Bori is one of the most traditional and oldest food items in the history of Bangladesh. It is what's called - tofu to our culture, being produced, preserved and eaten for hundreds of years as a substitute of meat. Bori is typically made of pulses - red lentils, Black gram or split peas with sometimes …
Jujube (Ziziphus zizyphus) or as we call it Boroi or Kuul in Bangladesh, is a sweet and sour fruit that can be found during late winter and early spring. It is a beloved fruit and eaten in different ways in Bangladesh. In this article (link), you can see the various stages of Boroi being collected, …
Continue reading Jujube Pickle – Boroi er Achar (বড়ই এর আঁচার)
Exactly a year ago I came back to Vegan Bangla by writing one of my father's favorite recipe to commemorating him. The recipe was Bitter gourd stir fry. After only 10 days, it will be three years when COVID-19 was announced pandemic. I don't know how the dates fell so closely, may be it is …
Previously I wrote a recipe on green papaya stir fry. So today's recipe will be a Bengali style stew with Bangladeshi spices. In Bengali or Bangla language we call the stew "Jhol." There are many kinds of jhol, spicy, non spicy, with lots of spices or no spices. Usually we make this non spicy, no …
Continue reading Papaya Stew Bengali Style – Peper Jhol (পেঁপের ঝোল)
I can neither find the translation nor find the exact species of this Jaam Potato aka Jaam alu. This particular kind of potato can be found in northern parts of Bangladesh and can only be found in late winter (February). Jaam means a kind of berry in Bangladesh and reddish purple in colour when cut. …
Continue reading Mashed Purple Potato – Jaam Alu Bhorrta (জাম আলু ভর্তা)
Happy New Year 2023 and Happy Veganuary! Being vegan in January has become a recent trend. I guess everything is about following trend. Anyway, with or without being a part of the recent trend, I am writing today my first recipe of 2023. It is a recipe of green papaya or pepe (পেঁপে ) as …
Continue reading Green Papaya Stir Fry – Kacha Pepe Bhaji (কাঁচা পেঁপে ভাজি)
Turnip was never my favorite vegetable. Probably because I hadn't had any good preparation of it. However, living in Denmark made me awfully missing all the Bangladeshi vegetable so whenever I get something similar to Bangladeshi veggies, I try them without hesitation. So today I will share turnip recipe in Bangladeshi way. Jump to recipe …
Continue reading Turnip Stir Fry – Shalgom Bhaji (শালগম ভাজি)
My father's favorite veggie was radish. I hated it as a kid, also not a big fan either now, but my husband also is a big fan of radish (I don't know why,lol). So to occasionally change the taste and to remember my father, I buy this particular veggie and cook in different ways. In …
Continue reading Potato Radish Winter Curry -Alu Mular Shiter Torkari (আলু মূলার শীতের তরকারি)
Shingara is one of the most popular street food in Bangladesh. It is pronounced as Shing Gara, and it is kind of fried dumpling with crispy yet soft pastry crust with different types of fillings inside. Our neighboring country has something similar which is called Samosa, but in Bangladesh, Samosa or Samucha is different street …
Continue reading Fried Potato Dumpling – Shingara (সিঙ্গারা)
Halloween was just a week ago and at the same time, it took away bright colored autumn and brought gloomy cloudy days in Denmark. But so what, my days can still be brightened with colorful pumpkin from Halloween season. Today's recipe is special in lots of ways. First of all, this is a recipe from …
In Bangladesh, we use Pach Phoron a lot to our veggie dishes and daal. Without Pach Phoron, our pickles are incomplete. Pach Phoron is full of flavor and works like magic adding to a dish. But question is what is that? Pach means five and phoron is a verb, which means to sizzle something in …
This is my most favourite pickle recipe so far. I love garlic and I love pickle. No wonder I would love when two of them are combined - Garlic pickle. This recipe I got from another amazing Bangladeshi cook Rumana. Her garlic pickle recipe is full proof, fantastic and super tasty that you must try …
Continue reading Garlic Pickle – Roshuner Achar (রসুনের আচার)
This is the easiest and quickest pickle recipe I have ever made. It is delicious, tangy, spicy and adds a load of flavor to your food. So if you ever have extra lime lying around in your house, you should try make this too. Sometimes due to sickness, our taste bud does not work. This …
Today's recipe is the fastest recipe I have ever made in Vegan Bangla. Usually when we make bhorrta (spread), it tends to be easier and faster than other Bangladeshi recipes. I am going to make green coriander spread today, which has many others ways to make. Remember this is not a chatni recipe. Chatni is …
Continue reading Green Coriander Spread – Dhonia Patar Bhorrta (ধনিয়া পাতার ভর্তা)
I am truly excited to write today's recipe as it involves green jackfruit! Previously I wrote the green jackfruit curry recipe, which is one of the most common recipe in Bangladesh to make with green jackfruit. Today I am writing how to make patty which you can eat as a snack or even make a …
Continue reading Green Jackfruit Patty – Echorer Bora (এঁচোড়ের বড়া)
This year 2022, I have grew a few varieties of tomato plants in my balcony. Due to change of the direction of sun light, the harvest was not enough as expected but it was okay. Few days ago, me and my girl Pompom (look how cute she is!) picked up some tomatoes from the balcony …
Continue reading Green Tomato Stir Fry – Kacha Tomator Bhaji (কাঁচা টমেটোর ভাজি)
You might have eaten lentil soup or even lentil patty in a burger. But have you ever eater curry with lentil patty? Yes, today I will write a hearty, warm and delicious recipe of lentil patty curry. When you bored of lentil soup (daal) or stir fried veggies, you can make this fantastic combination of …
Continue reading Lentil Patty Curry – Daal Borar torkary (ডালবড়ার তরকারি)
Spiny gourd (Momordica dioica) as we Bangladeshis call it Kakrol, looks and taste very different than many other vegetables in Bangladesh. It is not bitter but taste like cucumber with texture. There's many recipes of Kakrol but today we are making the stuffed version. Jump to recipe Besides Kakrol itself, we need gram flour or …
Continue reading Stuffed Spiny Gourd – Pur Bhora Kakrol (পুর ভরা কাঁকরোল)
We Bangladeshis can make bhorrta (spread) out of anything that you can imagine! So here's today I present one of the bhorrta recipe which might seems unusual for you but I promise that if you can handle chili then it would be very delicious for you. Jump to recipe Yes, today I make spread from …
Continue reading Linseed Spread – Tishi Bhorrta (তিসি ভর্তা)
Today's recipe is bit adventurous and improvised. One day I was walking in a park with my friend and found the small yellow plums lying under this beautiful tree and there were so much of them! I didn't know then what was it called, now that I googled it, I know that it's called Mirabelle …
Continue reading Mirabelle Plum Pickle – Mirabelle Plum er Aachar (মিরাবেলে প্লামের আঁচার)
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