Bengali Cuisine (part 2)
Evening snacks is the best meal of the day. It
mainly comes up with food elements like pakoras, cutlets, fried croquettes,
rolls etc. that we all love to relish with some dips, sauces and salads.
Whether the snacks are from streets or kitchen we all love to enjoy it by
keeping our diet plan aside. After all!! Quick bites are the best thing to have
in this fast n furious lifestyle.
Well!! Bengalis
Cuisine has abundant varieties of yummilicious snacks and quick bites which
will surely launch missiles of happiness in your soul and your love for this
cuisine will break the food-o-meter.
So let’s get
started with types of lip smacking and alluring snacks in Bengali cuisine.
·
Mochar
chop
This is a kind of
cutlet or croquette filled with mocha (no!! not coffee mocha). Mocha is the “Banana
flower” that is used in this dish along with some grated coconut, roasted
peanuts, mashed potato, coriander, tamarind and spices. These all ingredients
are then mixed and coated with breadcrumbs and deep fried. This alluring
brownish golden treat is then served with salad and kashondi (mustard sauce).
·
Ghugni
This is a kind of
semi gravy “Yellow peas chaat” garnished with chopped onion, coriander
and chilies. This snack is very famous in Kolkata streets and it’s really good
for someone who likes to go less on spice but more on flavors. This is a simple
snack with crackles of flavors in it. It hardly takes 30-40 min to cook. This
can be served with loochi (Maida poori) or you can have it as it is.
·
Beguni
Bhaja
Struggling with
difficult words?! I am here to decode it for you and will make sure that you
drool for this snack too. Beguni bhaja is a simple deep fried “Sliced eggplant
pakoda” but the coating of the brinjal should be puffed up. So yeah! Terms
and conditions applied. This is mainly twinned with rice and dal, but
yes of course you can always have it with chai (tea).
·
Muglai
Parantha
This is not a
usual parantha that we all have in our breakfast. This is a kind of deep fried
envelope filled with egg, sliced vegetables and minced meat. The outer covering
is made up of all purpose flour (Maida). Both of my vegetarian and non
vegetarians’ friends can enjoy this snack by choosing the type of filling
according to their preference. It’s a crispy delight which can easily fill up
your tummy and satisfy your hunger but leaving you with wanting more desire.
·
Rolls
In many streets of
you must have seen “Kolkata’s famous rolls ”, this tagline is used to
influence huge crowd of Delhi (or any state). Rolls made by Bengalis don’t
follow the basic recipe. Fillings like chicken ,mutton, cottage cheese, vegetables
and many more are first prepared with lots of love and authentic flavors and
then wrapped in thin flat bread (made with all purpose flour) with mustard
sauced and sliced salads.
·
Chur Mur
Chaat
It is a tangy, savory
chaat. It involves some really alluring mixture of exciting ingredients like
crushed phucka, boiled yellow peas, soaked tamarind, boiled potatoes, chopped
onion, chopped chilies etc. Phucka is golgappa only, made with whole wheat
flour (Atta) and semolina (Sooji). These all ingredients are then mashed
together and sprinkled with some spices and then served with love.
·
Fish Cutlet
Fish is the
lifeline for Bengalis, so how they can resist themselves from including this
staple food in their snacks. This cutlet is made by marinating fish fillets and
then coating it with breadcrumbs, egg and all purpose flour. It can be served
in every meal, not an issue .
Drooling?! don’t worry I have a perfect solution to calm
down your excited taste buds, you can get all these snacks from Mochar chop to
Fish cutlet at Market-1,Chittaranjan park, New Delhi.
Show love to my
post and will come soon with Bengali cuisine (part 3).
Happy burping!!!
