East Indian
Aloo Chokha (Mashed Roasted Potato)
Aloo Chokha (Mashed Roasted Potato) 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
- 4 potatoes
- 3 tbsp mustard oil
- 1/2 cup onion, finely chopped
- 2 green chilies, chopped
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- 2 tbsp chopped cilantro
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Roast the potatoes directly over an open flame or under a broiler, turning occasionally, until the skins char and blister and the inside is soft, about 20 minutes (or boil, then lightly char if no open flame is available).
- Let the potatoes cool slightly, then peel off the charred skin and mash the flesh roughly with a fork, leaving some texture.
- Add the raw onion, green chilies, garlic, and cilantro to the mashed potato.
- Drizzle with mustard oil and lemon juice, add salt, and mix everything together by hand.
- Serve at room temperature alongside dal-bhat as the everyday side.
Serve it with
A East Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Aloo Chokha (Mashed Roasted Potato), 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 Chokha (Mashed Roasted Potato) 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 Chokha (Mashed Roasted Potato) takes about 30 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 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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