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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Fulkopir Vada Recipe: Bengali Recipes

Fulkopir Vada is a popular Bengali recipe. Let’s learn how to prepare/make Fulkopir Vada Recipe.


Difficulty: Easy

Recipe Type: Veg.


Ingredients:

  • 1 Cauliflower
  • 1 cup Besan
  • 1 tsp Oil
  • 1/2 tsp Chili powder
  • 1/2 tsp Poppy Seeds
  • Oil for frying (deep)
  • Salt to taste


Let’s prepare/make Fulkopir Vada:

  • Cut the cauliflower into small pieces.
  • To make the pieces soft, boil in water heated in a pan.
  • Mix 1 tsp oil and besan in a large bowl and mix well.
  • Add little water and prepare batter with solid constancy.
  • Add poppy seeds, chili powder and salt.
  • Punch the batter properly.
  • Wet softened cauliflower pieces into the batter.
  • Deep-fry in oil.
  • Remove from the burner and now Fulkopir Vada is ready to serve.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Humus Recipe: Indian Recipes

Humus is a yummy taster. Let’s learn how to prepare/make Humus Recipe.


Difficulty: Easy

Recipe Type: Veg.


Ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 1 can Garbanzo Beans
  • Juice of one Lemon
  • 2-3 tbsp Tahini Sauce
  • 1 clove of Garlic
  • Salt to taste


Let’s prepare/make Humus:

  • Drain 1/3 the water from the can of garbanzo beans into a bowl.
  • Keep the bowl aside for later use.
  • Mix together the garbanzo beans with rest of the elements, in a blender.
  • Blend for about few minutes or till smooth.
  • You can add small amount of the saved can water and blend to create a more fluid consistency, if it’s required.
  • Now Humus is ready.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Fish Cutlet Recipe: Bengali Recipes

Fish Cutlet is a really a very tasty and popular recipe. Let’s learn how to prepare/make Fish Cutlet Recipe.


Difficulty : Little bit difficult

Recipe Type : Non Veg.


Ingredients:

  • ½ kg Fish
  • 2 Bread slice
  • 2 Egg
  • 1 Cup Bread Crumbs
  • 2-3 Green Chillies
  • ½ tsp Garam Masala
  • 1½ tbsp Corn Flour
  • 1½ tsp Garlic paste
  • 1½ tsp Ginger paste
  • ½ tsp Turmeric Powder
  • 1 Bunch of Coriander Leaves
  • Oil for frying
  • Salt to taste


Let’s prepare/make Fish Cutlet:

  • Rub fish and Smear with salt and turmeric powder. Wash it after few minutes.
  • For steaming keep the fish over a pan of hot water.
  • Eliminate the bones and smoothly mash it using hands. Soak the bread slices in water and squeeze it.
  • Add ginger-garlic paste, corn flour, green chillies, red chilli powder, garam masala powder, coriander leaves, bread slice and salt.
  • Mix all the above component and make walnut sized balls and squash the ball slightly.
  • Take the crushed egg. Plunge the cutlet pieces in egg and rotate in breadcrumbs.
  • Warm up the oil slightly in a wok. Fry till the pieces gets brown colour.
  • Fish cutlet is ready.
  • You can serve it with chutney and potato fingers.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Saint Martin's Image- Natural Beauty of Bangladesh









Saint Martin- Narikel Jinjira (Coconut Island)- Bangladesh

Saint Martin is the only and most beautiful coral island in Bangladesh. A place where you can enjoy beautiful coral reef and a sandy beach, coconut trees around the beach, beautiful marine life, deep blue water and most of all peaceful environment.
About 9 km south of the tip of the Cox’s Bazar to Teknaf peninsula, southernmost part of Bangladesh located in the Bay of Bengal. It is approximately 8 km west of the northwest coast at the mouth of the Naf River of Myanmar. Dhaka to St Martin is approximately 510 km in entire distance. St. Martin is only 8 sq km so it is possible to walk around the island within a day, which is reduced to about 5 sq km during high tide.
The original name of this island is Narikel Jinjira (Coconut Island). The Bengali name of the Coconut is Narikel.
Approximately 6,000 islanders stay on St. Martin’s island and they make living from tourism and fishing. Now a day the island has become quite popular from last few years and there are few luxury ocean liners in St Martin’s island routes. They are keary-Sindad, Sea-Truck and Kutubdia. November to February is tourist season of St. Martin.
Whenever you’ll think of St. Martin’s tour think about moonlight. The amazing beauty of full-moon in St. Martin’s Island never be expressed; whole night feel and listen the sound of the Bay of Bengal. Amazingly bountiful stars get on a moonless night, due to the lack of electricity on St. Martin.
Food of island is comparatively expensive than Cox’s Bazar. The islanders sell lobsters, see fish, dried see fish which is little expensive but very tasty. Crabs and Chickens are also available in there hotels.
You’ll get coconuts tasty water with very low cost. Don’t miss to drink coconuts to sit on coral with wetting legs in the sea, which is really amazing experience.
Cheera-dwip (Cheera-Island) is an extension part of St. Martin which is divided during high tides. It’s possible to go to Cheera-dwip by walk within two and half an hours from St. Martin, local motorboat or tourist boat is available to go to Cheera-dwip. A small bush is there which in the only green part of Cheera-dwip. People do not live in this Island, so advisable for the tourists to go there early and come back within afternoon.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Dry Mutton Recipe: Bengali Recipes

Dry Mutton is a very tasty and well-liked recipe. Let’s learn how to prepare/make Dry Mutton Recipe.


Difficulty : Easy

Recipe Type : Non Veg.


Ingredients:

  • 500 gm Mutton
  • 10 crushed Garlic Cloves
  • 1 cup Mustard Oil
  • 1 inch grated piece of Ginger
  • 1 tbsp Garam Masala Powder
  • 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
  • 1 cup Curd
  • 2 Bay Leaves
  • Salt to taste


Let’s prepare/make Dry Mutton:

  • Hammer the curd.
  • Preserve mutton pieces in salt, curd and 1 tbsp of oil with turmeric for about 2 hours.
  • Heat up oil in a kadhai.
  • Include bay leaves, garlic and ginger.
  • Fry for a minute.
  • Add preserved mutton pieces.
  • Make the fire low and cook for nearly half an hour till the mutton pieces become tender.
  • Mix garam masala with it and stir as it should be.
  • When the mutton turns tender and almost dry, remove it from the flame.
  • Dry Mutton is ready.

Corn Pakoras Recipe: Bengali Recipes

Corn Pakoras is a delectable tea time snack. Let’s learn how to prepare/make Corn Pakoras Recipe.


Preparation time : 10 minutes

Cooking time : 25 minutes

Difficulty : Little bit difficult

Recipe type : veg.

Serve : 6


Ingredients:

  • 300 gm Corn Kernels
  • 6-7 tbsp Gram Flour (besan)
  • 3 tsp Green Chilli Paste
  • 1/2 tsp Ginger Paste
  • 1 tsp Chaat Masala
  • 2 tbsp Fresh chopped Coriander Leaves
  • 1 tsp Coriander Powder
  • Oil to fry
  • Salt to taste


Let’s prepare/make Corn Pakoras:

  • Roughly grind the corn kernels in a mixer and transfer it to a big bowl.
  • Now add green chilli paste, gram flour, chaat masala, ginger paste, coriander powder, coriander leaves and little water to the corn kernels and all the item mix well.
  • Heat oil and drop spoonful of corn mixture and fry till gets it golden brown.
  • Take out from oil and serve.

Chum Chum Recipe: Bengali Recipes

Chum Chum is a conventional Bengali recipe. Let’s learn how to prepare/make Chum Chum Recipe.


Difficulty : Little bit difficult

Recipe Type: Veg.


Ingredients:

  • 5 tbsp Maida
  • 600 gms Cottage cheese
  • 250 gms Condensed milk
  • 3 Cups sugar
  • 2 tsp Saffron


Let’s prepare/make Chum Chum:

  • Flour and cottage cheese mix well and make soft dough.
  • By this dough make oval shaped balls and keep it to the side.
  • Get ready sugar syrup of thin constancy.
  • Keep the oval shaped pieces in sugar syrup and mix it.
  • Heat it for few minutes.
  • Put the cooked balls in a plate.
  • Put saffron in condensed milk.
  • Shake over it on Chum Chum balls.
  • Now serve the Chum Chum.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Chicken Rezala Recipe: Bengali Recipes

Chicken Rezala is a delicious curry. Let’s learn how to prepare/make Chicken Rezala Recipe.

Difficulty : Easy
Recipe Type : Non Veg.

Ingredients:
  • 1 medium Chicken
  • 1 tbsp Wheat flour
  • 4 Onions
  • 8 pcs Red chili
  • 2 tsp Ghee
  • 3 tsp Garlic paste
  • 2 tsp Garam masala
  • 2 tsp Ginger paste
  • 4 tbsp White oil
  • 1/2 Cup keora water
  • 8 Peppercorns
  • 200 gm Sour curd
  • 2 Bay leaves
  • Water as needed
  • Salt to taste

Let’s prepare/make Chicken Rezala:
  • Cut and wash chicken into pieces.
  • Add garam masala, peppercorns and bay leaf to the heated oil.
  • Fry chicken pieces with the spices.
  • When the water gets dry in chicken, mix garlic, ginger and onion to it and cook well.
  • Merge a mixture of curd, flour and salt it.
  • Now mix keora water to it.
  • Vapour them with 3 cups of water in a pressure cooker for about 15 minutes.
  • Warm up ghee and red chilli with serving spoon and mix it with the chicken.
  • Ready to serve.

Bhapa Chingri Recipe: Bengali Recipes

Bhapa Chingri is a lip-smacking Bengali recipe. Let’s learn how to prepare/make Bhapa Chingri Recipe.


Difficulty : Little bit difficult

Recipe Type : Non Veg.


Ingredients:

  • 12-15 Pieces of prawns
  • 10-12 Pieces green chilli (chopped)
  • 6 tbsp Paste of white mustard and chilli
  • 1/2 Coconut (paste)
  • 125 gm Mustard oil
  • 3 tsp Turmeric powder
  • Sugar and salt to taste


Let’s prepare/make Bhapa Chingri:

  • Wash prawns pieces appropriately and then merge it in salt water for about 7 minutes.
  • Mix coconut paste, oil, mustard paste, turmeric, sugar and salt.
  • Release the prawns from the water and dry them appropriately.
  • Preserve them in the coconut mixture.
  • Put the prawns individually on a banana leaf.
  • Spread the chopped chilli on the prawns and cover it with another leaf.
  • Now put the whole item in a pressure cooker and cook for about twelve minutes.
  • Prawns are ready to serve.