Indian Spices

There are two things come to the mind when it comes to Bengali cuisine fish and sweets. Kolkata is famous for its Rasogolla a sweet delicacy famous for its simple yet brilliant taste worldwide. Bengali cuisine is a treasure house of food items which are mouth watering. The reason behind the richness and wide variety of this cuisine is probably the reason Bengalies are foodies. Yes Bengalies love to eat just the way they love to chat. Chat reminds us of another important aspect of this cuisine that is snacks. The Bengalies snack while they chat and chat while they snack. Telebhaja is one snack which could give other world famous snacks a good run for their money. Telebhaja is a simple snack but it has many variations. Mostly made with sliced or chopped vegetables or vegetable stuffing which has been coated with thick batter of Besan and deep fried in hot oil. Fish and Meat stuffing is also used. But if you are not happy with the term deep frying then you can opt for a healthy cooking method steaming which is vastly used in preparing many Bengali delicacies. Bhapa items are extremely popular in Bengal. Mostly used to prepare fish and vegetables. Mustard is used to prepare items like sarshe ilish, sarshe begun and many more. A number of vegetable curries are prepared which includes all sorts of vegetables found here; some of the vegetarian delicacies are Cholar dal, chanar dalna(prepared with cottage cheese), mocha ghanto, polao ( a rice delicacy) the list goes on and on. But if you love gorging on non veg items then come to Bengal for fish items like Galda chingrir malaikari, dab chingri, doi ilish, rui macher kalia, chital macher muiththa;Lover of sweets come here to taste malpua, variuos pithe, sandesh, mihidana and above all rasogolla. In all Bengali cuisine has so many gems in store that as a foodie you would keep coming back for another bite.