Delicious dishes of Bengal

The wide verities of street foods of our country invariably mesmerize me with sublime joy and desire to test it again and again. India, as a vast country has diverse cultural milieu and that offers wide range of food dishes that one can never keep himself or herself away from. Being the residence of Kolkata and my little experience to visit a very few places of our nation and tested the regional foods gave me an exclusive opportunity to share my experiences with you all. I, being a pure food-lover most of the times love to test different meat and fish items that are cheaply available on road sides and cooked at home. Many may differ with me that consumption of street foods is not good for health but to me the passion for food lies in its test above all the protocols of hygiene.

First and foremost the items that I am going to talk about are different delicious fish dishes that are mainly cooked at home, which contains most of our plates round the year. Hilsa or known regionally by Ilish (fish) is regarded as the king of fishes in Bengal. It has innumerable verities of dishes that would fulfill your appetite in every go. The recipe or dish that I am going to narrate here is the common one that we, the Bengalis have definitely tested at home. The test of Hilsa fish is just beyond my temptation when it is cooked with grinned Mustard and with unripe banana which thoroughly steamed to come to a position, where the layer of Mustard would float thickly above the dried up gravy with mouthwatering flavor and taste of it. While, mix the gravy with rice and swallowing up the soft delicious pieces of Hilsa with it, the entire experience would take you to a different level. Now comes Prone or as regionally known Chingri, with same Mustard and coconut but this time, the preparation shall be different and as it would not have any gravy in it. The pure fragrance and hotness of chilly and Mustard would give you a mix taste in your mouth while biting the crispy fleshes of prone and testing the cream of coconut mixed in it.

Moving forward with these two fish items, I would now love to talk about my all time favorite Mutton. As a food-lover, I just enjoy eating red meats in any situation as long as it has the strong flavor and taste in it. Now while talking about our traditional home made Mutton that has a unique taste and can’t be compared to anything of outside brings about an unknown happiness in my on the days I bite the juicy bones of it. It holds different significance provided that it is being eaten with white steam rice during meal time. Firstly, its softness and yummy flavor of the fat would contain all your hunger and apatite while you would simply let it go through your throat to the ultimate destination in your belly. With its every bite the bone would release the juice that contains a richness in it which would certainly fill your mind with joy and pleasure. The fragrance of Garam Masala in mutton adds different taste in it among many other varieties of ingredients that are being used to make it more rich and testy.  

Now, if I talk about the chicken items that are readily available on street in wide range of verities from Tanduri to Reshmi Kabab, only alone its imagination intrigues my longing to taste them right at this moment. The sizzling flavor of ‘Chicken Reshmi Kabab’ is something that all would fall in love for. Putting it in your mouth and the first bite in it gives the strong flavor of masalas that are being added in it, which contains both spice and hotness. On the other hand the crispy taste of hot Tanduri brings heaven while gulping it in with every greedy bite of yours.

There is no end of testing food but it would be more appropriate while testing and sharing my views on them with first-hand experience (while eating) which I very much intend to do in near future. However, food has always been my favorite and I am someone, who eats to live not live to eat and thus, I believe in future I shall have many more beautiful experiences to share with you all about different food items all across the nation as well as world.