Alu bhorta ba chokha/bharta/Indian Style Spiced Mashed potatoes

Alu bhorta/bharta/chokha (Indian Style Spiced Mashed Potatoes) are the different names of the mashed potato from different regions of India like Bengal,Odissa,Rajasthan etc.

Whenever I feel like cooking something from my childhood days comfort food,then this is always on my menu list. Steaming hot rice with this alu bhorta and a bhaja moong daal/simple moong beans soup.

It is flavorful and have a slight fiery aroma from the dried red chillies…..it can also be used as filling for sandwiches or stuffing for parathas (fried flat bread)

Let’s make aloo bharta/bhorta/Indian Style Spiced Mashed potatoes 👇👇👇

Type- Side dish

Preparation time- 10-12 minutes

Cooking time- 20-25 minutes (including the boiling of potatoes)

Ingredients:

2 large potato cut into halves then boiled
1/2 cup sliced onions
2-3 whole red chillies
3-4 chopped green chillies (adjust heat according to your taste)
Salt to taste

Procedure:

In a bowl add the potatoes and boiled them in a microwave at high power for 15-20 minutes (mine took 18 minutes)
Drain the water and mash them
In a pan add 2 tbs oil and fry 2-3 whole red chillies until brown and keep aside
In that oil add 1/2 cup chopped onions and 3-4 chopped green chillies and fry till onion are brown in color and keep them aside
In the mashed potatoes now add the brown onions and fried green chillies
Now add the fried whole red chillies and start by breaking the red chillies and mixing them
Add salt to taste
Mix until everything comes together
Now it’s ready
Take some amount of it and start making balls and serve it with steamed rice

We’ve added a step by step video of the recipe 👇👇👇