bengali cuisine + Curry recipes (43)

This is an ever popular dish hailing originally from West Bengal but equally appreciated by Bengalis from the eastern part as well. This is a dish that is eaten all season but especially during summer. Posto, the key ingredient in this dish helps your body rest and helps in getting a good sleep. It is a delicious dish to eat but simple and easy enough to cook.

This recipe was created by me with inspiration from a childhood friend. During one of our conversations, she reminded me of patal the seasonal vegetable and how she cooks it to please her husband’s taste buds as he would it eat it no other way than this. I had some good tiger prawns in the fridge and decided to add that in as I thought it could enrich the flavor a lot more. Try this dish, I can promise you will like it even if you don’t like patal.

A chochchori is a rich dish with a lot of onions spiced up with turmeric and red chilli powders. This dish brings back fond memories of my mother calling out from our veranda to a Mach-wala, and buying a bunch of fresh fish jumping up and down in the water of the container. A Mach-wala is a man who goes around neighborhood streets carrying an abundance of fresh live fish in a big pot like container on top of his head. The dish tastes great when the fish has just been bought and cooked fresh.

I have never tried this very unique recipe, but my friend, Unaiza, assured that it tastes great! I know some common recipes for frying eggs, but this is the first time I found a recipe for frying eggs over easy with curry. Enjoy!

I could ask for nothing else when a dish has both of my favorite ingredients: tamarind chutney and shrimps. Pulao is something we all cook when we have guests coming over, and this sweet and sour dish is often cooked as it makes a great pair with it.

Pani Kochu (Tora) is a root vegetable found in south Asia which is somewhat like a potato, but it turns quite gluey when cooked. I never tried this recipe, but I like anything that has coconut milk in it. Pani Kochur Korma can be cooked at special occasions, and is eaten with pulao or tandoori rooti.

Ilish is the national fish of Bangladesh that is widely found during the rainy season. This curry is sweet, sour and spicy, and is quite easy to make. It is made in the same process as Ilish Koromcha, but has a distinct tamarind taste.

If you are a meat lover, then you should definitely try out this recipe! It has spinach with beef, which makes it healthy. It is served with plain white rice.

This recipe is native to North Bengal of Bangladesh. People here like to eat a lot of coconut. The recipe is unique because coconut flesh is cut into strips, rather than grated or blended to make a paste or milk. The cooked coconut strips are crunchy and make a great combination with the spicy chicken curry. It is served with white pulao or plain rice.

Gorur Gosht or beef curry is a common everyday dish in Bengal and South Asia. It is spicy, and is eaten with practically anything-rice, pulao, bread, rooti, paratha, loochi and biryani.