Aloo means potato, and the word tikki means a small cutlet or croquette.
Popular street foods include aloo pie, doubles, and dal puri served wrapped around a curry, commonly goat, and bakes and fish cakes.
Saag aloo is commonly served hot, and topped with ghee (clarified butter).
Aloo mutter is also available in ready-to-eat packets which need to be heated and served.
In their local dialect, they call it "kuri aloo", meaning wood potato.
The most popular is "aloo pitika -" (mashed potatoes) garnished with raw onions, mustard oil, green chillies and sometimes boiled eggs.
Popular lunch dishes may include "aloo gosht" (meat and potato curry) or any vegetable with mutton.
It consists of potatoes (aloo) cooked with meat (gosht), usually lamb or mutton, in a stew-like shorba gravy.
