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Floury potatoes boil in their skins, then mash dry
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Floury potatoes boil in their skins, then mash dry

Alur chop (alu meaning potato, chop being a Bengali loan-word for a fried cutlet, inherited from the British "chop") is…

Goat meat (bone-in pieces, ideally) simmers in water with onion, garlic, bay, salt and bouillon till tender (45 min)

The Burmese yellow split-pea fritter, sold by street vendors in hot oil-spattered cones of newspaper across Yangon's evening markets

Beguni (from begun, the Bengali word for brinjal/eggplant) is the simplest of the great Bengali pakoras: long thin…

Onion is softened slowly in olive oil 15 minutes

The Burmese take on the South Asian samosa, with a thinner, crisper pastry and a milder filling than its Indian cousin

Two-stage flavour build: first a spice infusion (whole spices soaked briefly in water, then simmered slowly in vegetable…

Dried urad dal (white, sometimes labelled "white lentils" or "split urad") soaks overnight, then blends with ginger…

Pork belly is simmered until tender, prawns are poached briefly, and vermicelli is cooked just al dente

A hot-water dough - flour mixed with water (just-boiled) - for a tender, slightly stretchy wrapper that doesn't dry out

Chicken thighs (boneless, skin-on for the best result) are cut into 4 cm pieces and marinated for 30 minutes in a…

A simple flour-water-oil dough rests for 1 hour (gluten relaxes; will roll paper-thin)

The sauce (the technical heart of the dish) reduces palm sugar, fish sauce, tamarind paste, water, ginger and dried…

Vegetables, swede, carrot, gherkins, onion, cauliflower, dice into small (4 mm) cubes

Pork shoulder (uncured, fatty) and a small amount of bacon are chopped into 5 mm dice (not minced, the texture is key)