Aloo
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Aloo is an Indian term for potato
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It can be found in the name of a number of dishes:
Potato
The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family . The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species...
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It can be found in the name of a number of dishes:
- Aloo gobiAloo gobiAloo gobi is a dry Indian and Pakistani cuisine dish made with potatoes , cauliflower and Indian spices. It is yellowish in color, due to the use of turmeric, and occasionally contains kalonji and curry leaves. Other common ingredients include garlic, ginger, onion, coriander stalks, tomato,...
, potatoes and cauliflower - Dum alooDum alooDum Aloo belongs to, specifically, Kashmiri cuisine. The potatoes, usually smaller ones, are first deep fried, then cooked slowly at low flame in a curd based gravy with spices. The dish has become popular in different neighboring regions including India and Pakistan....
, fried potatoes with gravy - SaagSaagSaag or sag is a spinach and/or mustard leaf-based dish eaten in South Asia with bread such as roti or naan, or rice . Saag can be made from spinach, mustard leaves, or other greens, along with added spices and sometimes other ingredients such as paneer...
aloo, fried potatoes with spinach curry - Aloo pieAloo pieAn aloo pie is a variant of the samosa popular in Trinidad and Tobago. It is a soft, fried pastry made from flour and water, and filled with boiled, spiced and mashed potatoes and other vegetables like green peas or chana dal...
, a fried pastry filled with potatoes and vegetables