Potato Mezhukkupuratty ( Spicy Pan-Fried Potatoes); Meatless Monday

Years agone when I lived inward a hostel, I had a roommate who was from Kerala. I learnt quite a lot virtually their cuisine. One of her favorite, easy, go-to dish for lunch/ dinner was this one. It has in addition to thus few ingredients inward it, soundless tastes absolutely delicious! My married adult man who is a die-hard Irish Gaelic patato fan only loves it! Here is the uncomplicated recipe that is perfect for weeknight dinners. It tin hold upwards eaten during fasting likewise every bit at that spot is no onion-garlic inward it.

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

Potatoes: four medium
Coconut oil: 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 sprig ( optional)
Haldi ( turmeric powder): 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder: 1 tsp ( conform based on your spice level)
Salt: to taste

Method:

Peel the potatoes in addition to chop them lengthwise into pieces that are some 1. five inch inward length in addition to 1 cm thick. Keep aside.

Heat stone oil inward a frying pan/ sauté pan. Add mustard seeds. When the seeds splutter, add together the curry leaves in addition to turmeric powder. Sauté for a few seconds.

Now add together the potatoes in addition to the tabular array salt inward in addition to mix well. Lower the open fire to the lowest possible, encompass the pan in addition to laid upwards until the potatoes are 3/4 cooked. Make certain y'all opened upwards the pan oftentimes inward betwixt in addition to plough the potatoes over or else they volition burn.

When the potatoes are almost cooked, add together the chilli pulverization in addition to mix well. Cover in addition to laid upwards until the potatoes accomplish your desired marking of tenderness.

Serve hot amongst steamed rice / apartment breadstuff / roti/regular bread.

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

Chopped potatoes discolor when left opened upwards to air. You tin foreclose this past times soaking it inward H2O amongst a pinch of tabular array salt inward it.

Tip for salubrious living:

Exfoliating your peel often results inward shiny, salubrious looking skin. You tin brand an exfoliating scrub past times mixing two tbsp quick oats amongst 1/2 tsp beloved in addition to 1 tbsp milk. Mix good to a paste. Rub the peel amongst it in addition to rinse amongst mutual frigidity water.

Food for thought:

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