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Indian vegetable markets and grocery stores get their wholesale supplies from suppliers belonging to various regions/ethnicities from all over India and elsewhere, and the food suppliers/packagers mostly use sub-ethnic, region-specific item/ingredient names on the respective signs/labels used to identify specific vegetables, fruits, grains and ...
This is a list of plants that have a culinary role as vegetables. "Vegetable" can be used in several senses, including culinary, botanical and legal. This list includes botanical fruits such as pumpkins, and does not include herbs, spices, cereals and most culinary fruits and culinary nuts. Edible fungi are not included in this list.
Shukto (Bengali: শুক্তো) is a popular vegetable dish in Bengali cuisine usually served with rice in the West Bengal state of India and in the neighbouring country Bangladesh. [1] It has slightly bitter taste and is especially served in the banquets of Bengali social ceremonies like Annaprasana , Sraddhya or Bengali Wedding as a part ...
Name Image Description Aloo Bhorta: Made of mashed potato and dried chilies and onions Begun Bhorta: Dish made of mashed aubergine - similarities with Baba ghanoush: Lau Chingri: Spicy curry made with calabash and shrimp Lal Shak bhaja: A stir fry-like dish made with Red Amaranth Aam er achar: Pickle made from green mango: Ruti
Beef dishes are popular with Bengali Muslims and often served at Mezban feasts, where they indicate prosperity. [27] [28] [26] Hindus tend to cook with fish rather than beef. The Hindu community of Chittagong organises Mezban feasts each year as "Chittagong Parishad", with curries of fish and vegetables. [26]
During Ranna Puja, panta bhat is offered to Manasa the snake goddess along with fried vegetables, yellow pigeon peas cooked with elephant apples, curried ash gourd and fried Hilsa. [32] On the Vijayadashami day of Durga Puja , panta bhat is offered to Durga along with soup of grass pea , fried taro leaves, machher jhol of blue perch and chutney ...
It is also called pitha (Bengali: পিঠা; piṭha). While some pitha can be made at any time of the year in Bengal ( Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal ), there are special pitha strongly associated with harvest festivals such as Nabanna ( Bengali : নবান্ন nôbanno , literally "new rice" or "new food") and the ...
The name "winter melon" that is sometimes given to this plant is based on the Chinese name dōngguā (冬瓜); however, the character 瓜 (guā) can also mean "gourd" or "squash". [11] It is likely that the name "melon" is given because this gourd is sometimes candied or made into a sweet tea.