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Aloo Bhorta

Name: Aloo Bhorta
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Bangladesh
Ingredients: 3 Potato; 1/2 Red Onion; 3 Red Chili Pepper; 1 Green Chili Pepper; To taste Cilantro; 1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 1/2 tsp Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 25 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Boiled potatoes mashed with charred red chili, onion, and oil — a humble Bangladeshi accompaniment to rice.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bhorta means 'mashed' — a Bangladeshi home dish of potatoes, eggplant, fish, or lentils mashed and mixed with aromatics. Its key is traditionally the pungent aroma of mustard oil, and it's mixed into rice and eaten by hand. Several kinds of bhorta often appear on the table at once.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a family lunch table, several rounded mounds of bhorta sit beside the rice as each person mixes them into rice by hand.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Potato 3
Red Onion 1/2
Red Chili Pepper 3
Green Chili Pepper 1
Cilantro To taste
Mustard Seeds 1/2 tsp
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the potatoes in their skins and peel while hot.
Dry-toast the dried red chilies in a frying pan until charred and crumble finely by hand.
Crush the mustard seeds finely in a mortar and mix with the vegetable oil.
Mash the potatoes smooth with your hands or a fork.
Add the chopped red onion, green chili, red chili, cilantro, oil, and salt and knead together well.
Shape into rounds and plate.

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