Name: Crushed potatoes with hard-boiled eggs
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: Garlic-flavoured Mung Beans and Plain Boiled Rice, to serve; julienne strips of fresh red chillies, to garnish; 30 ml/2 tbsp fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves, finely chopped; 1 fresh green chilli, finely chopped (deseeded if preferred); 2 shallots, finely chopped; 30 ml/2 tbsp mustard oil; 5 ml/1 tsp salt, or to taste; 4 hard-boiled eggs, peeled; 675 g/1½ lb potatoes

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Indian Regional Cookbook

By Mridula Baljekar

Published 2017

About

This classic dish, Alu-Konir Pitika, can be enjoyed any time of day as a snack, side dish or light meal. It is very easy to make, being a simple combination of mashed potatoes and chopped hard-boiled eggs flavoured with mustard oil, finely chopped shallots, green chilli and fresh coriander leaves.

Ingredients

675 g/1½ lb potatoes
4 hard-boiled eggs, peeled

Method

Peel the potatoes, cut them into chunks, then boil them in a large pan of salted water for about 10 minutes, until they are soft. Drain well, then mash until smooth.
Cut the eggs in half and separate the whites from the yolks. Chop the