Eid-ul-Fitr is one of the two major religious festivals of Islam. After a long month of fasting, Muslims celebrate this day with religious rituals and joy. The festival begins after watching the moon of the month of Shawal. Every Muslim take some sweet before Eid prayer. Such as date, semai, kheer, halwa etc. Bangladeshi Muslims are not different. They start this day with sweets. That’s why some people call this day ‘Misty Eid’. Bangladeshi Muslim families make various dishes. And share these items with others on this day. We’ll know about the 10 most popular Bangladeshi Eid foods among these items.
1. Semai
Semai is a major sweet item of eid day. It looks a lot like noodles but a little thinner. On the day of Eid in every Bangladeshi family, we see these two types of semai, common and lachcha. Several ingredients we will need in semai recipes, such as semai, milk, coconut, ghee, cashew nut, almonds and raisins. Semai can be cooked both wet and dry.
2. Payes
Payes is a rice pudding. It is also known as kheer and firni. Milk, aroma or atop chal (white rice), sugar, almonds, raisins, cardamom, mawa, and saffron are needed to make payes. Payes is a very favourite sweet item for Bangladeshi people.
3. Jorda
Jorda means a kind of sweet yellow rice. The word ”Jorda” comes from the word ‘jorod’. It means yellow. Jorda’s recipes use rice, ghee, sugar, saffron, almonds and dates.
4. Biryani
Biryani is one of the first choices of Bangladeshi people for Eid day. Biryani recipes use meat, fragrant rice, ghee, yoghurt, special spices, milk, nuts and saffron.
5. Chicken Roast
Chicken Roast is a popular food item for Eid. Chicken is the main ingredient in this recipe others ingredient are yoghurt, ghee, roast spices, milk, onion etc. This dish serves with polao or biriyani.
6. Korma
Korma is a very well-known dish. Korma has been on the list of the favourite food of Bangladeshis for a long time. It’s a sweet curry. Its main ingredients are chicken, milk, sugar and light spices.
7. Morog polao
Morog polao is a delicious food item. It is a popular food for Eid. Chicken, ghee, sour curd, milk, special spices, other ingredients and fragrant rice need in the Morog polao recipe.
8. Polao
We can see various kinds of polao in Bangladesh for Eid day. Such as vegetable polao, egg polao, plain polao, chicken polao (Morog polao) etc. Generally, polao serve with beef, chicken or mutton curry. Bangladeshi people love this food. They can’t think of any Eid without polao.
9. Beef and Mutton Curry
Beef and Mutton curry are popular dishes among Bangladeshi Muslims. They like many kinds of beef curry, such as Kalabhuna, Mejbani, Roasted beef curry and potato beef curry. Many types of mutton curry are also like in Bangladeshi people. Such as roasted mutton (Mutton kosha), Mutton rejala and spicy mutton curry.
10. Sweets
On Eid day, Bangladeshi people like sweet items for dessert. Along with Semai and Payes, they also like Halva, Rasgulla, Jilapi, yoghurt and different kinds of milk sweets.
