Green Potato Recipe

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.

Potato fry (mudda kura)

Ingredients

potatoes	1/4 kg
onion	1 medium size
green chillies	3
oil	2 spoons
mustard seeds	1/4 spoon
cumin seeds	1/4 spoon
urad dal	1/4 spoon
chana dal	1/4 spoon
curry leaves	some
ginger garlic paste	1/2 spoon
turmeric	pinch
salt	to taste
red chilli  powder	1 spoon
coriander leaves	some

Method
 wash potatoes with plenty of water because potato is root vegetable so should wash  more  water than normal vegetable.
cut potatoes into 4 pieces.
cut onions  and red chillies  into small pieces.
1.add  water (1/2 cup) in potato pieces and put in a medium flame boil till potatoes became soft.
2.after pototoes cooked .strain from water and peel the upper layer of potato pieces.cut into small pieces or mash the pieces.
3.add oil in a pan.
4.after heating the oil add  mustard seeds.when mustard seeds crackle add cumin seeds,dry chillies.
5.after cumin seeds fried add urad dal  and chana dal.
6.after dals became light golden colour add curry leaves.
7.add onion and green chillie pieces and fry till onion pieces became golden colour.
8.then add boiled potato pieces or mash potatoes.
9.add turmeric ,salt and red chilli powder.
10.mix all very well. and fry for 10 to15 minutes.
11.finally add coriander leaves and put off the flame.
serve hot.