Potato is a wonderful vegetable either we can like to eat with rice or roti.We can prepare many dishes with using this vegetable.This is children favourite vegetable also.Adding green leaves like mint,curry and coriander leaves gives green colour to the recipe.Iam not adding any masala.But no compromise in the taste of the curry equal to masala recipes. Of course we can prepare this recipe not only for meals or roti but also make this one for snacks like samosa curry and alu dosa.
Ingredients
| potatoes | 1/4 kg |
| onion | 1 |
| green chillies | 5 |
| garlic | 5 cloves |
| ginger | 1 inch piece |
| mint leaves | 1 cup |
| curry leaves | few |
| coriader leaves | 1/2 cup |
| oil | 2 spoons |
| mustard seeds | 1/4 spoon |
| cumin seeds | 1/4 spoon |
| chana dal | 1/2 spoon |
| turmeric | 1/4 spoon |
| salt | to taste |
Preparation
Wash potatoes with water then cut into 2 pieces and put them in pressure cooker or cooking vessel and add 2 cups of water and cook for 3 whistles or boil potatoes till they become tender.
When the boil potatoes become to room temperature then peel the layer and cut the potatoes into medium size pieces or mash them.
Wash mint leaves,curry leaves and coriander leaves and cut coriander leaves into small pieces.
Wash onion,green chillies,ginger with water.
Cut onions into small pieces.
Peel the ginger and clean once again and cut into small pieces.
Cut green chillies into pieces.
Remove layer of garlic cloves.
Take a mixie jar add ginger pieces,garlic cloves and green chilli pieces and make a fine paste.
Method
1.Take a kadai and put on the flame.
2.When kadai heated add oil .
3.When oil is heated add mustard seeds and fry till they splutter.
4.Then add cumin seeds and chana dal and fry till dal become golden colour.
5.Add curry leaves and add chopped onions and fry till they become golden colour.
6.Add green chilli paste and fry till remove the raw smell.
7.Then add mint leaves and fry for 3 minutes.
8.Add potato pieces ,turmeric and salt and saute well.
9.Fry for 5 to 8 minutes in low flame.
10.Taste the curry if salt is enough or not.If not add some more salt and saute well.
11.Finally add finely chopped coriander leaves and saute well and put off the flame.
12.Green potato fry is ready to eat with chapathi or steam rice.
Enjoy......
Keep in the mind
Do not add red chilli powder.It can change the colour of curry.Only add green chilli paste.
Adding mint leaves,curry leaves,coriander leaves and green chilli paste makes the curry to green colour.
