page_title: Mezban
section_title: Cooking techniques
hierarchical_section_title: Mezban / Cooking techniques
caption_attribution_description: বাংলা: ঐতিহ্যবাহী মেজবানি (রান্না), চট্টগ্রাম, বাংলাদেশ।English: Traditional Mejban (cooking), Chittagong, Bangladesh.
context_page_description: Mezban is one of the popular social festival of the Chittagong region in Bangladesh. The word "Mezban" in Persian means host and "Mezbani" means hosting or arranging a feast for the guests. Historically Mezbani is a traditional regional feast where people are invited to enjoy a meal with white rice and beef, besides a ton of other dishes are also served such as curry of Mung Bean, Liver Fry, etc. that depends on the event to event was held on the occasions such as death anniversary, birth anniversary, own successes, launching of a new business, entry into a new house, the birth of a sought after child in a family, marriage, aqiqah and circumcision, ear piercing of girls and naming of the newborn. The invitation of the Mezban ceremony generally remains open for all and various people to different places and neighborhoods convey the invitation for the feast. The invitation cards are printed and distributed among the guests only in urban areas. Usually, the consumption of food at Mezbani takes place from morning to afternoon.
context_section_description: Traditionally Mezban is a beef-dominated meal and a symbol of social prestige. The rich and the poor arrange feasts on various occasions as much as circumstances allow them. It has a prominent style of cooking and proper Mezban meat demands a certain skill; for example:
  Spicy beef cooked with a lot of red chilies
  Less hot but sour and spicy broth made from the tubular bone of a cow, which is known as Nawla kanji
  A kind of pulse which is cooked after peeling the skin of beans and then crushing them; it is called Bhuna dal
  Food of slightly pungent taste made from chick-pea pulse, bone, fat, and meat.
caption: Mezban cooking in Chittagong
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