Bihar Delicacies

Anwala ka murabba (Gooseberry murabba)

Servings: 4-5 Soaking time: 2-3 days. Preparation time: 10 minutes. Boiling time: 5 minutes. Layering time: 1 day Cooking time: 15 minutes. Total time: 30 minutes. Growing up in small town of Bihar at Barh; I remember grand-parents pricked the gooseberry and prepared ‘Gooseberry murabba’, and used to be busy for this work about 5-6 […]

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Murauri (radish poori)

Servings: 4 Preparation time: 10 minutes. Making dough time: 5 minutes. Frying time: 10-12 minutes. Total time: 27 minutes. There is a saying that spicy food leads longer life; chilli pepper is used to spice up food in most of Asian countries, Africa and Latin America and it entered the Indian cuisine in the 16th

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Karela aaloo ka bhujia (bitter gourd and potato fry)) (Bengali style)

Servings: 4 Preparation time: 5-6 minutes. Cooking time: 18-20 minutes. Total time: 26 minutes. The flavour of today, bitter gourd is the taste infused with panch phoran. Panch phoran is adorn in every Bengali kitchen; panch phoran is a signature blend of five spices (Mustard seed, fennel seed, cumin seed, Kalonji and fenugreek seed), relish

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Kuttu (buckwheat) ka pakoda (phalahari fritters)

Servings: 4-5 Preparation time: 10 minutes. Frying time: 5-6 minutes(each batch). Total time: 16 minutes. Kuttu gives me the feeling and aura of auspiciousness, as it is mostly used on the fasting days of Navratri in north India. The recipe ‘Kuttu (buckwheat) ka pakoda (phalahari fritters)’ is prepared with rock salt and mostly served on

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