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CONTENTS : CUISINE
Last update : May 31, 1998 |
Bangladesh, land of poets and artists, is also known for its delicious food. Cooking is considered an art, and as a guest in a Bengali home, one never lacks for delicious foods. Bengali curries, pulaos, and sweets are loved the world over. Boiled rice is the staple diet of the Bangladeshi's. Mustard and soyabin oils are used as the cooking medium. Fish is a must for all meals. Hilsa, very testy but full of small bones, is ihe most popular of all fishes is available in the rainy season. Many types of fresh water fish are also available and widely used. In an average Bengali home, the main meal would consist of boiled rice served with some sort of fried vegetables. This forms the first course of the meal. It is followed by rice and soupy lentils (dal). The third course is rice which is eaten with fish curry or on special occations meat curry. For the most special occasions chicken curry is preferred. Very rich families also eat similarly, but eat more beef or mutton and chicken. Two types of sweets are favorite in Bangladesh - sweetened yoghurt and sweetmeats. Bengali sweets are well known all over the sub-continent and are very popular. They are mostly milk sweets such as sandesh, roshagulla, rosmalai, gulab jamun, chom chom, and kalo jam. The yoghurt is pink in color and very sweet like custard. Foreigners usually find these too sweet at first, but most people soon learn to enjoy them.
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