Crops
Pakoras for a Cloudy Afternoon Tea: Three Recipes at a Glance
Three simple pakora recipes, made with lentils, mixed vegetables and green chillies, to serve hot with tea on a cloudy day.
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Vegetables
How to Make Tomato and Jujube Chutney
A simple method for sweet and sour tomato and jujube chutney, a favourite with rice or khichuri.
Crops
Lentils Won't Soften in Your Mango Dal? Here Is the Right Method
Tangy mango dal is a summer favourite, and the key to soft lentils is adding the green mango only after the dal is almost cooked.
CookingShrimp and bottle gourd leaf curry with few spices: a light hot-season recipe
As the hot season began, Jagonews24 published on 5 April 2026 a recipe for a thin curry of shrimp and bottle gourd leaves cooked with few spices. Here is the recipe, with background on the gourd and the shrimp, official figures, nutrient values and food safety advice.
Vegetables
How to Make Crispy Begun Bhaja
A few simple tricks in cutting, seasoning and frying make begun bhaja (fried aubergine) crisp rather than soft.
Crops
Make a Quick Potato Sandwich
A potato sandwich is an easy, light afternoon snack that suits both children and adults.
CookingRestaurant-Style Vegetable Korma at Home: Ingredients and Method
On 31 March 2026 Jagonews24's lifestyle desk published a recipe for a restaurant-style vegetable korma made with papaya, potato, carrot, mushroom and yardlong beans in a cashew, poppy seed and fried onion paste with yoghurt.
Fruits
Foods That Will Boost Your Immunity
With colds, fevers and measles among children on the rise, a daily diet with the right foods can help the body fight infection.
Fruits
Eating Watermelon in the Heat? Avoid These Mistakes
Watermelon cools and refreshes in the heat, but eating it on an empty stomach, straight after a heavy meal, ice-cold or in excess can do more harm than good.
CookingEgg and vegetable omelette: a quick protein-rich breakfast or snack
A two-egg omelette with onion, tomato, carrot, green chilli and coriander, published by Jagonews24 on 28 March 2026 as a quick, nutritious alternative to fried snacks, with the nutrient figures from Bangladesh's food composition table and USDA, and WHO's advice on safe eggs.
Bangladesh
Short of Food, Monkeys Raid Homes in Shariatpur
Monkeys that have lived in Shariatpur villages for 50 years are raiding homes and snatching food as fruit trees disappear, and residents want the government to feed them.
CookingHow to cook traditional dudh semai, the milk vermicelli of Eid morning
Days before Eid ul-Fitr in March 2026, Jagonews24 published a home recipe for dudh semai: vermicelli lightly fried in ghee, simmered in a litre of milk boiled with sugar, cardamom and cinnamon, and finished with nuts and raisins.
Vegetables
Have a Vegetable Soup at Night to Stay Refreshed
A hot mixed vegetable soup made with few ingredients can refresh the body after a day of fasting.