Dim kasha (Bengali style egg curry)

🟡 Egg

Ingredients:

Eggs - 4 pc 🥚

Potato - 4 pc 🥔

Onion - 1 medium 🧅

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp

Tomato - 1 whole 🍅

Turmeric powder - ½ tsp

Red chilli powder - ½ tsp

Salt - qs

Sugar - ½ tsp

Cooking oil - qs

Bay leaf - 1 pc

Water - ½ cup

Steps : 

1. In a pressure cooker boil the eggs and potatoes for faster cooking

2. Thinly slice the onions and keep aside 

3. Once the eggs and potatoes are cooked, peel them

4. In a deep bottom pan, heat oil. Fry the boiled eggs and potatoes until golden. Set aside.

5. In the remaining oil put in the bay leaf, the onions, add ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, chilli powder and sugar. Sautee well. 

6. Add salt and put in the chopped tomatoes. 

7. Sprinkle some water and cover it. Simmer and let it cook. 

8. Once the tomatoes melt, add in the fried eggs and potatoes. Mix gently. 

9. Add the water and let it boil to a thick consistency. 

10. Once the colour pops, it's done! 

Best when served with warm rice, roti or paratha. 🍲

Sheem bori alu jhol (Bengali style veg green curry - winter special)

🟢 Veg

Ingredients:

Potato - 2 whole 🥔

Sheem (broad beans) - 200g

Bori - 10 pcs

Corriander leaves - ½ cup 🌿

Green chilli - 2 pcs

Jeera powder - 1 tbsp

Jeera whole - 1 tsp

Turmeric powder - ½ tsp

Salt - qs

Cooking oil - qs🛢️

Water - 1 cup

Steps:

1. In a deep bottom pan, heat oil. Put in diced beans and potatoes. Cover and let cook. 

2. Once half cooked, put in whole jeera, jeera powder, turmeric powder and green chilli. Sautee well. 

3. Once well sauteed, put in salt and the cup of water. Cover and keep on sim. Let it cook. 

4. In another pan heat some oil and put in the bori. Fry on medium flame. Be careful not to burn them. 

5. Once fried, put them out and drop them in the stew that's getting cooked. Cover again. 

6. Once the vegetables soften, spread the chopped corriander leaves on top. 

7. Serve warm with cooked rice.