Aloo Pitika
Aloo pitika is a very simple, easy and quick recipe prepared with mashed potato and very minimal ingredients. Ita soilful and comfort food ans is ready in less then 15 minutes.
Equipment
- pressure cooker
- mortar pestle
Ingredients
- 3 large potatoes
- 3-4 green chilly chopped
- 2 onion chopped
- few coriander leaves chopped
- 2 tablespoon mustard oil
- salt to taste
- water as required to cook the potatoes
Instructions
- Peel the potatoes, roughly chop them and pressure cook for 2-3 whistles or you can normally cook them in a pot.
- Drain the cooked potatoes and let it cool down.
- In a mixing bowl add the potatoes and mash them smoothly.
- Add the chopped onions, green chillies, coriander leaves, raw mustard oil and season with salt.
- Mix them well together. Serve it as a side dish with piping hot rice.
Notes
- You can cook the potato whole with skin, once cooked remove the skin and mash.
- Green chilly can be adjusted as per your heat preference.
- The potato need to be cooked nicely from inside out.
- If you are not used to the pungency of raw mustard oil, heat the oil till it starts to smoke. Let it cool down and then add to the mashed potato.
- King chilly fans can add a bit of finely chopped bhut jolokia. Its amazing!