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Durga Puja food in Kolkata, 2026

Puja menus as the restaurants and rajbaris announced them on their own pages, and what bhog is served when.

Bhog, day by day

  1. Sun 18 Oct

    Saptami

    Belur Math closes the day's puja with bhog and arati

  2. Mon 19 Oct

    Ashtami

    Belur Math closes with bhog again; Wikipedia records a food offering to the goddess after the Sandhi Puja

  3. Tue 20 Oct

    Navami

    Homa and bhog

  4. Wed 21 Oct

    Dashami

    Belur Math offers a shital bhog, a cooling offering, before the visarjan rite; the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family's Atchala puja offers panta bhat

What goes on the bhog plate

  • Khichuri

    Rice and dal cooked together, often with vegetables

    In the medieval Manasamangal, Shiva asks Parvati to cook him moong dal khichuri with coconut water

  • Labra

    A mix of vegetables cooked in oil with light spice

    A Bengali Hindu dish, East Bengal's above all, named in the Chaitanya Charitamrita, where Chaitanya asks for it

  • Tomato chutney

    A sweet chutney of tomato

    Named as part of the usual bhog on Wikipedia's bhoga page

  • Payesh

    Rice cooked in milk with sugar

    The sweet end of the plate

  • Luchi

    Bread of maida, deep-fried in oil or ghee

    Offered as bhog at every puja, Durga Puja included, and eaten with labra or alur dom

  • Bhaja

    Fried vegetables

    At the older Sovabazar Rajbari the bhog is several kinds of bhaja and sweets

The full bhog post: What's in the Durga Puja bhog: khichuri, labra and the day-by-day offerings

Durga Puja in Kolkata · UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, 2021

Locations and Metro stations © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

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