Aloo may refer to:
Food
*Aloo, a South Asian term for
potato
The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...
es, found in the names of a number of dishes:
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Aloo gobi
Aloo gobi, alu gobi or aloo gobhi () is a vegetarian dish from the Indian subcontinent made with potatoes (''aloo''), cauliflower (''gobhi''), and Indian spices. It is popular in Indian cuisine. It is yellowish in colour due to the use of turme ...
, potatoes and cauliflower
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Aloo gosht
Aloo gosht ( hi, आलू गोश्त, ur}, bn, আলু গোশ্ত ''Alu göshto'', as, আলু গোছ ''Alu güs'') is a meat curry, and is a popular dish in North Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi cuisine. It consists o ...
, potatoes and meat in shorba
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Aloo mutter
Aloo mutter (also spelled ''aloo mattar'' or ''aloo matar'' or ''alu'') is a vegetarian North Indian dish from the Indian subcontinent which is made from potatoes (''Aloo'') and peas (''mattar'') in a mildly spiced creamy tomato based gravy. I ...
, potatoes and peas in tomato gravy
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Aloo paratha, an unleavened bread stuffed with mashed potatoes
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Aloo pie
An aloo pie is a fried dumpling popular in the cuisine of Trinidad and Tobago. It is a soft, fried pastry made from flour and water, and filled with boiled, spiced and mashed potatoes (''aloo'' being the Hindi word for "potato") and other vegetabl ...
, a fried pastry filled with potatoes and vegetables
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Aloo tikki, deep fried potato patties with peas and spices
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Dum aloo
Dum Aloo (also spelled as Dam Aloo, hi, दम आलू, translit=dam ālū) or Aloor Dum ( bn, আলুর দম, translit=ālūr dam) is a potato-based curry dish. ''Dum'' means slow-cooked, and ''aloo'' is potato. It is a part of the tr ...
, fried potatoes with gravy
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Saag
Saag (), also spelled sag or saga, is an Indian leaf vegetable dish eaten with bread such as roti or naan, or in some regions with rice. Saag can be made from spinach, mustard greens, collard greens, basella, finely chopped broccoli or other ...
aloo, fried potatoes with spinach (palak) or fenugreek (methi) curry
People
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Aloo Jal Chibber (fl. 1970s), Indian politician from Maharashtra
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Paul Alo'o
Paul Alo'o Efoulou (born 12 November 1983) is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a striker and manager.
International career
Paul Alo'o made his debut for the Cameroon national team on 28 March 2009 against Togo in a qu ...
(born 1983), Cameroonian professional footballer
Other uses
* Chuck Aloo, a
character in ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' parody segment "60", played by Andy Blitz
* Rex Aloo, a title referring to
Coroticus, one of the kings of Strathclyde
See also
*
Alu (disambiguation)
ALU, Alu or alu may refer to:
Computing and science
;Computing
*Arithmetic logic unit, a digital electronic circuit
;Biology
* Alu sequence, a type of short stretch of DNA
*''Arthrobacter luteus'', a bacterium
Organizations
* Abraham Lincoln U ...
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Alo (disambiguation)
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Alou (disambiguation)
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