Chapor ghonto / Bengali mix vegetables with lentil patties Recipe

Chapor ghonto – the beautiful mish mash of seasonal vegetables seasoned with Bengali spice blend, the panch phoron, beautifully scented with cumin-ginger paste which has become a backbone for all the Bengali vegetarian dishes. Like other Bengali vegetarian dishes, this one too uses no onion and garlic in the recipe. And as I have discussed earlier in my previous posts on Bengali vegetarian dishes (aloo posto), we attributed solely this to the community of Bengali widows of yesteryears. These group of socially secluded and deprived women have unconsciously been shaping up the most revered culinary  aspect of Bengali cuisine through years, the vegetarian aspect of Bengali cuisine. Rules were kept quiet stricter while cooking the vegetarian…