Alu Sheddho
Boiled potatoes, flavoured with green chillies, and ghee, butter or mustard oil, depending on your preference.
- Cooking time20 mins
Calorieskcal
This recipe yields balls of warm, fluffy, buttery mash that you can eat with steaming rice and dal. While there are any number of ways in which you can boil the potatoes, for this recipe, we’ve found that cooking potatoes in an open pot of boiling water will get you the best results. You don’t want the potatoes to absorb too much water while they are cooking, as usually happens in the pressure cooker. In an open pot, you can always stick a fork into the potatoes to check if they are tender. Peeling the potatoes before you add them to the pot is also useful. It eliminates the need to handle hot spuds while removing their skins.
Our favourite way, however, to cook potatoes for this recipe is to put the halved or quartered pieces into the same pot of water as your rice. That way, your _alu sheddho_ is ready at nearly the same time as your rice and there is one less pot to wash at the end of the meal.
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Ingredients
- 350 g potatoes (boiled)
- 2 pieces green chillies (finely chopped)
- 12 g ghee or butter or mustard oil (any one)
- 4 g salt
Method
- Peel the potatoes and cut them in quarters.
- Place the pieces in a pot of water and set them to boil.
- Cook the potatoes till they are tender. Use a fork or knife to check if they are done.
- Drain the water and transfer the boiled potatoes onto a plate or mixing dish.
- While they are still hot, mash the potatoes with a fork.
- Add the fat of your choice (ghee or butter or mustard oil), green chillies, and salt.
- Continue mashing with a fork or by hand till the mixture is smooth and lump-free.
- Form into balls and serve.
