7 Mouth Watering And Must-Try Dishes At Oh! Calcutta

Oh! Calcutta has won the Times GoodFood Bengali Restaurant Award and for all the right reasons. This place aces in serving you the gourmet renditions of delectable dishes from Bengal. This up-scale restaurant perfectly captures the Bong vibe; right from the ambience to the food. With our hot list of must-try dishes that we’ve handpicked, free the food connoisseur in you to taste their authentic delicacies prepared using the old rolodex recipes best served at Oh! Calcutta that are sure to beat the boredom out of your food palette. 

1. Nolen Gurer Ice Cream

An extremely healthy alternative to artificially sweetened icecreams, Nolen Gurer ice cream is worth a try. Prepared using milk, full cream, egg yolks, and jaggery, this ice cream has a silky smooth texture. This dish originates from the households of Bengal. An excellent way to beat the heat and definitely a new thing to try.

2. Kosha Mangsho

This will be by-far the most heavenly mutton curry you’d ever taste and this is why we recommend it. With a spice base of onions, tomato, and yogurt, the mutton is cooked in mustard oil, this dish is high on the spice spectrum and makes use of whole spices. Patience is a virtue, and this dish is the very example as Kosha Mangsho is cooked on low heat for a long time, perfecting the flavours and giving you a rich dark and savoury curry which is absolutely lip-smacking and finger-liking good.

3. Mochar Chop

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This extremely unique dish is one of the much demanded Bengali staple snacks. Mocha is, literally, banana blossom or banana flower. A really unique aspect of Bengali vegetarian dishes is that they don’t incorporate garlic and onion in it much. Most parts of the banana plant are incorporated into their vegetarian cooking. This unique and scrumptious cutlet, colloquially known as ‘chop’ is deep fried served with kasundi chutney. 

4. Daab Tulsi Torkari

Another vegetarian-friendly dish is Daab Tulsi Torkari. The confluence of coconut and Indian basil form the thick creamy base of the dish with vegetables tossed into it. This selection from Oh! Calcutta is not only appetizing but also extremely satiating. It can be relished with Lucchi or Ghee Bhatt that they serve along with it. 

5. Bhapa Ilish

A Bengali food tour won’t ever be complete without Bhapa Ilish. If you could condense (though tough) the huge variety in Bengali flavours to one, and come up with a trademark dish, it would be Bhapa Ilish. Made using mustard, yogurt and coconut paste, it is the most delectable dish you’d ever come across. Steamed Hilsa fish is good for health AND tongue. You can’t miss out on this bong speciality at all.

6. Panch Phoran Paneer Tikka

Another scrumptious dish served by Oh! Calcutta is Panch Phoran Paneer Tikka. Panch Phoran is the colloquial name given to a masala mix made using five equal quantities of spices. Rich and flavourful, this dish incorporates a lot of mustard seed and oil. If you thought Bengali dishes are all about potatoes and meat, this would be a fun and flavoursome surprise.

7. Gondhoraj Mousse 

‘King of Aroma’, Gondhoraj lives up to its name. The sweltering heat of West Bengal provides the perfect setting to indulge in this Lemon Mousse. This completely refreshing dessert provides a great conclusion to a huge meal. It rinses off the pungent smells and flavours used in Bengali cooking and leaves a zingy and fresh flavour behind. Oh! Calcutta has mastered the Gondhoraj Mousse and you’ll only do complete justice to your gastronomical experience if you try this.

Where | Oh! Calcutta - Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Gurgaon
Meal for two | Rs 1,800
Timing | 12 PM – 4 PM, 7 PM – 11 PM
Check Their FB Page | https://www.facebook.com/ohcalcuttaindia/ 

So, fellow foodies, head out to Oh! Calcutta for an experimental food outing. See ya there!