Bangladeshi Food Culture | Latest Bangladeshi Food Menu | Food of Bangladesh

Bangladeshi Food Culture | Latest Bangladeshi Food Menu | Food of Bangladesh

 

Bangladeshi food culture

Hey Guys, Today I am going to tell about Bangladeshi Food Culture. I am from  Bangladesh. I am going to share with you all kind of food of Bangladesh.Every country has its own tradition of foods & Bangladesh has also the same. In the sense of food habits, Bangladesh is influenced by the regional variations of her history & also influenced by India now-a- days. Being an outpost of Mughal Empire once, Bangladesh retains its heritage. Bangladesh is famous for rice production which has been the chief occupation of its people. Rice is  the main food of Bangladesh. The people of Bangladeh generally eat rice, not just a small quantity but a lot. We eat rice every day and at every meal with great testy and spicy curry of vegetables, fishes and meat.

You may think that you are not Bangladeshi. It is not easy to come to Bangladesh for having  Bangladeshi food.

You need not worried about it. Many of the restaurants framed in Brick Lane, London & etc  are actually Bangladeshi in origin. The same can be said for other called Indian restaurants throughout the world when Indian foods have much better branding.

 

Bangladeshi Food Recipies

                 Bangladeshi Food Recipies

Bangladesh is a paradise that you have already known. Plenty of fresh vegetables are available throughout the year and  Among them, winter vegetables are more popular because of their different preparations and taste.

The common vegetables from Bangladesh are Cauliflower, Cabbage, Tomato, Potato, Beans, reddish, Peas, Radish, Pumpkin, Eggplant, Drumstick, Bitter-ground, Arum and Arum-root, Bind-weed and many others. Most of the restaurants serve some kinds of vegetable everyday either fried or curry or even Bharta (cereals of various vegetables or fishes dry or fresh with spices).

Generally Bangladeshi take meal in three time a day called Breakfast around 8.30 am, Lunch around 1.30 pm and dinner around 10.30 pm. Besides, in the  evening they take snakes.

In the morning, a farmer or a worker starts his long day with a breakfast of Panta (plain boiled rice soaked overnight in water and slightly fermented). This watery rice mixed with salt and chilly, either green or fried dry ones but this is not just the only sort of breakfast (in a village). Muri (puffed rice) or Chira (flattened rice), or Khoi (popped rice) are other items of a traditional breakfast in most Bangladeshi homesboth the rural areas & city. These are taken with milk, yogurt, seasonal fruits or Gur (a crude form of country sugar) and etc.

Wheat based plain bread is another common item for breakfast. A large number of people of Bangladesh take baked bread and mixed vegetable including egg, fish various kind of meat, and a hot cup of tea at last of breakfast.

Lunch is the main dish for Bangladeshis. Almost all the Bangladeshis take plain rice in lunch with curry. Most of them take different kinds of vorta and Bhaji (saluted or fried vegetable with green or fried chilly and other spices) are very popular in Bangladesh. They also take various kinds of spicy illusive fishes with rice.it is called that Mase vate Bangali (i e the land of rich and fishes). Fish or meat Jhol (liquidated, may be with different kind of vegetables) with plenty of chopped spices and other ingredients Cooked in low heat and for long is typical and an exclusive dish of Bangladeshi people. Dal (pulse) is must in Bangladeshi tradition in lunch and dinner. Adding ground ginger, onion, cumin, and chili pepper pastes, this dish also included fennel seed, black cumin, methie and so on herbs makes the Bangladeshi people’s traditional meal greatly delicious.

Generally all Bangladeshis take same items of foods in dinner. Dudvat (milk and rice) is very common as the last item of dinner for children. This is eaten with seasonal fruits like mango, banana or jack fruit or just with Gur (One kind of  sugar).

Bangladesh Traditional Food

Bangladeshi-Traditional-Food

During the harvesting season breakfast and evening snakes consist of a great variety of Pithas (One kind of cake which made by rice) of different sizes and shapes, salted or sugary, fried, boiled, sun dried or cooked. The remarkable Pithas are Sandwish, chitoi, dhupi, Pati-Sapta, antasha, Vapa, pua, various Nakshi Pitha etc. Swandwish pitha (taler pitha) is prepared from a mixture of rice flour, gur and salt, fried in mustard oil etc. Chitai a paste of rice flour baked in especially designed clay pans and rice. It may be soaked for a day or two in evaporated milk with a shape. Pati Sapta is a variety of rolled pancakes with Kheer (prepared with milk thickened through continuous boiling) filling. During weddings the bridegroom is given Nakhsi Pithas-carved and decorated rice cakes, which are real tasty now a days.

In weeding or other social festival, Biriani (fine rice with chicken, beef or mutton cooked in Ghee or clarified butter), Pilaw (spicy like Biriani but without meat and others), with Chicken roast or mutton Rezala is served as main dish. Khichuri (Hotchpotch) is another popular item in Bangladeshi food. Different kind of pickle of mango, tomato, olive, gurlick etc are also taken much.

Various kinds of inland and marine fishes are available throughout the country. Fish lovers should not miss the great taste of smoked or boiled or fried Hilsa (ilisha), the national fish of Bangladesh. Trout, Eel, Butter fish, Ruhi, Katla, Mackerel, Pungas Catfish, Walking Fish, Giant snake head are very testy and common in Bangladesh. Among the marine fishes Lobster, Red Snapper, Rupchanda, Tuna, Bhetki, Loittya & etc are very popular.

Among the seasonal fruits the appeal of jack-fruit (the national fruit of Bangladesh) is universal for its sticky and juicy substance (very famous). You may take the taste of Fazli aam (a mango) for sophisticated experience. There are a number of varieties of mango each having an exotic name differing in taste, varying in sweetness and in flavours. The litchis of Rajshahi are juicy and colourful, pleasing both to eye and the tongue and many others. Pineapple is another treat. Lots of them are generally grown on the hilly area. The other remarkable fruits of Bangladesh are Guava, Plum, Palm, Water Melon, (kala) banana etc.

Most Famous Food in Bangladesh

Most Famous Food in Bangladesh

Singara:

Singara is spiced potato pockets wrapped in thin dough and fried. It is really tasty and inexpensive snack that you can find anywhere in Bangladesh.

 

Samosa:

Bangladeshi samosas tend to be triangular, filled with cabbage and other vegetables, and are very crispy very interesting.

Dallpuri:

Dallpuri is  a popular and common item as snakes contain dall(pulse) covered with specially prepared flour paste fried in hot oil. Sometime it contains potato in lieu of pulse.

Naan:

Naan (flat bread baked in a tan door oven) is a common item in almost all restaurants in Bangladesh. It may be contain (kala) banana or other fruits as paste.

Muglai Barata:

Muglai Barta (bread contains spicy egg or meat) is another popular item in evening snakes.

Tandori:

Tandori is (flat wheat paste baked in oven) in very popular and common item in breakfast.

Bakorkhani:

Bakorkhani  (wheat and sugar based) is a famous and traditional snack available in old Dhaka.

Fried roti stuffed with egg & onions:

 Once night hits in Khulna, many of the streetside restaurants were frying up a thin dough filled with egg, onions and spices. It was folded up like a square. More filling than it looks.

Roti Kalai: 

A thick flat bread made from lentil flour. When we found this on the streets of Rajshahi and Rangpur, women were serving it with freshly cut onions and green chili sauce. More like a meal than a snack since the lentil flour makes it heavy.

 

Chana chaat: 

Chickpeas mixed with chopped onions, tomatoes, and spices often topped with popped rice and fried vegetables.

Pitha: 

A fried snack  almost like small pancakes made from rice flour. Can either be eaten straight or covered with ghur (syrup made from the sap of date trees) for breakfast.

Drinks in Bangladesh

Tea:

The people of Bangladesh are generally drink tea. You’ll find little tea stands throughout the country with a few people sitting and drinking a cup, perhaps with some snacks and others. Tea drinking and tea stalls offer a great way to engage with and meet the common people of village. Most tea is black tea served with condensed milk and sugar, but you can also request red tea which is without milk.

7-Layer Tea:

 The famous 7-layer tea can only be found at Nilkhantha Tea Cabin outside of Srimongal (beware of imitations in the nearby village and city). The recipe is a secret, but combines three varieties of black tea and one green tea with others. Condensed milk and various spices (cinnamon, cloves), perhaps a dash of  lemon and a hint of asafoetida make up the other flavor layers (which is very interesting).

Lassi:

 It is a yogurt and ice based refreshing drink. It refreshes both body and soul when you are tired in travel or from the rice field.

 

Sugarcane juice:

You can find juice (very interesting) stands on the streets here and there, where fresh sugarcane thrashing and ready juice is served.

Lime and Date juice:

Sometime you may found natural Lime and date juice in street that is really exotic to taste with some food.

Green Coconut Water:

 It is also available in street and it is fine, safe and nutritious to drink. Per Green Coconut price is 50 TK.

Bangladesh Restaurant Eating

Western foods are available (you will find both city and village) in all major hotels and most of the renowned restaurants in import cities. But local dishes are normally far better and more exotic in Bangladesh.

In the capital city Dhaka, There are some famous and special menus which are greatly rich in taste, and only known to the food-lovers of the city of Dhaka. You should not miss the experience of the menus as much as I can guase. Among the items, a short list is Hazi Biriani located in Alauddin Road in old Dhaka.

Nanna’s Morog Polao located at nearby Tara Mosque in old Dhaka but now in many city of Bangladesh.

Ghoroa Restaurent’s Vuna Khichuri located at Motijheel, the business heart of Dhaka city.

Sunami Restora’s Kacchi Biriani located at Jhigatola Bus Stand at Dhanmondi. Jhunu’s Morog Polaw located nearby Narinda police box, Mukta Biriani- located at Goran Tempu stand.

 Chhayanir’ Grill Chicken Located in the Science Laboratory corner nearby new market etc.