Nepalese Curry Recipe

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VEGETARIAN NEPAL CURRY: RECIPE

Aloo Tamaa recipe: This Nepalese curry Aloo Tama (Alu Tama) simply means "Potato Bamboo Shoots". It is a unique and classic Nepali curry flavour dish used by all class of people. It is unique because any other Indian or South Asian curry rarely use bamboo shoots. Similarly, unlike other East Asian cuisine such as Chinese that uses Bamboo shoots but does not use curry spices. Alu tama is the typical newari soup prepare with black eye beans, bamboo shoots and potatoes.
 
Aloo Tamaa
* 300 gm Plack eye beans
* 400 gm Bamboo Shoots
* 4 Tablespoon vegetable oil
* 2 Red onion finely chopped
* 2 Fresh tomato finely chopped
* 1/2 Teaspoon Garlic paste ( fresh garlic)
* 1/2 Teaspoon Ingwer paste (fresh ingwer)
* 1/5 Turmeric
* 450 gm Potato, pleed and cut into cube sizes
* 1.5 litre soup stock
* 1 Teaspoon cucumin
* 1 Tablespoon chilli powder ( if you like hot & spicy)
* Salt according to your taste>
Method

To cook the Alu Tama, the pressure cooker is preffered. But if you don't have the pressure cooker, you can also use the normal cooking pot. Heat the oil in the pressure cooker or pot, add the potato and beans, fry it for 5 minutes and stir it occassinally. Give the soup stock into the pressure cooker (pot), add salt, cucumin, turmeric and cooked it untill the pressure cooker whistle or 30 minutes in pot.

Heat the extra pan with oil. Add the chopped onion, stir it for 2-3 minutes and add the bamboo shoot with some salt. Add tomato and cooked the bamboo shoot until it is ready.

Add the cooked bamboo shoots from the pan into the soup and cooked it for 10 mintues.