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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!!!

Click here to view Bengali cuisine part 1.