East Indian
Aloo Bhaja (Bengali Fried Potato Strips)
Aloo Bhaja (Bengali Fried Potato Strips) is East Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 3 potatoes, julienned
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1/2 tsp panch phoron (five-spice blend)
- 2 green chilies, slit
- 3 tbsp mustard oil
- 3/4 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Cut the potatoes into thin matchsticks.
- Heat the mustard oil in a pan and temper with the panch phoron until it crackles.
- Add the potatoes, turmeric, salt, and slit green chilies, and toss well to coat.
- Cook uncovered over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes are crisp-edged and cooked through, about 15 minutes.
- Serve hot as an everyday side with dal-bhat.
Serve it with
A East Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Aloo Bhaja (Bengali Fried Potato Strips), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The protein alongside
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What it is eaten with
A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Aloo Bhaja (Bengali Fried Potato Strips) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Aloo Bhaja (Bengali Fried Potato Strips) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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Crispy Jhuri Aloo Bhaja Recipe/How to Make Crunchy Fried Potato Strips/Easy Delicious Bengali Snack
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on potato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from East India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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