Bhapaa Aloo Recipe
How to make Bhapaa Aloo
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- Difficulty Level: Medium
Baby potatoes in a distinctive five spice mix, steamed with mustard paste, curd and coconut.
Ingredients of Bhapaa Aloo
- 200 gm small potatoes
- 2 tsp mustard oil
- 1/2 tsp Bengali five spice mixture (panchphoron) (whole jeera, saunf seeds, fenugreek seeds, black mustrad seeds and kalaunji)
- 2 dry red chillies
- 1/2 tsp mustard paste
- 1 tsp hung curd
- 3/4 tsp desiccated coconut paste
- Pinch of green chilli paste
- Pinch of turmeric powder
- Salt - to taste
- Dash of lime juice
- 2 banana leaves
How to Make Bhapaa Aloo
- 1.Peel the potatoes and par boil them in salted water, drain and keep aside.
- 2.Heat oil in a non-stick pan, add the five spice mixture, break the red chillies in half and add them next.
- 3.Stir the spices around till they splutter.
- 4.Pour this over the potatoes and put aside
- 5.In a mixing bowl prepare a marinade with the mustard paste, curd, coconut paste, green chilli paste and turmeric powder, whip it well.
- 6.Gently mix the potatoes into this marinade.
- 7.Add the salt and lime juice, mix again.
- 8.Put the potatoes on a steel plate, cover with the banana leaves and steam them for 6-8 minutes. Serve hot.
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