East Indian

Odia Aloo Bharta (Mustard-Oil Mashed Potato)

Name: Odia Aloo Bharta (Mustard-Oil Mashed Potato)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: East Indian
Ingredients: 3 potatoes, boiled and mashed; 1/4 cup red onion, finely chopped; 1 green chili, finely chopped; 2 tbsp mustard oil; 1/4 tsp panch phoron (five-spice blend); 2 tbsp chopped cilantro; 3/4 tsp salt

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Odia Aloo Bharta (Mustard-Oil Mashed 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.

20 min Easy High fiber Vegetarian Vegan Halal Gluten free Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

3 potatoes, boiled and mashed
1/4 cup red onion, finely chopped
1 green chili, finely chopped
2 tbsp mustard oil
1/4 tsp panch phoron (five-spice blend)
2 tbsp chopped cilantro
3/4 tsp salt

How to cook it

Boil the potatoes until fork-tender, then peel and mash them roughly while still warm.
Heat the mustard oil in a small pan and temper with the panch phoron until it crackles, then let it cool slightly.
Mix the tempered oil into the mashed potato along with the raw onion, green chili, salt, and cilantro.
Stir everything together until well combined but still a little chunky.
Serve at room temperature alongside dal and rice, or with pakhala on a hot day.

Watch how to cook Odia Aloo Bharta (Mustard-Oil Mashed Potato)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A East Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Odia Aloo Bharta (Mustard-Oil Mashed Potato), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Aloo Posto (Potato in Poppy Seed Paste)
  
  35 min
The protein alongside
- Arhar Dal (Bihari-Style Toor Dal)
  
  30 min
What it is eaten with
- Bajra Bhakri (Pearl Millet Flatbread)
  
  35 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. Odia Aloo Bharta (Mustard-Oil Mashed Potato) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Odia Aloo Bharta (Mustard-Oil Mashed Potato)
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: 24 g
Fat: 6 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 330 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

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

When to cook it

Odia Aloo Bharta (Mustard-Oil Mashed Potato) 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.