Taaler kheer + Taaler luchi—traditional Bengali sweets using toddy palm fruit

Taal is the Bangla name for the toddy palm fruit. Ripe fruits appear in the market in the middle of August and stay on for just over a month. It is a fibrous fruit with a golden-yellow, sweet, fragrant pulp. The pulp is turned into all kinds of sweets in Bengal—fried sweet-savoury fritters (phuluri), taal-flavoured rice puddings, and various other stuffed sweetmeats. Today's video covers two of our favourites that are commonly served together—both made using taal pulp.

The first one is taal kheer—a pudding of the pulp with reduced milk and fresh coconut. The second recipe is luchi—a fried puffy bread that is kneaded with the pulp instead of water—resulting in golden luchi instead of the regular white luchis.

The taal tree is an important part of Bengal's natural landscape. It is a giant among giants—being the tallest tree in Bengal's flora of tall palms such as the coconut, date and betel palms. The tree is loved so much that it has had poems written for it by both of Bengal's greatest poets—Rabindranath and Nazrul. The love endures to this day.

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[nurjahansadia]

তালের সাস বের করার জন্য যে স্ক্রাবার টা ব্যবহার করলে।ওটার বয়স ১০০ বছর আর ওটা ঢাকা থেকে নেওয়া এইটুকু জেনেই ভীষণ খুশি হয়ে গেছি।আর রেসিপি তো নিসন্দেহে সেরা।

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[sarkarmolecularecologist]

Love the way you guys cook! It is aesthetically extremely pleasing. :)

[shyamalbhattacharjee]

Osadharon Taaler kheer r Taaler luchi recipe😊

[chaitidutta]

তালের দিনে তলের recipe খুব ভালো লেগেছে 👌👍

[maasaradark]

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[milighosh]

তালের ক্ষীর করার একটা সহজ উপায় এই বছর বার করেছি। দুধ জ্বাল দিয়ে milkmaid মিশিয়েছি, তার মধ্যে তালের ক্বাথ আর নারকেল মিশিয়ে দিয়েছিলাম। Superb হয়েছিল। আমি তালটা একটু কম দিই, আর ক্ষীরের মতন ঘন করি, অত শুকনো নয়।
এই প্রজন্মের একটি মেয়েকে তালের জিনিস বানাতে দেখে খুব খুশি হলাম 😊 আমার নিজের মেয়েও রোস্ট, বেক, গ্রীল, জাপানীজ, চাইনীজের সাথে এরকম ঘরোয়া বাঙালি রান্না করে।

[arpitakhan]

Very happy to see you the tool for taal, we also use this for generations

[susmitathakur]

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[vikashsharma-eqeq]

I just love all the videos here, I am from Bihar and some of our foods are very similar.

[roynilanjana]

🎉🎉🎉 Hats off to you for venturing into this huge task! Lot of work +time goes into it. One of the best recipes of your channel. Thank you for sharing this particular recipe.🥰🥰

[reshmidas]

Ufff yumm.. excellent demonstration as always.. just can't wait to eat.

[sudipta]

We too have that taal grater but in recent years I switched to a perforated plate which is used for steaming . This is saving a lot of time and labour as it makes the pulp fibre free and without any bitterness. So no need to soak in limewater or straining the pulp later. Just scoop out the pulp and not the watery part after grating, that takes away the bitterness.

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[aninditaguha]

Amar maa banato taler kheer r luchi. Eta dekhe maa k khub miss korchi

[priyankaacharjee]

Really loved this recipe.Can you make a video narikaler sondesh, a special Bengali sweet?

[formylove]

Much awaited recipe ❤.... thank you so much 💞

[asmit_plays]

Tomra kokhono bodlabe na. Luchi gulor radius mapcho 😂😛... Jai hok, phenomenal presentation as always

[ahelmaswood]

fabulous. unexpected. expect me to make it