Bengali Meal

This is a special Bengali meal I cooked on a very special occasion.

It was my husband's birthday and I ran out of ideas to get a gift for him.

We Bengali love to eat and I thought what can I do to make a good meal

for his birthday. So I thought of this crazy, yummy idea of presenting

him with a big fat Bengali meal.

Bengali cuisine is too vast and varied that it is physically impossible for

someone to cover the entire breadth of it, however, I tried to cover as many

representative dishes as possible. Also I had to keep in mind that my husband could eat or at least be able to taste all the items I cook J so what I did was picked the items I could get in our local Indian grocery store and cook the meal. It took me two evenings to prepare this meal.

Here is a list of items that I have in the photo above.

1. Bhat (Plain white rice )

2. Phulkopi bhaja (Cauliflower fry)

3. Kumro bhaja (Butternut squash fry)

4. Begun bhaja (Brinjol fry)

5. Alu Bhaja (Potato fry)

6. Ilish maach er dim bhaja (Fried hilsha eggs)

7. Mung dal (Lentil soup)

8. Bhindi Masala

9. Egg Curry

10. Ilish maach er jhal (Hilsa in mustard sauce)

11. Pomfret fish fry

12. Cucumber

13. Red onion

14. Lime

15. Green chilly

16. Kosha mansho (Mutton curry)

17. Chingri maache er malai curry (Prawns in coconut sauce)

18. Semai er payesh (Vermicelli milk pudding)

19. Suji er halwa (Semolina pudding)

20. Chocolate cake

21. Jalebi

22. Misty Doi (Sweet yogurt)

23. Glass of water

Soon I will start uploading the recipes (the ones I cooked) as well.