Tuesday 26 May 2015

Jeera Aloo / Potato with Cumin Seeds

Lets make a Punjabi dish!!!!
Ingredients

Potatoes: 3 big
Green Chilly: 2
Ginger: 1 inch piece
Coriander seeds: 1 Table Spoon
Cumin Seeds: 2 Tea Spoon
Red Chilly Powder: 1 Tea Spoon
Turmeric Powder: 1/4 Tea Spoon
Amchur Powder / Dry Mango Powder: 1/4 Tea Spoon
Oil: 3 Table Spoon
Salt
Water
Coriander Leaves

Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Method

Boil the potatoes till its cooked and peel off the skin and cut it into bite size pieces
Dry roast coriander seeds and 1 tea spoon cumin seeds separately and grind it to a coarse powder
Finely slice the ginger and slit the green chilly
To a pan pour oil and add 1 tea spoon of cumin seeds
Once it starts to splutter add slit green chilly and sliced ginger and saute for a few seconds
Reduce the flame and add coriander and cumin powder, red chilly powder, turmeric powder, amchur powder and salt
Stir for half a minute and the add the cubed potatoes and mix well
Roast on low flame for 8 to 10 minutes stirring in between.
Add coriander leaves and switch off the flame
Serve hot with rice or roti or as a snack or starter
Note:
Increase or decrease the spice levels as per your tolerance
Do not over cook the potatoes
Be careful while stirring the cooked potatoes.  

2 comments:


  1. Lots of great looking dishes here! I can't keep up with all the dishes I want to make...there's always so many good ones :)
    Restaurant in Laxmi Nagar

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    1. Dear Dhiraj Kumar,
      Thank you so much for such nice words. Appreciation from people like you is a great motivation for me.
      Thanks & Regards
      Anjali Abhilash

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