Recipes for a Boisabi celebration
'Boi-Sa-Bi' is a combination of the Bengali acronyms for various indigenous festivals like Boisu of the Tripura, Sangrai of the Marma, and Bizu of the Chakma communities. It is a three-day long festival, celebrated between 12 and 14 April. Here are a few flavourful recipes of traditional and non-traditional dishes that every host can try on the occasion of Boisabi.
1y ago
Recipes for a classic Chakma lunch platter
A typical Chakma luncheon is simple but nutritious. Traditionally, from blanched boiled vegetable dishes to herbed less-oily fish, and meat served with a plate of jhum cultivated steamed rice, the food choice of indigenous people of Chittagong Hill Tracts changes every season. We have more than a hundred varieties of seasonal vegetables and fruits that grow around the year all over the hills. From sweet fruits to sour veggies and bitter herbs to spicy chillies, all of the distinctive flavours of the different ingredients are found on our lunch platter.
1y ago
Delicious desserts from around the world
Dessert consists of variations of tastes, textures, and appearances. There are a wide variety such as cakes, cookies, biscuits, gelatins, pastries, ice-creams, pies, puddings and candies. Fruit is also commonly found in dessert courses as of its natural sweetness. Many different cultures have their own variations of similar desserts around the world as in modern times, the variations of desserts have usually been passed down or come from geographical regions. Here’s a list of some lip-smacking desserts recipes from around the world that everyone must try once in their lifetime.
1y ago
Fabulous fish recipes for your table
Fish recipes are key to getting fresh, delicious meals on the table quickly and easily. There are many ways to cook fish — grilled, baked, fried or stewed. This list of fish recipes is simple and easy to make with full of global flavours will delight fish lovers and definitely improve the dinner table game.
1y ago
Dried Fish Delicacy in Hilly Cuisine
Dried fish is one of the key ingredients of most recipes in hilly cuisine, and their popularity is on par with any other meat dish.
1y ago
Recipes with matcha tea powder
With its potent nutritional properties, matcha can calm the mind, enhance one’s mood and lower cholesterol.
2y ago
Cooking one pot meals
One-pot is a simple cooking method that easily combines all of a dish’s essential ingredients in one pot while cooking.
2y ago
Piping hot tea chilly winter days
A freshly brewed cup of tea not only gives warmth to our body but also benefits in several other ways, especially in winter.
2y ago
June 15, 2021
Mango mania
Mango crepe is a pancake using fresh mango purée topped with fluffy whipped cream and mango chunks, wrapped with a thin, moist crepe. A pillow-shaped creamy dessert to die for.
April 13, 2021
Bizu festival in the hills
One of the most important socio-religious festival celebrated by the Chakma community in the Chattogram hill tracts, Bizu begins at the stroke of midnight on 11 April, by collecting flowers from the neighbourhood.
April 13, 2021
Feast of the Bizu festival
‘Bizu’ is not only the biggest traditional festival bidding farewell to the year (Chaitra Sankranti) and ushering the Bengali New Year, but also a festival of feast, which carries much significance to the Chakma community.
March 16, 2021
Baking art therapy
It is said that baking is about more than just creating something sweet to eat, and has many psychological benefits. It is a productive form of self-expression and communication. And People who bake use any excuse to heat up their ovens.
March 2, 2021
Hearty soups and stews
A bowl of soup warms us right up from within, giving us a core warmth that is sure to spread to every part of the body. Since soups, stews or broths are mostly liquid, they are a great way to stay hydrated and full.
February 16, 2021
Flavours from the hills
Cuisine is an important part of Chakma lifestyle. Like their distinctive culture, the unique style of cooking, and techniques using natural ingredients makes their cuisine distinguishably flavourful. From meat to poultry, wild vegetables, roots, and stems are prepared and consumed in different ways.
December 8, 2020
FUSION FLAVOURS
Seafood recipes: delicious ‘meatless day’ surprises
November 10, 2020
Desserts for those special occasions
Sweets can be part of a healthy, lifelong eating pattern as long as they are consumed in moderation.
October 13, 2020
Healthy mushrooms recipes
Hebaang is a traditional process of burnt-baking in mud-stove or steaming marinated meat/fish/egg/vegetable, wrapped with only banana leaf in ‘Chakma-Cuisine,’ from the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
September 22, 2020
Rice delicacies from across the globe
Rice is a staple food for over half the world’s population. Different countries consume it differently and each country has made the grain their own, with original recipes and distinct spices.
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