LivestockHow to Make Egg Bhuna with Milk
Using a little milk instead of water in the gravy gives the familiar spicy egg bhuna a new flavour and a thicker, smoother sauce.
LivestockUsing a little milk instead of water in the gravy gives the familiar spicy egg bhuna a new flavour and a thicker, smoother sauce.
FruitsGuava is mostly eaten ripe or as jam and jelly, but it can also be cooked into a spiced sweet-and-sour curry.
CookingSemolina and fresh orange juice make small laddus shaped like oranges, a different sweet for guests or family.
FisheriesHilsa jali kebab, made from deboned hilsa and potato dipped in egg and fried, is an easy new way to serve Bengal's favourite fish.
LivestockA thin curry of young desi chicken and green papaya is a light, nourishing dish that is easy to digest after fever or stomach trouble.
VegetablesCooking rui with a nut and mustard paste and fresh lemon leaves gives the familiar fish a new, fragrant taste with little fuss.
AgribusinessA step-by-step recipe for tal patishapta, a soft palmyra palm crepe rolled around a coconut and date jaggery filling.
CookingA new twist on pudding: chhana blended with eggs, milk, cream, sugar, ghee and cardamom, steamed without caramel and chilled into a creamy dessert.
CropsKochur mukhi dal, a traditional village dish of lentils cooked with taro corms, needs few ingredients and makes a tasty change served with hot rice.
VegetablesA spicy shrimp pickle, made at home with a handful of ingredients, makes a different accompaniment to rice or khichuri.
CookingAn ordinary hand fan can be used to print patterns on dough and make pakha pitha, a fried, syrup-soaked patterned pitha.
FisheriesChicken curry with small prawns, cooked in the kitchens of steamers crossing the Padma from Goalundo Ghat in British times, became known as the Goalundo Steamer Curry, and it can be made at home.
FisheriesA tasty mash of yardlong beans and shrimp, cooked down in mustard oil, can make a plate of hot rice complete on its own.