Smell the lemon - Lounge. Updated: Sat, Mar 01 2008. 04 42 PM IST As I wax lyrical every week about gourmet food and fancy foreign dishes, I realize how blind I have been to some extraordinary dishes in India itself. I have recently been travelling to Kolkata on work, and have rediscovered Bengali food. Bengali cuisine is considered elaborate and refined, and the state is the only place in India where food is served in separate courses, the chronology based on ancient beliefs, to aid the digestive process. Bitter leaves and gourd are always served first, followed by rice, dal, chutney and fish. Bengali food is one of the few Indian cuisines I can eat at any time of the day, even in restaurants. This simply isn’t so of other Indian cuisines, where the restaurant versions tend to be too spiced, laced with unnecessary amounts of oil, and generally overcooked.
There are also ingredients particular to this region, which are very special. Banerjee then steams the fish and serves it on a banana leaf. Serves four 1 tsp oil. Speciality Restaurants - Home. All India Site - Recipes Index. Ifood.tv | Global Food Network - Food Video Recipes Blog. Calypso.