Quick Potato Fry

This recipe is a quick and easy potato fry that can be made in minutes, but the taste is extraordinary.

Ingredients:

1. Potato - 2 large
2. Big Onion - 1 medium size
3. Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp
4. Turmeric powder - 14 tsp
5. Sambar Powder - 1 tsp
6. Curry leaves 
7. Mustard - 1/8 tsp
8. Cooling Oil - 1 tbsp
9. Salt as per your taste

Cooking Directions:

Wash the Potatoes nicely and Cut into Small cubes. In a frying pan add 1 tbsp of Oil add mustard followed by Onion and curry leaves.
Saute it for some time. Then add Ginger Garlic paste and saute it.

Add cubed Potatoes and saute it for 2 mins. Then add turmeric powder and Sambar powder.

Saute it for a minute. Now add water as required and Salt. Close the lid and cook it for about 5 to 7 mins

Open the lid and if you find any water. Let it dry with medium flame. 
Now it is ready to serve.

Potato Fried Rice

Those who are bored of having vegetable fried rice, can go for a light masala based potato fried rice. The addition of green peas gives an extra flavour to the fried rice. 

Ingredients:

1. Potato - 1 
2. Green peas - 1/2 cup
3. Onion -1
4. Bay leaf - 1 
5. Clove -1 
6. Cinnamon - 1/4 inch
7. Staranise - 1
8. Cardamom -1 
9. Red Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
10. Dhania Powder - 1 tsp
11. Jeera Powder - 1/2 tsp
12. Garam Masala Powder - 1 tsp

Cooking Method:

• In a Pan add Oil followed by bay leaf, cinnamon, clove, cardamom, star anise.
• Then add Onion and saute until it is cooked.
• Add Ginger Garlic paste. Saute it some more time.
• Now add Potatoes and green peas. Saute for 2 mins.
• Add Red chilli, Dhania Powder, Jeera Powder, Garam Masala Powders.
• Sprinkle some water. let the vegetables cook for some time.
• After it is cooked well, add the cooked rice and mix everything well.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.

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Now a tasty Potato fried rice is now ready for kids ... Enjoy with Onion Raita !!

Sweet Potato Chaat / Shakarkandi Chaat

I came to know about this Chaat recipe recently in a North Indian Wedding Reception held in Coimbatore. Initial startup of the dinner started with usual Chaat items and Soups. First I started with Chaat items and tasted this sweet potato Chaat. It was really yummy and tempting to eat another plate. There was a large queue for this Chaat. So I left that place and moved to have soup. After soup session I find only few people left in the queue and I ordered one more plate and asked him what was that spice mix..He couldn't explain and just said it is sweet potato. While tasting I could Identify half of the Ingredients used in that recipe. Still then I am not satisfied what could be the items used. The sweet spicy and tangy taste dominated my tongue and I filled half of my stomach with these sweet potatoes. I came home and searched in net...but could not find the complete Ingredients used in that. I made experiments with these sweet potatoes and some spices. To my Surprise I realized the exact taste of that Sweet Potato Chaat what I had in that Wedding. Wow!!! I found it!! It was Yummy n Superb!!!

Ingredients:

• Sweet Potatoes - 5 nos
• Lemon - 1/2 lemon of medium size
• Sugar Powder - 2 tbsp
• Red Chilli Powder - 1 tbsp
• Amchur / Dry mango Powder - 1 tbsp
• Cumin / Jeera Powder - 1/2 tbsp
• Chaat Masala Powder - 1tbsp
• Oil for deep frying

Cooking Method:

• Soak the sweet Potatoes in water for about 10 mins and wash thoroughly. 
• Cut into cubes and cook in steam for about 10 mins. I used Idly pan for cooking. Don't cook with water.
• After cooking check with the toothpick. Peel the skin of it. 
• In a frying pan add oil and fry these sweet potatoes until golden brown and crispy. Keep it in a separate bowl.

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• Keep ready with the spice powders Chilli powder, amchur powder, jeera powder and chaat masala powder, sugar powder and lemon.
• Take the fried sweet potatoes in a bowl squeeze the lemon all over the potatoes.
• Also sprinkle all the spice powders mentioned and sugar powder too. 
• Toss the bowl so that all the sweet potatoes well coated with the spice powders and lemon extract.
• Toss twice or thrice. 

Serve hot. It will be crispy spicy tangy and with sweet flavour. No need of any sides.