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.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Side Dish
- Cuisine: Indian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 180