Northeast Indian

Aloo Pitika (Mashed Potato with Mustard Oil)

Name: Aloo Pitika (Mashed Potato with Mustard Oil)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Northeast Indian
Ingredients: 4 potatoes; 1 tbsp mustard oil; 1 red onion; 1 green chili; 2 tbsp chopped cilantro; 1/2 tsp salt

Bandana Gogoi @bandana_ghy

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.

20 min Easy Vegetarian Vegan Halal Gluten free Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

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.

Watch how to cook Aloo Pitika (Mashed Potato with Mustard Oil)

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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.

The dish at the centre
- Akhuni Yam (Fermented Soybean with Yam and Mustard Greens)
  
  25 min
The protein alongside
- Lauki Chana Dal (Bottle Gourd and Lentils)
  
  45 min
What it is eaten with
- Galho (One Pot Rice, Greens and Chicken Porridge)
  
  40 min

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.

Every tracked allergen in Aloo Pitika (Mashed Potato with Mustard Oil)
Allergen	In this dish
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

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 160 kcal
Protein: 3 g
Carbs: 26 g
Fat: 5 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 280 mg
Saturated fat: 0 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

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.