Our project leader, M, organised a dinner after Day 2 of our
workshop (we’d earned it!). Apparently it’s
hard to get good food in Rajshahi: M had hired a cook for our lunches and for
this dinner, and the food was (as always) spectacular!
We started with chicken wontons and a pink Thai soup – the colour
was unlike any other soup I’d had, and it tasted delicious.
Bangla wontons
Thai soup – pinker than in this picture
Our main course was a buffet with mutton pakoras, chilli shrimp,
mutton curry, fried chicken, mixed vegetables, cucumber and carrot slices, and rice. There was a new-to-me bread, roti-naan, which
was very light, and bright yellow – it’s coloured with egg yolk.
Loading our plates
Feast on a plate!!
There were also two different types of sweetmeats – one more
liquid and one made with more evaporated milk.
I think both are made on similar lines as curd – milk is heated,
separated with lemon juice, sweetened and then set.
Our third sweet was deep fried dough swirls drenched in hot sugar
syrup immediately after cooking – they’re deceptively light and taste like fried
honey. mmmmmm
Post feast leftovers: sweets in the foreground
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