After an easy breezy Muttai Kurma Recipe, here is one more side dish made with eggs which goes so well with rotis. I postponed the selection of the ingredient for this theme for a long time as I couldn’t decide what to use. Then when I was going through my drafts, I had this muttai […]
Yay! I am on the last day of the month long Blogging Marathon on Biryani and Pulaos. Today we will visit West Bengal for a delicious treat. Though this is the last to be posted, this is the first one I made for this BM. For the state of West Bengal I decided on this […]
This was one sweet I found in both Bengali and Odisha cuisine. Goja / Gaja are deep fried sweets common in both cuisine. They can be made with paneer, mawa or maida and with the difference in the ingredients, the name changes. I have already posted chenna gaja recipe in this BM and now it […]
Shingara is nothing but Samosa in Bengali cuisine. While there are so many savoury samosa recipes, there are also mishti shingara (sweet samosa) recipes in the cuisine. When I was writing out a list of recipes to try, I included some deep fried recipes too. With the same ingredients, by changing the shape, the name […]
If you like rasgolla, then you will love Rajbhog. Rajbhog are bigger rasgollas stuffed with a delicious mawa and dry fruits filling. The making is just like rasgolla. Some also add saffron to the syrup and food colour to the paneer while kneading. It is also made without any stuffing but made larger in size […]
There is one word to describe today’s sweet – Heaven. I tasted a spoon of this dessert and I needed all of my determination to not go for a second spoon. It is that good. For the past one year I am usually so determined that any sweet or cake doesn’t tempt me. But this […]
For the second day, here is an easy breezy recipe which tastes awesome. This is one of the sweets I taste tested after a very long time. There is a sweet chevu available in Tamil Nadu. It is crispy and sweet made with besan and deep fried. The sugar crystallizes on top to give that […]
Today we come to the final state in our Indian Food Odyssey. West Bengal is an eastern state of India and it shares its boundaries with Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Odisha, Jharkand, Sikkim, Bihar and Assam. Bengali cuisine is a style which originated from Bengal, which is now divided into Bangladesh and West Bengal. The Barak […]
You know that I am part of South Vs North Challenges started by Divya. For this month, Sanoli of Sanoli’s Kitchen is the host for the Southern team. She challenged the southern team with a Bengali sweet Labongo Latika. It is a sweet pastry filled with mawa and nuts and finally coated with sugar syrup. […]
For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli chose a Bengali delicacy from Sandeepa’s Bong Mom Blog. I have made dhokar dalna previously for another monthly challenge. So I was in two minds to prepare it again. But still I went through Sandeepas’s recipe. She has also listed some of the variations of dhokar dalna in […]
