Bidishar Henshel

Ingredients : Ilish (Hilsa fish) 6 pieces (washed and mixed with salt and turmeric powder) Yellow mustard seeds (3 tbsps) Poppy seeds (1 tbsp) Turmeric powder (1/2 tsp) Salt as per taste Green chillies as per taste Procedure : Make a paste of all the spices.Add the Hilsa fish pieces, turmeric powder and salt. Put the mixture in a tight tiffin box.Boil water in a boiler, place the tiffin box in the boiler and cover the boiler. Cook it in low flame for 15 mins. Bhapa Ilish is ready to be served with steamed rice.

Ingredients : 1 litre milk (full cream or toned) 1 cup flour potatoes (2 medium sized) ginger paste (1 tbsp) cumin powder (1 tsp) garam masala powder (1 tsp) turmeric powder (1 tsp) salt as per taste sugar as per taste vinegar (2 tsp)  green chilly paste mustard oil Procedure : Boil milk and pour vinegar into it and turn off the heat. Cover the milk. After few minutes you will see the chhena or cottage cheese and whey. Strain the cottage cheese from the whey and make sure that the whey is fully drained out from the chhena. Mix the flour with the chhena and add some sugar, salt and chilly paste into it. Make the dough, divide it into parts and deep fry them in oil. Make sure that the mixture is not too soft. Otherwise you won't be able to fry them. Now fry the chopped potatoes. Add all the spices and make the gravy. Now put the fried chhena balls into the gravy and let it cook in low flame for 5 minutes. Once it's cooked sprinkle garam masala on top and serve it hot with roti or

Ingredients : Prawns (250 gms) mustard seeds (3 tbsp) poppy seeds (1 tbsp) coconut paste or powder(4 tbsp) mustard oil (3 tbsp) green chilly paste (as per taste) salt (as per taste) Procedure : Mix all the ingredients together. Put it into a metallic tiffin box and close the lid of the tiffin box. Boil water in a boiler and place the tiffin box into the boiling water. Close the lid of the boiler and cook it in low flame for 15 min. Serve Bhapa Chingri hot with rice or pulao.

Ingredients : Prawn pieces (200 grams) onion paste (1 medium sized) ginger paste (1 tbsp) coconut paste or powder (4 tbsp) turmeric powder (1 tsp) red chilly powder (as per taste) salt (as per taste) sugar mustard oil 1 Bay leaf garam masala powder (1/2 tsp)  Procedure : Fry the prawn pieces and keep it aside. Now heat oil in a kadhai and put the bay leaf and fry the  onion and ginger paste till oil separates. Now add the chilly powder and turmeric powder and stir. Then add the coconut and stir. Then add water, salt and sugar. Now add the fried prawn pieces and cover the kadhai and let it cook for five more minutes in low flame. Once it's cooked turn off the heat and add the garam masala powder and keep it covered for sometime. Serve it hot with rice or pulao.

Ingredients : Basmati rice (2 cups) Ghee (2 tbsp) Turmeric powder (1 tbsp) Salt as per taste Sugar (should be double the amount of salt) For example, if you are using 1tsp salt, put 2 tsp sugar garam masala powder (1 tsp) cashew nuts and raisins Procedure : Heat ghee in a kadhai. Fry the rice. Put the turmeric powder and stir. Now add water in the kadhai. Amount of water should be double the amount of rice. Now add salt, sugar, garam masala, cashew nuts and raisins and stir. Now cover the kadhai and let it cook in low flame till the water dries out and the rice is cooked. Now basanti pulao is ready to be served.

Ingredients : 1 cup Besan (gram flour) 1 cup sooji (rawa) 2 cups dahi (yogurt) 1 sachet fruit salt ginger paste (1/2 tsp) green chilly paste (1/2 tsp) sugar (1 tsp) salt (1/2 tsp) water to mix the ingredients mustard oil whole mustard seeds whole green chillies slit into 2 parts Procedure : Mix all the ingredients properly with dahi (curd) apart from fruit salt and water. Keep adding small portions of water as required. The mixture should not be very watery or very dry. It should be moderate. There should not be any lumps. When the mixture is ready add the fruit salt for fermentation. We have used microwave oven to cook the dhokla. If you don't have a microwave you can cook it in a normal gas oven. Grease a microwave safe bowl or a normal aluminium dish with mustard oil. If you are using a microwave oven it's better if you use a silicon bowl. It will not stick to the bottom. Now pour the mixture into the bowl and place it into the microwave to cook for 5 minutes. If you are coo