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Menu du jour chorchori : 11 Recipes


  • Recipe Borbotir Chorchori
    Borbotir Chorchori
    I don?t know how to cook Borboti any other way, except for the traditional Bengali Chorchori . Borboti/ Barbarti is a summer vegetable, the rest of the world calls it Yard Long Bean or Runner Bean and sometimes even Asparagus Beans.[...]
  • Recipe S?jn? Dãt? Chorchori
    S?jn? Dãt? Chorchori
    S?jn? Dãt? is Bengali for Saijhan, Sajna or Drumsticks ( Moringa oleifera ). Its essentially a summer ?vegetable?, where the local bazaar would get these fresh-looking, juicy pods packed with vitamins, calcium, and other important nutrients.[...]
  • Recipe Alu Chorchori Memories
    Alu Chorchori Memories
    My Mother was brought up by her Grandmother. Mum called her ?Didumoni?. The next generation of kids called her ?Nani?. The rest of the world called her ?Maiji?. Nani always wore a white tanter sari with black or navy blue border, a thick gold[...]
  • Recipe Ilish Maacher Matha Diye Pui Shaaker Chorchori
    Ilish Maacher Matha Diye Pui Shaaker Chorchori (1 vote)
    We Bongs pretty much eat every part of the fish, including its head! The head of a fish (like Rohu and other fatty big fish) increases your vision and memory. Some heart associations wholeheartedly agree that the Omega-3 fatty acids or[...]
  • Recipe Panch Misali Chorchori - Bengali Mixed Vegetable Medley
    Panch Misali Chorchori - Bengali Mixed Vegetable Medley
    Our Sunday lunches are usually both simple and complex at the same time. I try to do something closer to homey food. Something either I have grown up with or probably something closer to the MIL's cooking. Winter has been really hard this[...]
  • Recipe Panch Misali Chorchori - Bengali Mixed Vegetable Medley
    Panch Misali Chorchori - Bengali Mixed Vegetable Medley
    Our Sunday lunches are usually both simple and complex at the same time. I try to do something closer to homey food. Something either I have grown up with or probably something closer to the MIL's cooking. Winter has been really hard this[...]
  • Recipe Mete Chorchori, Quick Liver Stir-fry, the Bengali Way
    Mete Chorchori, Quick Liver Stir-fry, the Bengali Way (3 votes)
    I was a very thin kid. I have photographic evidence to prove it. Like most mother?s of the previous generation, mine too thought that a chubby kid is a healthy kid. Mine, a first-time mother at 25 took things in her own hands and started with a[...]
  • Recipe Pui Chingri Chorchori - Malabar Spinach and vegetable medley with Shrimps
    Pui Chingri Chorchori - Malabar Spinach and vegetable medley with Shrimps
    Eastern India where I grew up incorporates a variety of greens and vegetable medleys in the cooking. Actually, now that I think about it, there are several regional combinations of vegetables across India. These combinations other than providing[...]
  • Recipe They Call it Cauliflower!
    They Call it Cauliflower!
    When I had moved to Bangalore, I was, of course Kannada illiterate. But very soon I realized that I could get away by suffixing just one single syllable to a lot of English words and ?speak? to locals who did not understand English and Hindi. Or[...]
  • Recipe Homemade Bhoger Khichudi and Labra
    Homemade Bhoger Khichudi and Labra
    The Bengali knows when Durga Puja is in the air. The air she breathes starts smelling of Balsams and Marigolds. The morning sun she basks in is a glorious hue of gold, and the evenings are nippy. In between the glory and the nip, she[...]