Cooking Demo and Lunch with Local Family

The tour guide will receive you from your booked hotel between 11:30 AM - 12 PM, and would take you to the home of a Bengali family where the cooking session will be held. You will receive a warm Indian traditional welcome with Aarti, tika and floral garlanding. Enjoy the welcome drinks a hot cup of tea or coffee.

Bengali cuisine is topped by consumption of fish (head preferred) and rice. Fresh sweet water fish are preferred such as roui, ilish, koi or pabda. The salt water fish Ilish is very popular. Prawns, shrimp, crabs, goat, mutton and chicken are commonly eaten. The use of spices and Shorsher tel (mustard oil) is extensive for cooking. A meal is incomplete without a sweet dish, hence the most popular sweets are: Roshogolla, Shondesh, Pantua and Mishti Doi; where milk is the key ingredient.

Choose the dish you would want to cook for the cooking session. Subsequently, a demo will be given where you will be told about the ingredients to be used like spices followed by basic cooking procedure. Then enjoy the culinary session followed by a delicious lunch. Relish the dishes cooked by you and the ones by Indian family. Meanwhile, interact with them knowing about their culture, tradition, cuisine and everything else.

After the interesting culinary session bid adieu to the family and head back to the hotel by our chauffeur driven car.