Traditional Food of West Bengal - Mishti Pulao, Kosha Mangsho and What Else? Add These to Your Wedding Menu
Food is often one of the highlights of weddings, no matter how closely related one is to the couple! Make sure your guests enjoy themselves to the fullest by offering delicious traditional foods of West Bengal!
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If you want to keep the vibe of your Bengali wedding true to its core, you must have the traditional food of West Bengal at your wedding for sure. Even though fish items are the standouts when it comes to Bengali cuisine, many other dishes can match or even surpass them. Unfortunately, people who do not know about the richness of this cuisine often offer the same old dishes and go wrong with their pairings. This is exactly why you need to take extra care while including the best traditional foods of West Bengal to make sure that you give your guests a day to remember!
The following are some of the must-haves Bengali food names that you need to alert your caterers about!
1. Begun Bhaja
No matter how much you may love fish and non-veg food, one cannot deny the fact that the regular eggplant has taken up a special space in most Bong-hearts. Begun Bhaja is a dish that proves this. The dish is essentially composed of fried eggplants and is served as a starter in almost all Bengali weddings. You can make it in two ways - either dipped in besan and deep-fried or marinated with turmeric and salt and shallow fried. Both the formulae result in splendid tastes! Is your taste-bud tingling already?
2. Kosha Mangsho
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A Bengali wedding is not complete without one of the best dishes of all time, Kosha Mangsho, which is a traditional food of West Bengal. Kosha Mangsho is a delicious mutton curry made in a puree of tomato and onions with chunks of potatoes as well. You have to use curd or yoghurt as its base and add a pinch of mustard oil, once cooked, to add flavour to the dish. This one-dish attracts the maximum number of forks at a buffet and therefore is must-have at your Bengali wedding.
3. Mishti Pulao with Kalia Fish
Bengalis rock at two things when it comes to cooking - rice and fish. What’s better than having a plate of Kalia Fish along with the incredible Mishti Pulao? The large Rohu fish tastes insanely good when cooked after it has been marinated for an hour or two with rich Indian spices. Cooked with a base of onions, tomatoes and raisin with yoghurt, the dish offers one of the most unique flavours when it comes to Indian fish curries. You just need to pair it with Mishti Pulao to take you to cloud 9 and keep you there forever. You cannot have a more traditional food of West Bengal than this combo of Mishti Pulao and Kalia FIsh.
4. Prawn Malai Curry
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Prawn Malai Curry is one of those dishes that leave you wanting for more, even after having a giant bowl of it. The curry offers a perfect mix of spicy and sweet flavour and the prawns are as succulent as they can get. The use of coconut milk as its base makes it so soft that you can shred the flesh of the prawns with your fingers. Now, is that mouth-watering or what! The prawns brought in from the popular local fish markets of Bengal makes it an old traditional food of West Bengal that you must include in your menu by all means.
5. Mishti Dhoi
No other state can match the wide variety of sweet dishes at belonging to the traditional food of West Bengal. Mishti Dhoi is the favourite and the most popular of them all. It is the perfect example of the long-lasting relationship of Bengalis with their sweet dishes. Mishti Dhoi is made with molasses blended in creamy milk with a thick mass of unsweetened yoghurt to increase the consistency of the dish. Make sure you have it at your wedding to create the true vibe of a Bengali wedding in India.
6. Roshogolla
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Roshogolla is another legendary sweet dish that everyone in India has heard about. When you think of the traditional food of West Bengal, the first thing that probably comes in your mind is a Roshogolla. It is not just a major attraction at a Bengali wedding - people visit Kolkata at times just to have a bite of this popular sweet dish. It is a dumpling of chenna, fried and dipped in sugar syrup. Having it at your wedding will surely leave your guests spellbound at the end of the buffet.
Bonus food: Shingara, Desi Biryani, Fish Paturi and Sandesh!
If you have guests at your wedding from around the country, more than half of them look forward to the food they would get at the wedding, making it all the more important for you to come up with great Bengali food menu including the traditional food of West Bengal.
Get in touch with our wedding caterers who can help you provide a great menu at your wedding!
