Sautéed Cabbage with Fenugreek
If you are looking for a simple side dish with a meal, consider cooking cabbage with spices. The subtly laced flavors of fenugreek seeds transform this often shunned vegetable into a wholesome, nourishing bowlful.
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Curries & Dry Fries
Curries – Dry and gravy based
Maa Choliyan Di Dal: Punjabi Style Mixed Lentils
The creamy, warm and fragrant Maa di Dal has the wholesome nourishing feeling slowly seep into me, with a tingle of beautiful memories: crisp winter air, travels and meals in dhabas.
Begun Posto: Eggplants with Poppy Seeds Paste
This is another traditional Bengali recipe. Eggplants are lightly sauteed and then cooked in the creamy poppy seed paste. It is amazingly simple and flavorful. This happens to be one of those dishes where no spices are required.
Kumro/Lau Pata Bata: Spiced Pumpkin/Gourd Leaf Paste
Twenty years back when I left behind my home, my family and my childhood to begin a new life in this country, I had no idea how much I would miss the everyday things that I took for granted: the hand pump which spurted …
Chaal Kumro Diye Muger Dal: Ash Gourd/Winter Melon with Yellow Mung
A few times a year, I get the gift of indulging into a full blown elaborate Bengali meal. The times when my dad visits, and then there are those times when my cousin comes over. There is nothing more beautiful than sharing a familiar …