Mackerel dry fry or a bhaji style dish using very basic staples of Bengali food to make an amazing dish.
Tag: Chillies
Herby Oil Dip
Herby oil dip There is no better way to enjoy homemade bread than with a yummy herby oil to dip and soak your bread in! This recipe is so delicious when served with crusty artisan bread. Your family and friends will love it! Its extra virgin olive oil, dressed with oregano, basil, chilli flakes, seasoning…
Prawns In Mustard And Coconut Sauce/Narkel Chingri
Narkel Chingri is a quintessential Bengali dish with its roots deeply steeped in the regions culture, geography and natural resources. Prawns in a mustard and coconut sauce. There is an unspoken love of all things made with mustard and seafood for bengalis. An inherited love through cuisine.Just as mustard oil is the unsung hero off…
Chicken RaRa
Chicken Rara or Murgh Rara is a popular North Indian chicken curry wherein chicken is cooked in a thick curry and served spiced up with cardamom, yogurt and whole chillies in a lip-smacking chicken mince gravy. A proper restaurant style dish, it is best enjoyed with some hot phulka or plain boiled rice There are…
Mutton Keema And Ribs With Ome Made Devils Arse Hot Curry Masala
I’ve been waiting for weeks to use this masala… Ome Made Devils Arse Hot Curry Masala. Thankyou for this amazing spice! Been a long time since I’ve used a curry blend that suits my palate without adding additional spices other than the turmeric and kashmiri chilli powder I added just for colour. I wanted to…
Spicy Tuna Mayo Medley
A week of delicious salads served by hubs! Each one delicious and prepared with detail! But the most memorable is an old time favourite that we so adore. Be it in wraps, baked potatoes, pita or sliced bread its simply delicious. It’s one I made often at work to enjoy with my colleagues at lunch…
Curried Ragu
You know how Italians have a pasta sauce, a bolegnese or ragu sauce, rich and intense, well here is my Bengali Style alternative. That’s because we love pasta too! I love a traditional ragu but I love spices. The two marry in my house.They are so loved up that what is created with this marriage…
Okra Do Pyaza
So the most common way in which you can cook okra in an Indian way is by sauteing it with some whole spice and ground spices.Sometimes I use fenugreek seeds to temper. It’s super simple and tastes great with rice or roti. Sometimes I change things up a bit make okra do pyaza. The literal translation…
Cheesy Chilli Baked Beans Baguette
Two things I love together, baked beans and cheese and onion. One of my favourite lunchtime meals was always the cheese and onion pasty with lashings of beans over it. A good season of salt and pepper and I was always over the moon. So here’s my way of bringing those 2 components together to…
Lets Talk About Bombay Duck
Bombay duck, bummalo, bombil, and boomla is a species of lizardfish. Adults may reach a maximum length of 40 cm, but the usual size is around 25 cm. Ever heard of Bombay Duck? It isn’t a duck, but a fish; and it isn’t found in Bombay, but pretty much all along the Indian coastline. Then…