How to Make Three Different Dishes From One Vegetable
With a little planning, one vegetable dish can become breakfast, lunch and dinner, saving time, fuel and food waste.
With a little planning, one vegetable dish can become breakfast, lunch and dinner, saving time, fuel and food waste.
Hilsa rubbed raw with onion, spices and mustard oil, then cooked gently with green chillies, makes a quick monsoon dish for hot rice.
Floods from heavy rain have caused an official Tk 13 crore of farm, fisheries and livestock losses in Sitakunda, Chattogram, though those affected say the real figure is Tk 30-35 crore.
Continuous rain has drowned 417 hectares of crops in Bogura, hurting 4,961 farmers, while falling supply has sent vegetable prices soaring for consumers.
A physically disabled farmer in Shailkupa, Jhenaidah, faces losses of several lakh taka after miscreants cut down his fruiting bottle gourd plants at night.
At Dhaka's Karwan Bazar, jamun is pressed into juice that goes to processors and exporters, while the once-discarded seeds now sell as powder.
Young farmers in Babuganj upazila of Barishal are adopting mulching for vegetables because it cuts costs and raises yields.
Farmers in Rajshahi's Paba upazila are raising disease-free vegetable seedlings in cocopeat trays inside polynet houses, protecting them from rain, heat and pests.
Rosti, Switzerland's crisp-edged potato pancake, can be made at home quickly with a handful of ingredients.
Continuous rain and hill runoff had affected crops on more than 28,610 hectares in 12 districts by 11 July, the agriculture department says, while nearly 10,000 ponds and 320 shrimp farms were hit in Chattogram.
Shirin Akter, who returned to her father's home in 2003 with a baby in her arms and another on the way, is now known across wholesale markets as the 'pumpkin queen' of Mahasthanhat in Bogura.
Crushing or chopping garlic and leaving it for about 10 minutes before eating or cooking helps form allicin, the compound linked to garlic's possible benefits for blood sugar.
VegetablesKoshari, Egypt's national dish of rice, lentils, pasta, chickpeas and crispy onions under a tangy tomato sauce, can be made at home with simple ingredients; UNESCO added it to its intangible heritage list in December 2025.