This ‘Bengali’ rice and lentil preparation, cooked with vegetables, is popular in Bengal when it rains.
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Crispy fried hilsa fish is deliciously tossed with spices and is a perfect complement to steaming hot rice during the monsoon.
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The tender and juicy slices of eggplant are coated with spices and then deep-fried until crisp, perfect for rainy-day munching.
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Small fish deep-fried with plain chopped onion and spices. These are crunchy and take the curtain off the rainy weather.
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Boiled sliced potatoes, spiced and fried to form crunchy balls on the outside but soft on the inside, are ideal for tea while watching the rain.
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Succulent Hilsa fish prepared from yoghurt gravy perfectly fuses a spicy and sour dish for monsoon meals.
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Gram flour onion fritters; these crispy veggies are necessarily accompanied by tea during the rainy season.
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