Bhapa Potato

Name: Bhapa Potato
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 16 piece small potato; 2 tsp mustard oil; 1/2 tsp five spices; 2 dry red chilli; 1 tbsp mustard paste; 1 tbsp hung curd; 2 tbsp coconut paste; 1 tsp green chilli paste; Pinch turmeric powder; Salt as per taste; 1 tsp lemon juice; Banana leaf for wrap

Tulika Santra @cook_12125974

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Bhapa is the Bengali wors used for steamed.
A very simple recipe Bhapa potato involves very little cooking yet is a food connoisseurs delight. In this dish mustard seeds, green chillies and coconut are ground together into a paste and the potatoes are coated with this paste and steamed in Banana leaves.

Tulika Santra @cook_12125974

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Ingredients

4 servings

16 piecesmall potato
2 tspmustard oil
1/2 tspfive spices
2dry red chilli
1 tbspmustard paste
1 tbsphung curd
2 tbspcoconut paste
1 tspgreen chilli paste
Pinchturmeric powder
Salt as per taste
1 tsplemon juice
Banana leaf for wrap

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Steps

1

Peel the potatoes and par boil them in salted water, drain and keep aside.
2

Heat oil in a non-stick pan, add the five spice mixture, break the red chillies in half and stir the spices around till they splutter.
3

Pour this over the potatoes and put aside.
4

In a mixing bowl prepare a marinade with the mustard paste, curd, coconut paste, green chilli paste and turmeric powder, whip it well.
5

Gently mix the potatoes into this marinate.
6

Add the salt and lemon juice, mix again.
7

Put the potatoes on a steel plate, cover with the banana leaves and steam them for 6-8 minutes. Serve hot.