Holi
Holi was originally a festival to celebrate good harvests and fertility of the land, but is now a symbolic commemoration of a legend from Hindu Mythology.
Poush Parbon
Capricorn Poush Sankranti or Sankranthi festival is a special day of Bengali culture.
Janmastami
Krishna Janmashtami is an annual commemoration of the birth of the Hindu deity Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu.
Poila Boishakh
Poila Boishakh occurring on 14th April, is the first day of the Bengali calendar, celebrated in both Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
Diwali
Deepavali, also known as the "festival of lights" is a five-day Hindu festival which starts on Dhanteras, celebrated on the thirteenth lunar day of Krishna paksha .
Ramzan Id/Eid-ul-Fitar
Eid-ul-Fitar is one of the two major festivals in the Islamic calendar. Ramadan is the ninth month of the lunar year.
Jamai Sasthi
Jamai Shasti is dedicated to the son-in-law and is observed mainly in West Bengal, India.
Ratha-Yatra
Ratha Jatra, also known as Car Festival is a huge Hindu festival associated with Lord Jagannath held at Puri.
Raksha Bandhan
Raksha Bandhan is an Indian festival, which is being celebrated between Brothers & Sisters.
Durga Puja
Durga Puja , also referred to as Durgotsava or Sharadotsav is an annual Hindu festival in South Asia that celebrates worship of the Hindu goddess Durga.
Vijaya Dashami
Vijayadashmi is celebrated on the tenth day of the month of Ashwin according to the Hindu lunisolar calendar which corresponds to September or October of the Gregorian calendar.
Christmas & New Year
The Christmas season, also called the holiday season, the festive season, or simply the holidays, is an annually-recurring period recognized in Western culture and Western-influenced cultures.
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Janmastami
Today I'm going to share 'Taaler Malpoa'. Taal means, Asian Palm Fruit. We used to make Taaler Bowra, Taaler Kheer, Taaler Luchi etc on Janmastami puja.
Radha Ballavi is a very famous deep fried Bengali Flat Bread. This Radha Ballavi serves in special occasion like "Puja".
Durga Puja
"Misti/Mitha" stands for sweet in Bengali & "Holud/Basanti" stands for yellow in color & most importantly this will pronounce "Polao" not Pulao. So this rice preparation must be sweeter in taste & yellowish in color
This devils are made with half hard boiled eggs, wrapped with potato mixture, dipped in batter, coated with bread crumbs and then deep fried.
Vijaya Dashami
"Rosogolla", this name does not need any introduction. Every Indian well known about this soft, melt in mouth sweet.
Diwali
<p>Banana flower is a very unique vegetable, which can be cooked in many ways, like curries, koftas, cutlets and many other ways. Bengalis make different kinds of non-veg items too with this unique vegetable. Today I'm going to share a lip smacking snacks recipe which is made with banana flower. but this snack is totally veg version, as in our home onion garlic is not used in this snack, only ginger and ground whole spices are main. Inner part of the Banana flower is the key ingredient here. </p
This is the sweet version of our regular Singara or Samosa, stuffed with khoya mixture and deep fried and dunked into thick sugar syrup.
Ratha-Yatra
This sweet actually looks like drops Or Boond in Hindi. That is why it is called Boondi. Boondi is made with Bengali gram batter or Chikpea batter. Bengali occasional breakfast is incomplete without "Bonde & Luchi"/"Boondi & Puri".
Jamai Sasthi
Green mango chatni should be sweet & spicy, thick and sticky like consistancy. Lots of sugar is used to make this chatni.
Bengali Rice Polao/Pulao/Pilaf is sweeter on the side. Bengali Pulao is cooked with Gobindobhog Rice (Special arometic rice, which is only available in West Bengal), ghee & other vegetables.
Poila Boishakh
Bengalis love Pui shak in stir fry way with eggplant, red pumpkins, potatoes. We serves this stir fried curry with rice & dal in lunch.
Bengali Steamed Prawns is a very easy to make dish, Prawns steamed in Mustard & coconut sauce
Poush Parbon
Rosbora is very easy to make and a famous sweet of any Bengali Family. This sweet is made with Urad dal.
Today I was determined to share this awesome 'Dalpuri Torkari' recipe with you. This 'Alu torkari' is without onion & garlic and little spicy in taste.
Poush Parbon
Rosbora is very easy to make and a famous sweet of any Bengali Family. This sweet is made with Urad dal.
Today I was determined to share this awesome 'Dalpuri Torkari' recipe with you. This 'Alu torkari' is without onion & garlic and little spicy in taste.
Raksha Bandhan
Take a microwave safe square glass/aluminum pan, add ricotta cheese, condensed milk, crushed cardamom seeds and mix with a hand manual beater. Mix well and make sure there
Kalo jaam or kala jamun is a popular cheese-based dessert, similar to a dumpling, popular in countries of the Indian Subcontinent such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh.