The green papaya (raw papaya) was never one of my favourite vegetables. I would always find some excuse to not eat any curry made with the papaya when I was a kid and until a few weeks back, I continued to hold this sincere apathy to this tasteless vegetable. We have a domestic help for over two...
The Champaran recipe is a native of Bihar. The unique feature of this dish is the use of whole garlic. The recipe uses an assortment of fragrant spices which adds an unique flavour to the dish. The Champaran Mutton is the signature dish but here I will talk about the same recipe used to make a...
My family loves Eggs but the one dilemma I always had with the Egg was to make something different. Somehow, I always landed up making varieties of a similar Egg Curry. So this time with the festive season and an early winter in the air, I decided to make try the Egg Korma. The Korma is normally...
The word “Gondhoraj” translated, simply means king of fragrance. Gondhoraj lemon is the special ingredient in this recipe. This particular lemon is predominantly found in West Bengal but quickly becoming popular in other parts of India. I was pleasantly surprised to find it on the Blinkit...
This dish takes me back to the time when I just married and trying to manage a demanding job and setting up a new home. While I was at home with continental dishes, I was totally at a loss deciding what to make for dinner each day. I was looking for easy to make dishes and that is when...
I owe the idea for this recipe to my mother. When I was a kid, my mother often made the Lauki dal at home particularly during the summer months. She used to say, it’s good for the stomach and has a cooling effect. The Lauki dal is a relatively common Bengali dish. There was another dal which...