Sour Eggplant fry(বেগুনের টক ভাজি)

রেসিপিটি বাংলায় দেখতে এইখানে ক্লিক করুন।

Ingredients:

1. Eggplant- 200gm
2. Apple cider vinegar/white vinegar- 2ts
3. Soy sauce- 2 ts
4. Brown Sugar - 2 ts
5. Whole red chili- 4 piece
6. Onion (chopped)-1/4 cup
7. Garlic (chopped)- 1 Tbs
8. Black pepper- 1/2 ts (optional)
9. Salt -1/2 ts or to taste
10. Oil- 5 Tbs

Procedure:

1. Wash the eggplant and cut it into cube size pieces.

2. Take Vinegar, soy sauce,Sugar, black pepper and Salt in a bowl and mix it well, and set it aside.

3. Heat 3 Tbs oil in a pan in a medium heat and fry the eggplant until it become little soft and then remove it on a plate.

4. Then heat the rest of the oil. Put the whole red chili (if you want it hot you can break the hole chili into small pieces) into the oil and fry them 5 seconds. Then put the garlic and onion in the oil and fry them until they become soft.
5. When onion turns to soft put the eggplant in it and pour the mixture of bowl on the eggplant and mix them well. Then cover the pan, lower the heat and cooked it in a low heat for around 8-10 minutes or until the eggplant become completely cooked.
6. Then turn off the heat and serve your fry with plain rice or pulao.  

Courtesy:  
Ishita Rahman
(Columbia, SC, USA) 
 

Egg Pitha (ডিমের পানতোয়া পিঠা)

রেসিপিটি বাংলায় দেখতে এইখানে ক্লিক করুন।

Ingredients:

1. Egg-2
2. Flour-2 cup
3. Sugar-2 and 1/2 Tbs
4. Water-1 and 3/4 cup
5. Salt-1/4 ts
6. Oil-1 Tbs for egg fry + deep frying

Procedure:

1. Mix flour,sugar and salt. Add water and mix well. Keep the batter aside.
2. Heat 1 tbs oil in a pan in medium heat and make egg fry(ডিম পোঁচ).
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Heat Oil in a pan in medium heat for deep fry. Dip fried egg in the batter and put in the heated oil. Fry both side until golden brown.
4. Remove it from oil to a paper towel to remove extra oil. Again dip it in the batter and fry it. Repeat this process for 4-5 times.
   
   
   
   
   
   
    
5. Cut with a knife  and serve.

Bottle Gourd With Milk (দুধ লাউ)

রেসিপিটি বাংলায় দেখতে এইখানে ক্লিক করুন।

Ingredients:

1. Bottle gourd(লাউ)-2 cup (grated)
2. Milk-2 liter
3. Sugar-1 cup or your choice
4. Cardamom powder-1/4 ts
5. Ghee-2 Tbs
6. Almond/pecan-3 Tbs chopped(for garnish)

Procedure:

1. Peel and wash bottle gourd. Grate and keep aside.
   
   
    
2. Add 5-6 cup water in a deep pan. Bring it to boil. Add grated bottle gourd. Boil it around 7-8 minutes in medium heat.
3. Remove from the pan and drain water properly.
   
   
4. Heat ghee in a pan. Add bottle gourd and fry around 10 minutes. Remove from the pan and set aside.
5. Heat milk in a heavy bottom pan. Bring boil and then turn the heat in medium.
6. Cook until it become almost half. Stir occasionally to prevent burn bottom of the pan.
7. Add sugar and cook around another 10 minutes. Add cardamom powder and stir.
8. Add fried bottle gourd and cook around 10-15 minutes in medium heat.
9. Remove from the pan and garnish with chopped almond or pecan.
10. Allow it to cool and serve. 

Pakan pitha(পাকান পিঠা)

রেসিপিটি বাংলায় দেখতে এইখানে ক্লিক করুন।

Ingredients: Ripe banana- 1 Rice flour-1 cup Flour- 1/4 cup Sugar-5 Tbs or your choice Baking powder-1/2 ts salt-1/8 ts Water- around 2/3 cup Oil- for deep fry

Procedure:

1.  Peel the banana and mashed it smoothly.
2. Take rice flour, flour, sugar, salt, baking powder in a bowl and mix them well to distribute all things evenly.
3. Now take the mashed banana in a mixing bowl, add the dry ingredients small amount at a time and knead them. Add water slowly and make it like a dough consistency. Knead the dough well to make it smooth and lump free. Then keep the dough to rest for about half an hour or more.

4. Divide the dough to small balls. Brush little oil on a plate, take a ball and press it on the plate to make it around 1/2 cm oval shaped disk(like shown in the picture).

5. Heat oil in a medium high heat. When oil is heated enough put one pitha into the oil. If oil is heated perfectly then pitha will remain in the bottom for few seconds and then puffs up. When it puffs up flip the side and fry few seconds and then take out on a paper towel to soak the excess oil.(don't fry pitha too much, otherwise it will become hard)

6. Fry all the rest of pitha in the same process and serve hot. 

*** When pitha become cool it may be seems little hard to eat. At that time boil some water in a pan, put a steamer on the pan and place your pitha on it and cover it. Steam your pitha around 5-8 minutes and then take out and enjoy.

Basbousa

রেসিপিটি বাংলায় দেখতে এইখানে ক্লিক করুন।

Ingredients:

For cake: Semolina/Shuji- 2 cup Sugar- 1/2 cup or to your taste Baking powder-2 ts Dessicated coconut(shredded)- 1 cup Egg-2 Milk/Yogurt- 1 cup Nutmeg powder- 1/4 ts Cardamom powder- 1/4 ts Butter/Ghee- 3/4 cup Almond (whole or cut in half)- 14-15 pieces Butter/ghee/oil- 1/2 Tbs (to brush the baking pan)

For syrup: Sugar-2 cup Water- 2 cup Lemon juice- 1/4 ts Honey- 1 ts (optional)

Procedure:

1. Melt the butter in a mixing bowl, then add milk/yogurt, sugar, and mix them well. Beat the egg in another bowl and then add it in the butter mixture and beat them well.
2. Take semolina, baking powder, nutmeg powder and cardamom powder in a separate dry bowl and mix them to distribute baking powder evenly with semolina.
3. Then add the dry mixture in the liquid mixture and mix them to make a smooth batter.

4. Now brush the baking pan with oil/ghee and pour the batter on it and smooth the top with a spoon. Then keep that in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours to set up.
5. In the mean time, take sugar, water and lemon juice in a pan; and bring it to a boil. Then add the honey in the syrup and let it simmer in medium heat for around 10 minutes. Then turn off the heat and keep it aside to cool down.

6. Take out basbusa from the refrigerator and score it into desired shapes. Place the almonds on top of each square or diamond shape.
7. Preheat the oven at 350°F/170°C, put the baking tray into the oven and bake it for around 40 minutes. It will be better to start checking your cake after 25-30 minutes.
8. Carefully take out the cake from the oven and pour the syrup on the top of the cake and then bake it for another 15 minutes.
9. Then cut again along the score lines and let it cool completely before serving.