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Patol Posto a famous and popular recipe in Bengal. Though its taste differ from various place of Bengal too. I always prefer to do Dhaka (City of Bangladesh) style which is purely vegetarian style. In Bengal there are so many variety in cooking . You cannot believe once upon a time there was a contradict about cooking with  two casts of Bengal,these are like Ghoti and Bangal. They have lots of differences in their own culture. Basically Ghoti are called those people who are from West Bengal and Bangal are called them who are from Bangladesh(undivided). Ghoti signifies Prawn or Shrimp and Bangal signifies Hilsa fish. There are lots of stories behind of this identification. I will tell you later. Anyways as my origin says, I belong to native Bangal means from Dhaka , like to cook preferably Bangaldeshi style. So this is the traditional recipe from Bangladesh.Fried pointed gourd is cooked in poppy seed paste with grated coconut and mustard seed paste. I bet anybody will love it .Wi...

Today sharing a Giveaway from Vimitha . With lots of things I could not manage to write any Thank You note for this winning . As I was really worried about my sister sickness. But now she is fine so got a chance to write about giveaway. Vimitha, owner of My Culinary Trial Room . She has a wonderful blog with lovely recipe collections.I enjoy her recipe and blog always. She organised an event with collaboration of Hudson Canola Oil . Achievement Certificate

Chettinad Pakoda Kuzhambu a typical south indian delicious and tasty curry with pakoda. This was the challenge for North Indian Team of Divya Pramil's SN Challenge . South North Challenge/SNC   of You Too Can Cook is now a well known community in this blogger world. By the rule every month a member from SNC will place a challenge to oppose team and oppose team will share their challenge. This month Priya from Priya's Versatile Recipe gave a challenge for Chettinad Pakoda Kuzhambu to North Team, and Chandrani from Cuisine Delight gave a challenge of famous Bengal Sweet name Chanar Jilipi for south based team.As I belong to North Team , somehow I could manage to fulfill the challenge for this month . Thanks Priya for this lovely South Indian delicacy. Enjoyed thoroughly. From wiki I came to know that Chettinad Cuisine is the cuisine of Chettinad State of Tamilnadu. People from chettinad is called Chettiar . Chettiar are a majority of chettinad region. Chettinad cuisine is...

Sorry for delaying post. Busy with so many things . Mind is also dull and feeling not well. Still trying to write. Today sharing one tempting condiment recipe which is very popular in India. Origin story about Raita is very little. Basically the word Raita is coming from the Sanskrit word Rajika. Rajika defines black mustard . Raita is a combination of yogurt sauce which is seasoned with cumin seeds , black mustard seeds , green chili and some other spices too. It is served in any Indian occasion along with main course. Its tasty and healthy too. It is believe that it can help to reduce digestion problem after eating any spicy foods. Raita can be made in different categories. But very common raita is cucumber onion raita. Raita is always served chilled. As per nutrition value this raita consists very healthy ingredients like yogurt , cucumber , onion. Yogurt is a good source of calcium, little iron and vitamin c, whereas cucumber contains vitamin C,vitamin A ,iron and calcium too....

This is another traditional recipe from Tagore Family. Thakur Barir Ranna. Purnima Tagore is the author of this great book.  I tried so many recipe from this book and each of the recipe carries the tradition of Bengali Cuisine. Some authentic recipes from Bangladesh are also included in this book. Specifically this book contains most of the recipes from Tagore family which is very authentic and traditional and famous too. More and more some recipes are little different than traditional recipes too. Still its great i think. As it contains some  international recipes on those contemporary periods. Those international recipes were very famous in tagore family. So one classic recipe name Beetroot paste is sharing with you hope you will like it. Its very simple and easy recipe which goes very well with plain rice. Look is so colorful that you cannot resist to try it.  I made little changes on the recipe to add more flavor to it. So no waiting... try and enjoy. Nutritional ...