Narkeler Bora (Bengali Fresh Coconut Fritters)

Ingredients for Narkeler Bora :


Grated Coconut                                         1
Green Chilly                                              2
Rice Flour                                                  1 tbsp

Refined Flour                                             1 tbsp
Joan(Ajwain seeds)                                   1 pinch
Sugar                                                          1 pinch
Salt                                                            as per your taste

My Recipe :

Grind the grated coconut into a rough paste in a  Motar and Pastel with green chilly, sugar, salt and joan.
Use as little water as possible.
Add the refined flour and rice flour to bind.
Make round shaped balls and flatten. Roll on flour to coat. Dust off excess flour.
Heat a cup of Refined oil in a wok and deep fry on low heat till golden .
Remove on to a tissue paper.
Serve hot.

A billboard attracted my attention the other day and I remembered that it's only days away from Durga Puja !!

It reminded me of the various different types of Durga Puja celebrations I have experienced in the fifty years of my life, some simple , some very ordinary and some very lavish.

Back in Jorhat ,the Assamese celebrated Durga Puja in simple style but there were quite a few even in the tea estates that we visited . We had been fortunate enough to visit a family celebration in our land lord Mr.Chandra Dutta's family home.

Life in this quite, dreamy city (although it's a city but it felt like a small town) was slow and simple, people down to earth and that could be visible in the Puja's organised. Often we saw historical monuments or incidents of importance or Hindu-Muslim unity being shown, the important period of the mighty Ahom rulers being depicted in the Durga Puja celebrations. Bongal Pokhuri Puja Samiti, Basbari Puja Samiti, Sri Sri Ramkrishna Sevasharam, Horishabha Puja committee are a few I remember .....as we lived in Pub Bongal Pokhuri.

Unlike Kolkata,t he city is not over crowded so we could drive our car right up to the Pandals in most places. In Bengal, Durgapur, Asansol Siliguri, Malda, Rayjung, Bishnupur and other towns celebrate Durga Puja very differently and as we have been travelling all over Bengal ,we have had a lot of good experiences. 

Will share these with all my friends in future posts.

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