About this dish
A tangy soup or curry of potato and fermented bamboo shoots, often with black-eyed peas.
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Ingredients
🥔3 potatoes, cubed
🎋1 cup fermented bamboo shoots
🫘1 cup black-eyed peas, cooked
🍅2 tomatoes, chopped
🟡1/2 tsp turmeric
Method
Serves 21
Sauté onion and tomato with turmeric until softened.2
Add the potatoes and a little water, and simmer until nearly tender.3
Add the bamboo shoots and black-eyed peas, and continue simmering until everything is cooked through.4
Season with salt and chili to taste.5
Serve hot with rice.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Aloo tama is a distinctive Nepali dish, valued for the unique sour flavor of fermented bamboo shoots.
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