Most of the people of Bangladesh and few parts of South Asian countries like mashed items with hot boiled rice.
Mashed Potatoes with Grilled Red Chillies
Bhortas are the simplest and the ultimate comfort food of Bangladesh served with rice. Bhortas are delicious, smooth, fiery and flavorful mashed goodies made with mustard oil, onions, garlic and red chilies. Most veggies or fish both fresh and dried can be mashed with oil, onions, garlic, chilies and occasional cilantro or lemon juice and turned into a bhorta. Depending on the type, for each bite of bhorta, you can expect to have the crunch of sliced onion or the delight of golden caramelized onion, sharpness of chili, and aroma of roasted garlic. Reference
The making of each mashed items is different but easy.
There are several items could be mashed and most popular are listed below-
- Mashed Potatoes
- Mashed Red Lentils
- Mashed small Prawns
- Mashed grilled Aubergine
- Mashed Fennel Flower
- Mashed Red Chilli with onion
- Mashed Green Chilli with Garlic
- Mashed Maxican Coriander
- Mashed Kharkol leaves
- Tomato, Taki Fish, Chapila along with other shutki (dried fish) mashed with red or green chili and many more.
Most of the mashed items (Bhorta/Vorta) could be made with blender but if you have opportunities to test manually made (hand made) mashed items just don't miss it!