"Daal Puri" is my favorite tea snack.

"Daal Puri" is my favourite tea snack.

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Daal Puri is a Bangladeshi snack. First, we boil the lentil with onion, salt, garlic, turmeric, and chilli. Coriander leaf is optional. You have to give less water, so it soaks almost all the water and leaves the boiled, soft wet lentil. Then, we make tortillas with flour, a pinch of salt, and oil. Then make a small tortilla or roti. Put a teaspoon of lentil paste in the middle and cover it with the rooti like momo. Then again, with the roller make small rooti. In the end, fry it in the oil. Your puri is ready.

This is the typical recipe. You can make it in many different ways.

I like to take it with salad/salsa and tea.

Biography 14: Kotkoti (Bangladeshi sweet snacks)

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Kotkoti is a sweet snack.

Earlier in Dhaka (Bangladesh), there was some professional guy who use to go to the houses to collect cristal bottles to recycle. Instead of giving money, they use to give food, Kotkoti. They bring the food in a round box, made with tin. They had a small hammer and an iron pin to break the hard Kotkoti and measured it. Then give it to the children of the house. It was a very popular snack for children. In those days, people didn't use plastic bottles, so it was easy for the kids to collect bottles made of glass. Now a day, it's not available in Bangladesh as the way it was.

I remember I used to stand by the Kotkoti man and wait patiently when he will give us Kotkoti. My cousin brothers didn't want to miss a bit. While the man was breaking the Kotkoti one of my brothers use to grab all the powder fall on the box before Kotkoti man stopped him, he uses to run away.

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After moving into Canada, I have found almost the same dish! One of our colleagues who is from German made this dish for us. He said this is German's traditional dish. His family owns a restaurant. They are all are very good at cooking. He already cracked and bring us small pieces of Kotkoti. I'm sorry, I forget the German name of it.