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potato fry recipe
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potato fry recipe | chettinad potato fry | baby potato fry

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings: 4
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: chettinad, Indian, South Indian

Ingredients
  

For Roasting and grinding:
  • 2 tsp coriander seeds
  • 1 Kashmiri red chilly
  • ½ tsp cumin
  • ½ tsp fennel
  • 2 cloves
  • 1 inch cinnamon
  • 1 cardamom
  • ½ tsp black pepper
  • few curry leaves
  • 1 tbsp dry coconut
For making potato fry:
  • 3 tbsp oil
  • ½ tsp cumin seeds
  • few curry leaves
  • 2 green chilly
  • 100 gram shallots(chopped) (or 1 onion)
  • 1 tbsp ginger garlic crushed (or paste)
  • 500 gram potatoes(boiled)
  • 1 tomato (chopped)
  • ¼ tsp turmeric powder
  • salt to taste
  • coriander leaves for garnish

Method
 

To boil the potatoes:
  1. In a pressure cooker add in washed potato and 1 tsp of salt and 2 cups of water
  2. Pressure cook for 2 whistles
  3. After pressure released naturally, take the potatoes and peel off and keep aside
For roasting and grinding:
  1. In a pan, add in 2 tsp of coriander seeds, 1 Kashmiri red chilly, ½ tsp cumin, ½ tsp fennel, 1- inch cinnamon, 2 cloves, 1 cardamom, ½ tsp black pepper, few curry leaves, Fry it for a while in low flame
  2. Turn off the flame, Let this mixture to cool
  3. Then transfer this roasted mixture into a blender jar,
  4. then add 1 tbsp of dry coconut
  5. Blend into a fine powder
For making potato fry:
  1. Heat 3 tbsp of oil in a pan, add ½ tsp of cumin seeds, let it crackle.
  2. Then add 2 green chilly, few curry leaves
  3. Next, add onion chopped, saute
  4. Then 1 tbsp of ginger garlic paste, add a little salt, saute it well until onion becomes slightly golden brown
  5. Put chopped tomato and keep the flame low to cook the tomato becomes mashy.
  6. Add in turmeric powder, salt, ground masala powder, give a good mix
  7. Next, add in boiled potatoes, keep the flame until this mixture becomes dry
  8. turn off the flame, garnish with coriander leaves.