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- noun
potato
Etymologies
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Examples
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In many restaurants, saag aloo is a very creamy dish, with pureed, somewhat overcooked spinach in a somewhat spicy dairy-based sauce, with chunks of boiled white potato dotted throughout.
Tigers & Strawberries » One Potato, Two Potato, Red Potato, Blue Potato 2005
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Weird that in Hindi, aloo is not plum, but potato.
apricocious tannaz 2006
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Weird that in Hindi, aloo is not plum, but potato.
Archive 2006-07-01 tannaz 2006
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Maybe it's called aloo poshto - because of the poppy seeds? not sure. i may be wrong. but really what's in a name?
Rheel Dhoh Meera 2008
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Meera these burgers are healthy and wow you made a patti with just one small aloo, that is something for me, I cant resist dropping in a coupla more!
Vegtable Burger - Cooking Light Meera 2008
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(beads), shoongowyaloo (big beads), etc. Persons are named usually after some animate or inanimate object, and in repeating to you their own or some one else's name they usually affix the word aloo, as ishuark is a black salmon and also a man's name, but in mentioning the name they always say Ishuark-aloo, though such ceremony is not indulged in on ordinary occasions.
Schwatka's Search 1869
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Blondie and Brownie are big fans of two of the Friday specials at Minar (on 46th btw. 5+6th) … a cilantro chicken (which was highly recommended on Menupages) and their dum aloo (a potato curry.)
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The food is mainly Gujarati and though there are lots of familiar dishes on the menu samosa, biriyani, aloo gobi, this is proper regional Indian cuisine – a cut above the usual brown-mess curry fare.
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On the working side, everyone's got their own business in India whether it's selling chole baturas or aloo tikkas on the side of the road or something else.
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At Spice Fusion, the kati roll is for take-out only and they offer four different options for fillings: chicken, lamb, aloo (potato), and paneer (cheese).
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