Northeast Indian
Aloo Pitika (Mashed Potato with Mustard Oil)
Aloo Pitika (Mashed Potato with Mustard Oil) is Northeast Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment and 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
- 4 potatoes
- 1 tbsp mustard oil
- 1 red onion
- 1 green chili
- 2 tbsp chopped cilantro
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Boil the potatoes whole in salted water until a knife slides through easily, about 15 minutes.
- Drain, cool just enough to handle, then peel and mash with your hands or a fork, leaving it a little rough rather than smooth.
- Finely chop the onion, chili, and cilantro and mix them straight into the warm potato.
- Drizzle in the mustard oil and salt and mix well with your fingers so the raw oil coats everything.
- Taste and adjust salt, then serve at room temperature alongside rice and dal.
Serve it with
A Northeast Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Aloo Pitika (Mashed Potato with Mustard Oil), 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 Pitika (Mashed Potato with Mustard Oil) 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 Pitika (Mashed Potato with Mustard Oil) 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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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on potato and onion.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from Northeast 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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