The Instant Death Mutton Roast

Method:

1. Marinate the mutton in onion, ginger, garlic and green chili paste. Also add Karakoram spice and Kashmiri red chili powder, salt and mustard oil. Marinate overnight.
2. In a wok, heat mustard oil (or other cooking oil) add curry leaves and fry the mutton on low heat for 2-3 hours or until the meat falls of the bones.

Chili pork with Bhoot Jolokia

Method:

1. Marinate the pork overnight with dark soy sauce.
2. In a wok heat oil, fry cubed onions,  a star anise ( to counter the smell of pork, you can discard later) and 2-3 dry Bhoot Jolokia / Naga pepppers (adjust heat according to the sample you have). Keep aside,
3. In the flavored oil,  add methi seeds to splutter and fry the marinated pork. Add crushed garlic and later thing sliced ginger. You may also add whole dry red chilies at this point.
4. Cook till done, serve with steamed rice.

Murighonto with Salmon Head / স্যামন মাছের মাথা দিয়ে মুড়িঘন্ট

Ingredients
Gobindobhog/kaalo jeere (short-grain rice you can get in Bangladeshi or Indian stores)
Fish head ( we are using Salmon in this recipe, usually a fresh rui/ katla/ crap head is preferred.)
Cubed potatoes- 2 small or 1medium
Ginger garlic paste- about 1 tbsp
Bengali Garma Masala (clove, cardamom and cinnamon ground in equal parts)

Method:

1. Soak Gobindobhog/kaalo jeere rice in a bowl. 
2. Wash and clean the salmon head. Cut into 4 pieces. Rub salt and turmeric. Fry in mustard oil. Set aside. 
3. In the same oil used to fry the fish head, fry cubed potatoes. Add cumin seeds and bay leaves.
4. Add the pre-soaked rice after straining the water. Cook on medium while stirring continuously. Add ginger-garlic paste. Keep stirring.
5. Add back the fried fish head and slit green chilies. Add boiling hot water in batches til the rice is fully cooked.
6. Serve hot after sprinkling a little garam masala.

Savory Overnight Oats

Soak rolled oats or steel cut oats overnight in yogurt, water, salt, and pepper.

In the morning, heat 1 tsp oil in a wok and add diced onions, cumin seeds, broken red chilies, and curry leaves. Add the oats and stir. Serve with pickles of your choice or eat as it is.

Banana halwa

2 ripe bananas
Raw Sugar to taste
Milk powder
2 Tbsp ghee (preferably homemade)

Method:
Mix everything except the ghee together and cook the mashed bananas in a low flame by stirring continuously. You may also use cardamom or cinnamon powder to enhance the flavor. You may also try a variation with jaggery instead of using sugar.

Okra with dry fish/ ঢেঁড়স দিয়ে শুটকির ঝোল

Method:
Pressure cook washed whole okra with garlic, onions, green chilies, dry fish (preferably chepa/shidol).
Give it a good stir before you serve. You can make a similar jhol/broth using green beans and potatoes.

If you don't eat dry fish, try the recipe with fish bones/ fish head or simply red lentils.

Making salted hilsa/nona ilish with potatoes and eggplant