) : 4.

2>  Paste of 1 onion.

3>  Paste of 5 cloves of garlic.

4>  Ginger paste : 1 teaspoon.

5>  Oil : 6 tablespoon.

6>  Wheat flour : 2 tablespoon.

7>  Corn flour : 2 tablespoons.

8>  Egg : 1 Pic.



:: Making Process Steps ::


>  Marinate fillets with ginger
>  garlic
>  onion
>  salt and vinegar for 1 hour
>  Blend wheat flour
>  salt
>  corn flour egg and baking powder in a bowl of water
>  Dip the fillets in the mixture and deep fry in oil

#  Serve with chips and salad