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At Bong Eats we document the food of Calcutta. We cook traditional Bengali recipes prepared in home kitchens, as well as some of the most beloved dishes found in the myriad streets, cabins, and restaurants in the city.
While we share some of the classic recipes with you (because who doesn’t love shorshe ilish, chingri malai curry, and mishti doi?), we also bring you a whole host of dishes that are considered too humble for guests. They are eaten in the privacy of our own families, and provide as much comfort as they do nutrition.
With this project, Bong Eats, we hope to demystify such preparations and make them accessible to just about anyone interested in cooking and eating.
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This channel is a labour of love. It is run by Saptarshi Chakraborty and Insiya Poonawala. All content on this site (including text, photos, videos, and artwork) is copyrighted to Bong Eats.
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✨NEW video! Link: https://youtu.be/1ALdB9gUdmE
This sheem bhorta recipe comes from one of the most naturally talented cooks we know, my mother’s neighbour and friend Aditi Bhowmik—we call her Lopa kakima. This recipe is her third on our channel, the other two being her extremely tasty shorshe-posto diye maccher jhol and the most sublime kacha tetuler tok.
I think of this dish, sheemer bhorta, like a savoury haluwa, where the flat beans are ground and then cooked down in a lot of mustard oil until almost all of the water evaporates, the mixture becomes glossy, and finally if you continue down that path it becomes caramel-y and fudgy. Imagine a hot, savoury fudge with vegetable notes. That is what this tastes like.
In the sequence of a Bengali lunch, you will be served only a small spoon of this. You mix it with plain boiled rice, preferably a sturdy parboiled rice, and devour it, savouring the heat. Afterwards, you realise your forehead is shiny with sweat even on a cool winter day. We hope you make it while sheem is in season.
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No better time than winter for spicy, fugdy, delicious sheemer bhorta!
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BREAKING: Sreemoyee's film is now on Criterion alongside legendary filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Kiarostami, Mira Nair and other all-time masters. This adda is (arguably) the best thing you'll watch this weekend, particularly if you are someone that loves world cinema and food.
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If you love cinema and food, set aside an hour this weekend to watch this episode of “Rannaghare Ke?” with filmmaker Sreemoyee Singh.
👉🏾https://youtu.be/D1nmIV6HfWI
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In in third instalment of our four-part series with Jessie Yung, chef and co-founder of Jessie Yung's Kitchen, she makes a wonderfully comforting dish using firm tofu called "steamed beancurd" (蒸豆腐).
Fresh, silken tofu (豆腐) has been produced by local businesses in Tangra, Calcutta's Chinatown, for generations. Jessie recalls eating fresh, silken tofu with ginger syrup as a child for dessert.
However, it is the firmer, drier version of tofu, called teokon (豆乾), that is most suitable for our recipe today. It is sturdier than soft tofu and can withstand the filling. Speaking of, Jessie prepares a delicious minced pork filling using carrots, spring onions and shiitake mushrooms for texture, and some sauces and seasonings for flavour.
Once the beancurd triangles are stuffed, you have two options when it comes to cooking them: you can steam them or deep-fry them. Normally, these are made in a large batch in Jessie's family, out of which one batch is eaten steamed the same day, and the leftovers are put in the fridge to firm up and be fried another time.
"Fried beancurd" (炸豆腐) can be made by frying the stuffed beancurd with the raw filling, or by deep-frying the steamed beancurd in hot oil until golden.
These can be served with any Chinese sauce of your choice. Jessie prepares a Chinese black bean sauce, Douchijiang (豆豉酱), to go with it. This dish is best enjoyed with a fragrant, non-parboiled, steamed rice.
👋🏾Watch episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6szDI...
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New video out today!
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✨New episode https://youtu.be/QH1mIoJxZEI ✨
Raina Talukder is back on Pasher Barir Ranna with a super-simple, comforting, and protein-packed recipe from the Chakma cuisine, called “huro gudiye”.
In the Chakma language “huro” means “chicken” and “gudiye” is “mash”. Raina describes this dish as kind-of-a-bhorta, but not really as smooth or finely pounded as a bhorta or a baata.
The key to this dish is to fully utilise the entire range of flavours and textures chicken has to offer. In this recipe, Raina calls for using chicken with skin, with a good mix of meat, bones and cartilage. The meat forms the body, the skin adds flavour and enhances mouthfeel, and the cartilage adds crunch and texture.
The Chittagong hilltracts are considered the home of the Chakma community. Raina, whose grandfather was the first Chakma person to settle in Kolkata, describes her family’s cooking as deeply connected to their origins, but having imbibed local influences from living for generations in Kolkata.
This dish, huro gudiye, is best eaten warm, for lunch, with steaming hot rice. In the video, Raina also serves alongside it another Chakma speciality, “hurbo”, which is a cold salad marianted with chilli paste and fermented fish.
Do try this delightfully fresh and easy recipe, which, from start to finish, takes only 30 minutes to make, TOPS!
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✨In this episode of “Pasher Barir Ranna” Doma Wang makes her quick and easy Chilli Liver. Link: https://youtu.be/qqx-bWi3-mU
Funnily, this recipe was not in our original plan for things Doma di would be cooking for her series with us. It was Sachiko who convinced her mum to make this for you guys. So, if you find this recipe helpful you know who to thank!
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Yearly ritual of making kamranga and kucho nimki! Important update: we've revised the measurement of salt this time. If you are following our recipe, be sure to check the website first!
▶️ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tspnu...
✍🏽 Website: www.bongeats.com/recipe/kamranga-nimki
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Subho bijoya, friends. We took a two-week break for pujo. Back to regular programming now. New video out tomorrow (Friday)!
PS: Insiya and I hardly have any good photos together—we are so lazy taking photos of ourselves! This photo is courtesy, our friend Debashis.
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