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Garakupi is a Bengali word adopted from old man many years ago. Garakupi had its earlier name "Garapota" but it is no more today. But something can be understood by this word pota is meant that something digging into soil and kupi has the same meaning to pota. So Gara may be a thing and it is dug into soil.
The potato was the first domesticated root vegetable in the region of modern-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia [1] between 8000 and 5000 BC. [2] Cultivation of potatoes in South America may go back 10,000 years, [ 3 ] but tubers do not preserve well in the archaeological record, making identification difficult.
The potato (/ p ə ˈ t eɪ t oʊ /) is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile.
Potatoes, chickpeas, onions, chillies Chotpoti ( Bengali : চটপটি Côṭpôṭi ), is a Bengali street food popular in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India , mostly in urban areas . [ 2 ] [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The word 'chotpoti' translates to ' spicy ' (as in, having many different spices, not simply 'hot').
Potato (Aloo) Tomato (Tamatar) Okra (Bhindi) Cauliflower (Phool Gobhi) Taro (Arbi). Most of the food items which define modern North Indian and Subcontinental cooking have origins inside the Indian subcontinent though many foods that are now a part of them are based on fruits and vegetables that originated outside the Indian subcontinent.
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Food historian Lois Ellen Frank calls potatoes, tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, chili, cacao, and vanilla the "magic eight" ingredients that were found and used only in the Americas before 1492 and were taken via the Columbian Exchange back to the Old World, dramatically transforming the cuisine there. [17] [18] [19] According to Frank, [20]
"Aloo" means potato, and the word "chap" means a small cutlet fritters or croquette in Bengali. It is served hot and warm along with muri (puffed rice), green chilies, and sometimes sauce and salads. Aloor chop is a Ramadan staple in Bangladesh along with beguni. It is a vegetarian alternative, and an equivalent of aloo tikki. [1]