Durga Puja Feast 2014 from Recipe Junction

  As you all know Durga puja is just 3 days away and this is the time we plan our menu for those festive days. I love cooking traditional Bengali dishes for my family, relatives and friends during these festive days. Here in this post I've compiled my earlier posted festive delicacies in one post, to give you some ideas what you can serve to your family and friends on festive days, as pre planning saves a lot of time. So I start with,

Appetizer/Snack :

1. Ghugni (dry yellow/white peas curry)
2. Beguni(Brinjal Fritters/pakora)
3. Baked Samosa ~ A famous street food of bengal
4.  Baked Nimki/namakpara/diamond cuts
5.  Stuffed Bread Pakora 

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Vegetarian Recipes : (includes rice, luchi and veg dishes)

1. Kumror Choka/chakka - A Pumpkin delight
2. Mochar Ghanto ~ A bengali delicacy of Banana Blossom
3. Doi Sorshe Phulkopi
4. Patoler Narkel Charchari(Stir fried parwal/pointed gourd with mustard & coconut paste)
5. Luchi r Phulkopi-Aloo Charchari
6. Bengali Khichuri aar Labra (a mix vegetable mishmash
7.  Bengali sweet pulao
8.  Karaishutir Kachori
9.  Luchi 
10. Dhokar Dalna (Lentil cakes in a light spicy gravy)

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Non-Vegetarian (includes fish, Chicken and Mutton dishes)

1.  Doi Maach (Rohu fish cooked with yogurt)
2. Chingri Macher Malaikari  (prawn cooked in coconut milk) 
3. Phulkopi-Chingrir Dalna (Shrimp and cauliflower in gravy)
5.  Sorshe Ilish(Hilsa fish in mustard paste gravy)
6.  Potoler Dorma(Stuffed parwal/pointed gourd in thick onion-tomato gravy)
6.  Chicken Chaap (A chicken speciality of Bengal)
7.  Chicken Rezala ~ Bengal's Favorite
8.  Dak Bunglow Chicken Curry and Dak Bunglow Chicken fry  
9.  Kasha Mangsho(slow-cooked mutton bengali way) 
10. Chicken Jal Fraizy (A beloved Chicken dish of Kolkata - Originates in Bengal)
11. Restaurant Style Chicken Biriyani 
12. Mouri Mangsho(Fennel seed flavoured chicken curry)

 

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Dessert 

1. Patishapta Pitha(pancake stuffed with coconut filling)
2. Gurer Payesh (Rice kheer with palm jaggery)
3. Rasmalai (Rasgulla in thick milk sauce)
4. Narkel Naru/soft coconut Laddoo (coconut laddoo)
5. Aam Kheer (Mango in thickened milk)
6. Narkel Totki/Coconut Sandesh/Chandrapuli
9. Phirni (Thickened rice-nut pudding)
10. Kalakand (sweet made with Indian cottage cheese)
11. Dudh Puli Pithe(A speciality made during Makar Sankranti) 
12. Semiya Kheer Khejur er gur diye(vermicelli kheer with palm jaggery) 
13. Aam Doi(baked Mango Yoghurt) 
14. Carrot Burfi (Gajorer Burfi)
15. Gajar ka halwa(Carrot Pudding) in microwave

  
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Chutneys : 

1. Tomato O kacha aamer chutney(tomato & green mango chutney)
2. Anarasher Chutney (Sweet & Sour Pineapple chutney)
3. Tomato-Apple Chutney
4. Green Mango Chutney (kacha aamer chutney)
5. Chaltar Ambol (Sweet & Sour elephant apple chutney)