Aloo Chop Recipe | Bengali Potato Fritters
Aloo Chop is a deep-fried snack where a patty of spiced mashed potato is dipped in a batter before deep-frying. It is a popular evening snack, often served with a bowl of muri or puffed rice, sliced onion and a couple of green chillies.
Servings 24 pieces
Calories 0.089kcal
Equipment
- Stove Top
- Heavy bottom Non-stick Pan
- Mixing Bowl
- Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 7-8 Potatoes Large
- 2 tbsp Ginger Grated
- 2 tbsp Garlic Grated
- 2 Green Chilies Finely Chopped
- Salt to Taste
- 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 2 tbsp Rice Flour
- 1 cup Gram Flour or Besan
- Water
- ½ tsp Nigella Seeds or Kalonji or Kalo Jeere
- Mustard Oil
Instructions
- Pressure cook the Potatoes. Once cooked, take them out and allow them to cool before peeling them.
- Mash the potatoes till they are smooth. Add salt, turmeric powder, grated ginger, garlic and chopped green chillies in it. Mix everything well.
- Heat some mustard oil in a non-stick pan. Take around 2 tbsps of it. Add the mashed potato mix and fry it on low-medium heat till you get the aroma of fried garlic.
- Take this filling mix out on a plate and allow it to cool down completely.
- Then divide the mix into smaller portions to make flat patties of 2 inches diameter.
- Lightly dust some besan or gram flour on the patties so that the batter coats them nicely.
- Take rice flour, gram flour or besan, nigella seeds and some salt in a mixing bowl and make a thick slurry using water. Whisk it nicely to aerate it nicely.Check the video to see the consistency of the batter
- Heat mustard oil in a frying wok on medium heat.
- Dip the potato patties in the bater using a fork and drop them in the hot oil. Fry them till they puff up and turn light brown on each sides.
- Take them out on kitchen towel and serve hot.
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