Chattogram (Chittagong) Street Food

5 dishes in Bangladesh

5 street foods from Chattogram (Chittagong), Bangladesh: Mezbani Gosht, Kala Bhuna, Loitta Shutki Bhuna, Akhni Biryani and Cumilla Rasmalai. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

Street foods of Chattogram (Chittagong)

Communal Feast · Fiery Beef Curry Mezbani Gosht A proper mezban uses virtually every part of the cow — bone, fat, liver, and marrow all go into the pots — so almost nothing from the animal goes to… Mezbani gosht is a fiery, oil-rich beef curry simmered with a heavy hand of chili and spice, traditionally served with plain rice and a thick chana dal cooked with beef bones at massive… Blackened Beef · Slow-Fried Curry Kala Bhuna The dish gets its jet-black color from technique, not food coloring — beef shoulder is fried in mustard oil and a heavy spice blend for so long that… Beef is browned in mustard oil with a long list of whole and ground spices, then fried down slowly until the gravy reduces to a thick, near-black coating clinging to the meat. It began as… 🐟 Coastal Delicacy · Dried Fish Curry Loitta Shutki Bhuna Fresh loitta is so soft and watery it almost falls apart in the hand, which is why so much of the catch is hung on bamboo racks to dry rather than… Loitta (Bombay duck) is salted and sun-dried until firm and intensely pungent, then torn into pieces and fried with onion, garlic, and plenty of chili into a dry, punchy curry… Chittagong Signature · Fragrant Rice & Meat Akhni Biryani The name comes from 'yakhni', the Persian-derived word for a meat stock, because the rice is cooked in the meat's own broth instead of being layered… Beef or goat is cooked down with potatoes and whole spices, then the rice, often a short-grain aromatic variety such as chinigura, is cooked in the same pot so it absorbs the meat's spiced… GI-Protected Sweet · Milk-Soaked Dumplings Cumilla Rasmalai Kolkata's K.C. Das sweet shop also claims to have invented rasmalai, yet in Bangladesh the dessert is so tied to Comilla that it carries the city's… Soft, flattened cottage-cheese dumplings are simmered in sugar syrup, then soaked in reduced, sweetened milk flavored with cardamom and topped with pistachio or saffron. Comilla's…

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