 Different types of bharta | |
| Type | savory |
|---|---|
| Region or state | Indian subcontinent |
| Serving temperature | served with rice or ruti |
| Main ingredients | mustard oil, onions and chillies with bharta elements |
| Variations | Aloo bhorta, baigan bharta, tamatar bharta, shutkir varta, narikel shutkir vorta |
Bhurta, vorta, bhorta, bharta or chokha[1] is a lightly fried mixture of mashed vegetables in the cuisine of the Indian subcontinent.[2]
Some variations of this dish are baingan bhurta and aloo bhurta.
- ^ Grierson (1885). Bihar Peasant Life: Being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the People of that Province. Bengal Secretariat Press.
- ^ Parida, Laxmi (2 April 2003). Purba: Feasts from the East: Oriya Cuisine from Eastern India. iUniverse. ISBN 0-595-26749-1. Retrieved 14 September 2009.