Category: Bengali Recipes

Anaraser Chatni Recipe – How to make Anaraser Chatni

By Suman Jain, June 18, 2009

Ingredients

1/2 tablespoon raisins
2 bay leaves
2 – 4 tablespoon sugar
Salt to taste
1  ginger chopped
1/8 teaspoon mustard seeds
1 teaspoon oil
1/4 big size pineapple

How to make Anaraser Chatni

  • Discard the hard core of the pineapple.
  • Take off and take off the eyes.
  • Cut them into fine dices.
  • Heat up oil in a kadai.
  • Mix in the mustard seeds.
  • When it starts to crackle mix in pineapple.
  • Stir fry for few minutes and mix in salt.
  • Mix in 1 cup of water and sugar.
  • Mix in bay leaves, raisins and cut ginger.
  • Simmer (boil slowly at low temperature) till the chutney is thick.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Begun Bhaja Recipe – How to make Begun Bhaja

By Suman Jain, June 18, 2009

Ingredients

1 big size brinjals
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
Mustard oil to fry
Salt to taste

How to make Begun Bhaja

  • Wash and cut the brinjals into half inch round slices.
  • Apply salt and turmeric powder.
  • Heat up the oil in a pot to smoking point.
  • Take off heat, cool slightly and then reheat.
  • Fry the brinjal pieces till crunchy and brown.
  • Serve hot.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Tomato Chatni Recipe – How to make Tomato Chatni

By Suman Jain, June 18, 2009

Ingredients

8 Medium Sized Tomatoes
1 tablespoon Garlic(grated)
1 teaspoon Ajwain
1 teaspoon Chilli powder
A pinch of Asafoetida
1 teaspoon Sugar
2 tablespoon Oil
Salt to taste

How to make Tomato Chatni

  • Blanch the tomatoes in hot water. Peel off and make a puree in a liquidizer.
  • Heat oil in a frying pan and fry asafoetida and ajwain.
  • Add garlic and fry again for few seconds.
  • Add tomato puree, sugar, chilli powder and salt.
  • Cook for about 20 minutes at low flame.
  • Cool the chutney.
  • Tomato Chutney is ready to serve.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Tauk Dal Recipe – How to make Tauk Dal

By Suman Jain, June 17, 2009

Ingredients

250 grams pigeon pea divide (arhar dal)
1 teaspoon ghee
1/2 teaspoon onion seeds
2 teaspoon sugar
4 -6 green chillies
Salt to taste
3 medium raw mangoes
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder

How to make Tauk Dal

  • Wash, take off and cut the mangoes into 6-8 pieces lengthwise.
  • Wash the dal and boil with 4 cup of water.
  • Mix in turmeric and stir.
  • Continue cooking for about 20 minutes.
  • Mix in raw mangoes, green chillies and salt.
  • Stir fry till the time the mangoes are soft but not mushy.
  • Mix in sugar and stir.
  • Heat up ghee in a kadhai and mix in onion seeds.
  • When they stop crackling pour out this over the dal.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Pista Sandesh Recipe – How to make Pista Sandesh

By Suman Jain, June 17, 2009

Ingredients

225 grams Paneer
½ teaspoon Cardamom Seeds (grounded)
1 tablespoon Rose Water
150 grams Sugar
Finely sliced and crushed 10 Pistachios

How to make Pista Sandesh

  • Make a mixture of sugar and paneer.
  • Place the mixture over the heat and stir it continuously.
  • After the mixture gets solidi, sprinkle the rose water on it.
  • Divide the mix into various parts and flatten them in required size and shapes.
  • Soak those pieces into the cardamom and pista separately and serve the Sandesh cold.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Narkol Nadu Recipe – How to make Narkol Nadu

By Suman Jain, June 17, 2009

Ingredients

1 coconut
3 tablespoon milk powder
Raisins for decorate
1/2 cup milk solids (khoya / mawa)
1/2 teaspoon green cardamom powder
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup condensed milk

How to make Narkol Nadu

  • Grate coconut and grind without water.
  • Knead khoya well.
  • Make peas sized balls.
  • Keep aside.
  • Stir fry the ground coconut in a kadhai over high flame heat, mix in sugar and the condensed milk.
  • Stir well.
  • When the mixture dries a little mix in the milk powder and green cardamom powder.
  • Keep stirring continuously.
  • When it starts to leave sides of the kadhai, take off from heat, let it cool a little.
  • Divide into marble sized pieces, put one khoya ball in each.
  • Roll in to smooth balls.
  • Decorate each with a raisin.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Mishti Achar Recipe – How to make Mishti Achar

By Suman Jain, June 17, 2009

Ingredients

1 teaspoon red chilli powder
1 tsp panch phoron powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
2 tablespoon mustard oil
2 cup sugar
Salt to taste
500 gms ripe olives

How to make Mishti Achar

  • Mix all the above the ingredients except the panch phoron and stir fry on low heat up till one thread consistency is reached and the olives soft.
  • When cooked mix in the panch phoron.
  • Cool and store.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Macher Kochuri Recipe – How to make Macher Kochuri

By Suman Jain, June 17, 2009

Ingredients

For the kochuri
2 1/2 cup refined flour (maida)
2 tablespoon ghee
Groundnut oil for deep fry
Salt to taste
For The Filling
1 inch Ginger
5 cloves Garlic
1 1/2 tablespoon Mustard Oil
1/2 teaspoon Red Chilli Powder
500 gms Betki Or Surmai Fish
1/2 teaspoon Turmeric Powder
Salt to taste
1/4 teaspoon Sugar
1 tsp Panch Phoron

How to make Macher Kochuri

  • Sieve the flour and salt together.
  • Rub in the ghee and make medium soft dough with water.
  • Keep aside covered with a damp cloth.
  • Grind ginger and the garlic.
  • Steam the fish with turmeric and a little water.
  • Take off the flesh from the bones and mash coarsely.
  • Heat up mustard oil in a kadhai, mix in the ground paste and red chilli powder.
  • Fry for some time.
  • Mix in sugar, salt and fish.
  • Fry, stirring till the mixture becomes dry.
  • Mix in the panch phoron and mix well.
  • Divide the dough into medium sized balls.
  • Roll into thick puris.
  • Put 1heaped tblsp of stuffing in the center of each puri.
  • Gather the sides, make a ball once again and roll into a puri once again.
  • Heat up enough oil in a karhai and deep-fry the puris one at a time.
  • Serve hot.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Lavang Latika Recipe – How to make Lavang Latika

By Suman Jain, June 17, 2009

Ingredients

2 cups Plain Flour (Maida)
2 cups Sugar
¼ teaspoon Nutmeg Powder
2 tablespoon Semolina (Rava)
½ teaspoon Cardamom Powder
1 cup Coconut, grated
½ cup Milk
¼ teaspoon Salt
Ghee (as required)
1 cup Water

How to make Lavang Latika

  • Take plain flour in a bowl and add salt and a tablespoon of ghee in it. Make firm dough by mixing it with water.
  • Cover the dough with a damp cloth and keep it aside.
  • Heat a pan and add 1 tablespoon of ghee in it. Fry the rawa in the ghee till it turns brown.
  • Now, add coconut, milk and ¼ cup sugar in the rawa.
  • Let the mixture cook on low heat. Keep stirring, until the mixture becomes thick.
  • Put off the flame and add cardamom and nutmeg powder into it and mix well.
  • Take a little portion of the dough and roll it out into a small puri.
  • Put the already prepared mixture into this puri and close it like an envelope.
  • Stick a clove at the centre, so that the latika does not open.
  • Repeat the process with the rest of the dough.
  • Take a big pan and heat enough ghee. Fry the latikas on medium flame till they turn golden brown. Keep the fried latikas aside.
  • To make the sugar syrup, take water in a bowl. Heat it by adding ½ cup of sugar.
  • Boil the syrup on low heat, till it reaches three-string consistency.
  • Remove the bowl of syrup from the stove and add the already prepared latikas in it. Take out the latikas after sometime and allow them to cool.
  • Enjoy the sweet Lavang Latikas.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Kucho Amer Achar Recipe – How to make Kucho Amer Achar

By Suman Jain, June 16, 2009

Ingredients

1/2 cup mustard oil
1 teaspoon red chilli powder
1 teaspoon panch phoron powder
Salt to taste
1/2 kg jaggery
4 – 5 raw mangoes (grated)
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder

How to make Kucho Amer Achar

  • Mix the grated mangoes, jaggery, turmeric powder and salt.
  • Keep the mixture in the sun for about 4-5 days at a stretch.
  • Mix in red chilli powder and panch phoron powder and leave it again in the sun for another 4-5 days.
  • Mix in the mustard oil just before bottling and preserving it.

Popularity: 4% [?]

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