Aloo Jeera

Saturday, January 24, 2009

This is very easy to make. No need to keep stirring in a pan and keep watching all the time to make sure it will not burn.

Here is the recipe
Ingredients

4 medium Potatoes chopped thin and long along with skin
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 teaspoon red chilli powder
1 teaspoon coriander powder
salt to taste
1 Tablespoon oil
Method

1) Add oil and cumin seeds to the microwave safe container and heat at high for 1 min

2) Now add chopped potato and chilli, coriander and turmeric powders along with salt and mix them nicely and cover and cook in microwave until it is cooked. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

You can use this as a side dish with rice or Rotis/chapathis.

It got cooked in 12 mins for me and i just stirred once inbetween. It turned out very tasty and I just spent less than 5 mins totally.

Tips

I used a big rectangular shaped microwave safe container which has cover so that all the potato pieces are separate and will cook evenly and also no need to stir many times in between to allow the pieces at the bottom to cook.

You can add paprika(mild chilli powder) instead of chilli powder and can give kids as it is.