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Steps: Wash the Afada rice well to remove stones and sand. Boil water, add rice and salt, and cook until soft. Drain if needed. In another pot, heat palm oil and fry onions, pepper mix, and seasoning. Add meat/fish and crayfish, then simmer into a thick stew. Serve hot stew over cooked Afada rice.
Juicy mutton pieces cooked in curry of hot spices. Kosha Mangsho is a famous Bengali mutton curry popular for its rich taste and spiciness. Its a heaven for spicy food lovers.
Mishti doi is a classic Bengali sweet made with milk, curd culture and jaggery or sugar. The jaggery used traditionally to make mishti doi is palm jaggery. In Bengali language mishti means sweet and doi is curd.
Puli pitha is a traditional bengali pithe or pitha and Makar Sankranti or poush sankranti(in Bengal) is the best time to make it at home. Bengali style Dudh puli means half-moon shaped stuffed rice cake or dumpling cooked in dudh or milk. In this bengali dudh puli recipe sweet coconut-jaggery stuffed rice cake or dumpling is cooked in jaggery mixed milk. But it’s not that common jaggery rather it’s a winter special bengali date palm jaggery knowns as nolen gur or notun khejur gur in bengali.
Being welcoming and extremely hospitable is a hallmark of Bangladeshi culture. Visitors and friends are always welcome to drop in, sometimes even unannounced. Open doors, sheer hospitality, and friendly disposition are an integral part of the society. Add tons of mouthwatering food shared by the guests and host with chic-chat, laughter, love, and you have a complete picture of sociable Bangladeshis.
Biryani is one of the most popular dishes in South Asia, as well as among the diaspora from the region. Similar dishes are also prepared in other parts of the world such as in Iraq, Thailand, and Malaysia. Biryani is the single most-ordered dish on Indian online food ordering and delivery services.
