The Bangladeshi Kitchen

  • Lauer Khosha Bhaji – Fried Bottle Gourd Peel

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    Bengalis tend to not waste any food and will come up with innovative ways to make even the toughest food tender, delicious and appetizing. Here is a very simple recipe where we turn the peels of a bottlegourd into a tasty morsel.

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  • Rui Machher Jhol – 1

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    There are many variations to the Bengali jhol. This very simple one is one of my favorites. You can substitute any large fish for rui and add vegetables like eggplant, cauliflower and peas instead of the potato wedges I used in this recipe.

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  • Tomato Begun – Eggplant with tomato

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    There are many variations of eggplant and tomato. This is a simple one that appeals to the “just home from work, nothing cooked, feeling hungry, and the eggplant needs to be dealt with now” crowd. It may be short on steps but it is long on flavor. Ingredients 1 medium to large eggplant (cut to […]

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  • Rui Machher Jhaal Kalia – Spicy Fish Kalia

    1.25 hours
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    For every cooking style of the Bengali kitchen, you will find one we have tried with the Rui fish (grass carp). Be it jhole, jhaal, kormal or kalia – rui can do it justice. Of the many different kalia recipes, this particular one is quite spicy and the resultant gravy has a very rich and […]

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  • Bengali Egg Halua (Halva)

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    Halua is the Bangla version of the term Halva (or halawa, haleweh, helwa, halvah, halava, helava, helva, halwa, aluva) which refers to many types of dense, sweet confections served over much of Asia and the middle East. This simple preparation uses eggs and in Bangladesh is often served not only as a desert but as […]

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  • Steamed shrimp with mustard and green chili

    Bhapa Chingri – Steamed shrimp with mustard and green chili

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    Shrimp was always a favorite dish in our house. Of course, growing up, we called it prawns. Shrimp was supposed to be those er um shrimpy little things that gets caught in the net as you trawl and you just scoop them out. Bengalis do use steaming in a numberof recipes and this simple yet […]

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