Description
Aloo Bhaate or mashed potatoes is the most basic dish in Bengali cuisine. It also happens to be a quintessential comfort food.
Ingredients
- potatoes (pref. Yukon Gold or Red Potatoes or similar low starch potatoes), as much as you would like to serve
- pure mustard oil (or ghee if you do not want to use mustard oil), to taste
- finely chopped red onions, to taste
- finely sliced hot chili peppers (remove seeds and membranes if you do not want it spicy), to taste
- salt, to taste
Instructions
- Boil potatoes until fork tender. Drain. Peel (if you boiled then skin on) and mash them really well until lump free.
- Add salt, mustard oil (or ghee) , onion and peppers. Mash and combine everything together one more time.
- Serve at room temperature.
Notes
while the onions and peppers add the best flavors along with the mustard oil, it is not required. The dish can be made with only mashed potatoes, ghee and salt. Ghee adds a better flavor than butter (in my honest opinion) for this particular recipe.
Then there are some more decorative varieties of Aloo Bhaate that uses kashundi or the tangy mustard, or toasted and crushed red chilli pepper. So feel free to adapt it to your style, while keeping the authentic essence in mind.
- Category: Side
- Cuisine: Bengali