10 recipes every Bangladeshi must know ...

[Naimul_Hd]

Originally Posted by Zunaid
Whine, grumble, moan. Irrelevant. Start another thread or post to the muro ghanto thread.

Just because you (and others) do not know it does not excuse you (or them).

Bah Humbug.

Originally Posted by shaad
Wait, Naimul! Are you suggesting that there are single Bengali boys who, after they leave their maa'r achol, don't know how to cook? My god, man, what do you lot eat? Solely cafeteria and restaurant food?

Most of my peers delved into cafeteria and fast food their first semester in the States. By the second semester though, they'd all gotten homesick for genuine Bengali food, and had had their mothers mail them Siddiqua Kabir's cookbook.

Shaad bhai, i do know how to cook but special bengali recipe like 'Murighonto', 'khasir rejala', 'shorshe bata ilish', ;Taki macher bhorta, potoler chilka bhorta, etc do require some expertise and time.

Another thing, there are not many bengali shops around where i live and very few of them have such ingredients. So, iccha thakleo upaye nai


BTW, thanks Zunaid bhai and Shaad bhai for giving me some 'dhatani'. Those should not be any excuses to avoid cooking. I will download 'Bengali recipes' and will start experimenting. On every weekend, there will be a new bengali dish for me ! Apnader doa pratthi !!!

[shaad]

Naimul, just teasing.

BTW, often the local Chinese supermarket will stock a number of "our" ingredients if there are no nearby Bengali/Indian stores.

[Kabir]

Originally Posted by Dilscoop
No desserts?

Oh boy...don't get me started on deserts. I probably don't enjoy food as much as I enjoy desert. Anyone here who has seen me in person can tell that just by looking at me. There are some Bangladeshi deserts like bhapa pitha, 99% of the pithas, gur er kheer, and patishapta pitha that you cannot find anywhere other than in a Bangladeshi home. And when it comes to sweets, the indo/pak sweets don't do justice to our dudhe banano mishtis. In fact, most pakistanis I know choose Bangladeshi mishtis over Indian ones...apparently there is a mishti'r dokan in karachi named "Dhaka sweets".

I am also yet to taste gur in the chinese/indian/pakistani stores that taste as good as BD gur. Probably radars on my taste buds are weak at detecting weak stuff.

[AsifTheManRahman]

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[Kabir]

I just want to eat...

[shuziburo]

Originally Posted by shaad
Wait, Naimul! Are you suggesting that there are single Bengali boys who, after they leave their maa'r achol, don't know how to cook? My god, man, what do you lot eat? Solely cafeteria and restaurant food?

Most of my peers delved into cafeteria and fast food their first semester in the States. By the second semester though, they'd all gotten homesick for genuine Bengali food, and had had their mothers mail them Siddiqua Kabir's cookbook.

I have a copy of that book, but never used it. I just did not like her calling everyone তুমি. She might have been an অধ্যাপিকা, but many nani/dadis also used the book. Now that she is much older, তুমি would not have been so unpalatable.

[shuziburo]

Originally Posted by Kabir
Oh boy...don't get me started on deserts. I probably don't enjoy food as much as I enjoy desert. Anyone here who has seen me in person can tell that just by looking at me. There are some Bangladeshi deserts like bhapa pitha, 99% of the pithas, gur er kheer, and patishapta pitha that you cannot find anywhere other than in a Bangladeshi home. And when it comes to sweets, the indo/pak sweets don't do justice to our dudhe banano mishtis. In fact, most pakistanis I know choose Bangladeshi mishtis over Indian ones...apparently there is a mishti'r dokan in karachi named "Dhaka sweets".

I am also yet to taste gur in the chinese/indian/pakistani stores that taste as good as BD gur. Probably radars on my taste buds are weak at detecting weak stuff.

Oh desserts! I can no longer eat that much, but during my youth, I have eaten 1kg doi and 1kg rajbhog together quite a few times. I was known for my "soru pete goru ate" capability!

[roman]

ei thread e ashlei khida lege jai. dhurr..

[shuziburo]

Originally Posted by roman
ei thread e ashlei khida lege jai. dhurr..

tahole khelei hoy...

[BANFAN]

Originally Posted by shuziburo
I have a copy of that book, but never used it. I just did not like her calling everyone তুমি. She might have been an অধ্যাপিকা, but many nani/dadis also used the book. Now that she is much older, তুমি would not have been so unpalatable.

if my Dadi picks up that book, she is a student, learning.

And tumi is a much more friendly address than Apni .... no wonder such word (Apni) dont even exist in many languages. Coz respect is not in tumi/apni..some where else, if we only knew that. These days even children call their parents and grand parents tumi... whats the big fuss with that ???

[shuziburo]

Originally Posted by BANFAN
if my Dadi picks up that book, she is a student, learning.

And tumi is a much more friendly address than Apni .... no wonder such word (Apni) dont even exist in many languages. Coz respect is not in tumi/apni..some where else, if we only knew that. These days even children call their parents and grand parents tumi... whats the big fuss with that ???

You might be okay with another 30-year younger Bangladeshi whom you don't know calling you tumi. I am not. (BTW, calling parents/grandparents tumi is common, but the author is not a relative of most of her readers.)

Let's agree to disagree on this.

[simon]

I cooked rui mach bhuna with begun & tomato, it's my favorite & it was delicious, I surprised myself.

[mufi_02]

Ektu lebu chipariya, kacha piyaz ar kacha morich diya khawa shuru koira den. Hebby moja.

[simon]

^^kar uddeshshey bolla Mufi miya?

[mufi_02]

Apnar uddeshshey simon bhai. I do it most of the time. Ektu lebu, kacha morich and boroi achar. Gorur mangsho hoile ektu kacha piyaj o nei.

[simon]

Originally Posted by mufi_02
Apnar uddeshshey simon bhai. I do it most of the time. Ektu lebu, kacha morich and boroi achar. Gorur mangsho hoile ektu kacha piyaj o nei.

oo achcha, I do like kacha peyaj, but avoid achar or lebu as they often change the taste of the curry, otherwise lebu with daal is good.

[Kabir]

Khashi'r rezala...kothay tumi amar rezala...tomake pele ami onek bhalobasha diye tomake khetam. Arr jodi shonge tomar boro bon "kalijira'r polao" thakto, taile tomader donojon ke mon bhorey khetam r bhalobashtam.

[AsifTheManRahman]

I like it when you guys talk dirty.

[Zeeshan]

Better than TCP/IP hein?

[Zeeshan]

Originally Posted by shuziburo
You might be okay with another 30-year younger Bangladeshi whom you don't know calling you tumi. I am not. (BTW, calling parents/grandparents tumi is common, but the author is not a relative of most of her readers.)

Let's agree to disagree on this.

And I thought Rabz took everything seriously.

[simon]

ami shudhu Khashir rezala tai khabo
any recipe

[FagunerAgun]

Originally Posted by simon
ami shudhu Khashir rezala tai khabo
any recipe

zzzsssssssllllllll.... ...ami shudhu khaitei jani..recipe janina bhai.

[Antora]

This thread is making me hungry, especially those pita pictures .
Anyway, picking 10 is waaaaaaay too difficult. But I will name one and that is SHUTKI!
my aim in life is to be an awesome SHUTKI cooker. I love SHUTKI *droools*

[shaad]

I'll have a crack at it. As Zunaid asked, these are 10 recipes that I think every Bangladeshi should know. Obviously, one should know many more; but I think one tends to encounter versions of these in most Bengali households during lunch or dinner. And yes, I've cheated somewhat -- in merging dishes where knowing how to prepare one variety means you know how to prepare others.

• Bhaat (I know, I know; but I've come across Bangladeshi boys here in the States who don't know how to prepare rice -- they use Uncle Ben's.) and its derivatives: khichuri, biryani, pullao, etc.
• Shaak/Shaag -- lal, paalong, data, etc.
• Bhortas -- starting at the very least, with alu, and progressing to say, begun, taki machh, chingri machh, etc.
• Some form of vegetable bhaja -- begun, potol, etc.
• Some form of vegetable bhaji -- alu, lau, kodu, etc.
• Some form of machh bhaja -- ilish, koi, rui, rupchanda, etc.
• Some form of machher jhol -- papta, pangash, magur, shing, etc.
• Some form of meat (murgi, khashi, gorur mangsho) curry -- kalia, korma, rezala, with narikel, with daal, etc.
• Keema
• Daal -- at least mung (moog) and masur.

[roman]

Originally Posted by shuziburo
tahole khelei hoy...

kintu emon shusshadu khabar kothay paabo? Ekek jon jei shundor shob khabar er naam nisse amar to pran jai jai obostha..

Ami ranna pari kintu Kachci biriyani aar Shutki banate pari na.