Bangladeshi Recipes

Kacchi biryani sealed under dum, hilsa cooked with mustard, and a rice culture that goes deeper than any other South Asian cuisine.

2 recipes

Four pieces of hilsa fish in bright yellow mustard sauce in a traditional Bengali steel bowl, garnished with slit green chillies and a drizzle of raw mustard oil

Bangladeshi seafood

Shorshe Ilish (Hilsa in Mustard Sauce): Bangladesh's National Dish

Hilsa fish steaks cooked in a pungent paste of ground black and yellow mustard seeds, green chillies, and mustard oil — the dish that defines Bangladeshi cuisine.

50 min Serves 4 medium

A large sealed clay pot of kacchi biryani being opened at the table, steam rising

Bangladeshi biryani

Kacchi Biryani (Dum Pukht Method)

Raw marinated mutton layered under parboiled basmati and slow-cooked sealed under dough — the most demanding and most rewarding biryani there is.

210 min Serves 6 hard

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