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.

Sandwich with mashed Potato

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

I made a sandwich with 8 grain bread and mashed potato. This is really quick and tasty too, use wheat bread instead of white for better health even though white tastes better than wheat

For mashed Potato curry
around 6 small potatoes cooked and skin peeled (I pressure cooked)
1 medium size onion chopped
3 green chillies chopped
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
pinch of asafoetida
1 teaspoon oil
1 teaspoon coriander powder
salt to taste
Method

1) mash the potatoes and mix with salt and coriander powder and keep aside

2) Heat Oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds, add asafoetida, onions, green chillies and turmeric powder and fry until onions are transparent. This will take around 5 mins

3) Add the mashed potato and mix and fry for 2 to 3 mins and use this as a filling for sandwich

Making sandwich
1) spread the potato to one slice and cover with the other slice and keep in sandwich maker until they are done. I like to toast nicely until the bread turns brown but you can reduce based on your taste

2) just toast in a pan with some butter incase if you don't have a sandwich maker.