15 Mouthwatering Bhorta Recipes 

Musturd oil is the key point as well as game changer of any bhorta

Follow her simple recipe. It works every time. Bhortas are actually a staple of Bengali cuisine. You’d hear all about big complex dishes like biriyani, ilish, meat and chicken curry but this is what we Bengalis grew up eating. There’s a bhorta almost everyday. It’s also a great way to make your children love vegetables.

Traditional farming is not done like that. I think it’s the Western way of farming. We also have animal farming in Indian subcontinent but it’s much more humane. We don’t use artificial insemination, the cows are allowed to mate and wean their calves. The rest of the milk is of course harvested for human consumption. In the villages when people used to have their own animals, they’d use the bulls for ploughing the land and the cows will be taken to graze every once in a while. Of course some cows will be sold for meat but the butchering process isn’t also brutal like hitting in the head with hammer or suffocating like it is done in Western commercial meat industry. It’s almost like the cows and the calves and the bulls were part of the farmers family and they were raised with love and care. But of course farming has changed now. There are many cows that are cooped up in one place and they are not allowed too much movement. But still thank God we don’t have things like force feeding and artificial insemination and taking the calves away from the mother etc. these are brutal. I am not vegetarian, majority of Muslims are not. We also have a ritual where you have to sacrifice an animal as part of our faith. But we are taught to treat animals with kindness. Even while slaughtering them. We do eat them and that’s the cycle of life but no excuse to be cruel to them.

No it tastes good 😊

It tastes really good with plain rice.

Also it’s great for preventing cold and flu.

I'm going to try it soon.❤

You can also use ghee. Goes really well with Alu bhorta.

Wow!

Oigulo sabai jane bole dhore neowa hoyeche. Egulo dekhte bose mone hocche ekhni kayekta banie feli

That is Nigella seed also called as Kalo/Kali Jeera in bengali

Black cumin

It's black cumin, but Nigella seeds are close cousin

yes,this is nigella seed

Nigella seeds are kalijeera Black cumin is Shahi Jeera

The famous fish I mean hilsha is rare to find outside of Bangladesh. I don’t think these people lives in Bangladesh, rather a Bangladeshi immigrant to a western country may be. So it’s understandable why they skipped ilish vorta which is the trademark of Bangladeshi cuisine.

@@aap9490actually ilish is more expensive in Bangladesh now compared to outside of the country. We get Padma’s ilish for 30 usd here in the US. Comparing the average income of Bangladeshis and immigrant Americans, the price is really good here. In Bangladesh you could hardly get that ilish for the same amount. Now on top of that take in account that eating a 3000 take ilish is almost impossible for majority of Bangladeshis at home.

@@AkhtarM28 Yeah that you are right. I have been living in the US for the last 2 years for studies and the news I get from home and my dad, clearly the Bangladeshi syndicate and Hasina's oppressive policies and ilish politics with India has made it impossible for the common people of BD to get quality illish within an afforable price!

Eat directly

Without garlic, you can't make bhorta. Garlic, onions and mustard oil are a must

​@@AR-bf7tm No. garlic onions are not must. Mustard oil is required. One can make according to his/her taste bud,liking & food choices. My parents never used this thing in any vorta but that too is delicious.

@hemloc.k depends on family to family & region to region.

Hindu bengalis not always eat garlic and onion, they have more simpler flavour specially for niramish food.

@@icecreams214 very very true

Bosch has an excellent one

Really good. Big fan of the peanut vorta. We also make vorta with pumpkin peel and seeds(2 different vortas) . Both are my favourites

Banana peel vorta tastes good. I have made it several times but without shrimp.

oh yes, i tried and it was equally amazing...but some how I prefer mustard oil for bhortas..

Oh ghee is awesome with alu bhorta, don’t think it’ll go well with dal bhorta though… gotta try.

She could crush somebody’s hearts too lol

Coriander is traditional. You can use another herb like basil or parsley or even leave it out altogether but it won't have the same taste.

You can skip it, it's an optional, Or try adding lemon juice for some flavour.

You can skip it if you don’t like it. Many people don’t. You can also skip garlic with most of the recipes. They go well with black seed bhorta and your fish/shrimp bhortas but won’t taste well with the others. It’s more about tradition. Where I’m from, we don’t add garlic to vegetable bhortas.

Ghee ar green chilli try korun aloor or dal er sathe

Eta mone hoy unar personal preference. Emnite Bangladesh e amra shobai vortay dhone pata use kori na. Jara pochondo kore tara kore. For example amader bashay kore na, cause my father can not stand the smell of cilantros.

It’s optional. I love dhonepata so does many Bangladeshis.

আপনার ভালো না লাগলে দিবেন না। কেউ জোর করে নাই

We Bangladeshis don’t have a vorta like that unless that is known by another name! Personally I have never heard of kharkol, don’t even know what that is! Lol Is there another commonly known name for it?

Bengaluru koi pelen? Lol Egulo to shob Bangladeshi recipe. Channel o Bangladeshi!