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Bring Durga Puja Home With This Classic Bengali Tomato Khejur Chutney Recipe
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News18•18-10-2026, 15:05
Bring Durga Puja Home With This Classic Bengali Tomato Khejur Chutney Recipe
- •Tomato khejur chutney is a classic sweet and tangy Bengali dish that serves as a traditional finish to Durga Puja bhog meals.
- •The recipe uses everyday ingredients like ripe tomatoes, dates, mango leather, cashews, raisins, and a blend of spices including panchphoron.
- •Food content creator Anindya Madhushree Basu shared this easy recipe on Instagram, allowing people to enjoy festive flavours at home.
- •The step-by-step cooking process involves tempering spices, softening tomatoes, cooking dates, and adding a syrupy mix of dry fruits and optional lemon juice.
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The recipe calls for 4 large tomatoes, 10 Indian dates, 1/2 cup of chopped mango leather, panchphoron, a dried red chilli, salt, turmeric powder, 1/2 cup of chopped cashews, golden raisins, vegetable oil, and warm water, with optional sugar and lemon juice.
This festive Bengali tomato chutney recipe was shared by food content creator Anindya Madhushree Basu on Instagram.
Wash and slice tomatoes lengthwise while discarding seeds. Heat vegetable oil in a pan, temper with a dried red chilli and panchphoron, then add tomatoes with salt and turmeric powder, cooking them covered until soft.
