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🍲 Potato Curry (Aloo Masala)

Indian · 9 ingredients · 7 steps

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Potato masala (Tamil: uralai kizhangu masala) is a potato dish often served alongside roti or folded inside a dosa. The dosa and aloo masala combination, widely eaten in South India, is known as masala dosa. Coconut chutney is a common accompaniment.

Potato Curry (Aloo Masala)
Potato Curry (Aloo Masala) — photograph by Thamizhpparithi Maari, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia.
20 minutes4-63
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Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • ½ teaspoon mustard seed
  • ½ tablespoon chana dhal (optional)
  • 5 curry leaves
  • 1 medium onion, chopped thin
  • 4-5 split green chillies
  • 4 large potatoes, cubed and par-boiled
  • 1 pinch of turmeric powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt

Method

  1. Heat oil.
  2. Sautée the mustard seed first, then add chana dhal, curry leaves, onion and chillies.
  3. Fry until the onions begin to change color.
  4. Add potatoes.
  5. Sprinkle the turmeric evenly and stir well to mix all the ingredients
  6. Cover and cook on a medium flame for about 5 minutes, stirring well, until the potatoes become very soft and somewhat mashed.
  7. Season with salt to taste.
Where this came from. Adapted from Potato Curry (Aloo Masala) in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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