Aloo ke Gutke

Spiced dry potato chunks — boiled potatoes cut into rough pieces and cooked in a dry tawa in oil or ghee with cumin seeds, dried red chilli, turmeric, coriander powder, and fresh green chilli until the potatoes develop a light golden crust on all sides. Finished with fresh coriander and a squeeze of lime. No gravy, no onion — the simplest possible preparation of the humble potato elevated by the pungent hill spices and the dry-frying technique. The most famous and beloved Garhwali dish, sold at every dhaba on the Char Dham pilgrimage routes and at tea stalls across Uttarakhand.