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aloo

n. (context Indian cooking English) potato

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Aloo

Aloo is a South Asian term for potatoes.

It can be found in the name of a number of dishes:

  • Aloo gobi, potatoes and cauliflower
  • Aloo gosht, potatoes and meat in shorba gravy
  • Dum aloo, fried potatoes with gravy
  • Saag aloo, fried potatoes with spinach curry
  • Aloo mutter, potatoes and peas in tomato gravy
  • Aloo pie, a fried pastry filled with potatoes and vegetables
  • Aloo posto, potatoes cooked with a paste of poppy seeds
  • Aloo paratha, an unleavened bread stuffed with mashed potatoes

Usage examples of "aloo".

But Gobi Aloo Sag is yellow, so I put red food coloring into it before I eat it.

And I make myself some Gobi Aloo Sag with red food coloring in it and some strawberry milk shake for a drink, and then I watch a video about the solar system and I play some computer games and I go to bed.

At the Bombay Bhel, they barely had time to eat their aloo tikki and drink their Thunderbolt beer.

I drove home via Rusholme, where I picked up a selection of samosas, onion bhajis, chicken pakora and aloo saag bhajis.

The Star of India, we ordered Chicken Tikka and Lamb Jalfrezi, Aloo Gobi, pilau, riata, and paratha, hot food to warm our frozen hearts.

Requeste made by my lorde cardynalles grace for appreste or aloone of more money to the kynges grace, they can in no wise agre thereto, but they ar and wilbe well contendid to be examyned uppon their othes yf it shall please his grace so to do.

It was then that the process really began that would lead to such dishes as lorne sausage shami kebab, rabbit masala, fruit pudding chaat, skink aloo, porridge tarka, shell pie aloo gobi, kipper bhoona, chips pea pulao, whelk poori and marmalade kulfi, and I think the world is a better place for all of them.

A friend of Pauline's saw him in town eating aloo gobi and pilau rice with a side order of brindal bhaji!

But Gobi Aloo Sag is yellow, so I put red food coloring into it before I eat it.