Alutua Recipe
Alutua Recipe
Cuisine: BengaliAlutua Recipe: Alutua is a Bengali potato dish cooked with minimal spices, often using ingredients like potatoes, tomatoes, and sometimes a hint of panch phoron, a five-spice mix.
Ingredients
1 cup sugar
oil for frying
1 tsp soda bicarbonate
1/2 kg sweet potatoes
9 – 10 raisins
1 tbsp ghee
1/2 cup refined flour
Directions
- Make a syrup of one thread consistency with the sugar and 1 1/2 cup of water.
- Wash and boil the sweet potatoes with as little water as possible.
- Drain the whole water.
- Take off skin and fiber, if any, and mash.
- Sieve the flour and the soda, and rub in the ghee.
- Mix into the sweet potatoes.
- Knead well.
- In case the mixture feels soft, mix in a little more flour.
- Make lime-sized crack free balls and stuff one raisin in each.
- Heat up oil in a kadai.
- When the oil begins to smoke, take off the heat, put in a few balls at a time.
- Put on medium heat up again and fry till golden brown.
- Remove and put the balls in the syrup and keep aside for a few hours.
- Serve warm or cold.
