Aloo Tamaa
Aloo Tama (Alu Tama) simply means "Potato Bamboo
Shoots". It is a unique and classic Nepali curry flavor dish used by all
class of people. It is unique because it is unlike any other Indian or South
Asian curry since they rarely use bamboo shoots. Similarly, unlike other East
Asian cuisine such as Chinese that uses Bamboo shoots but does not use curry
spices. Alu tama is the typical newari soup prepare with black eye beans,
bamboo shoots and potatoes.
Ingredients
300 gm Plack eye beans
400 gm Bamboo Shoots
4 Tablespoon vegetable oil
2 Red onion finely chopped
2 Fresh tomato finely chopped
1/2 Teaspoon Garlic paste ( fresh garlic)
1/2 Teaspoon Ingwer paste (fresh ingwer)
1/5 Turmeric
450 gm Potato, pleed and cut into cube sizes
1.5 litre soup water ( used the pork boiled water or
chicken)
1 Teaspoon cucumin
1 Tablespoon chilli powder ( if you like hot & spicy)
Salt according to your taste
Prepartion
To cook the Alu Tama, the pressure cooker is preffered. But
if you don't have the pressure cooker, you can also use the normal cooking pot.
Heat the oil in the pressure cooker or pot, add the potato and beans, fry it
for 5 minutes and stir it occassinally. Give the soup water into the pressure
cooker (pot), add salt, cucumin, turmeric and cooked it untill the pressure
cooker whistle or 30 minutes in pot.
Heat the extra pan with oil. Add the chopped onion, stir it
for 2-3 minutes and add the bamboo shoot with some salt. Add tomato and cooked
the bamboo shoot until it is ready.
Add the cooked bamboo shoots from the pan into the soup and
cooked it for 10 mintues.
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