Potato Fry Aloo bhaja Bengali style
From chandrima 15 years ago
- 5 minutes to make
- Serves 4
This is quick potato stir fry Bengali style. Part of daily food. Goes well with Dals or lentils. Served hot with Rotis, steamed Rice, pooris.
Ingredients
- 4 potatoes large size, Cut in small cubes shopping list
- 6 garlic cloves, Smashed and chopped coarsely shopping list
- 1 dry red chilly shopping list
- 1 tsp black cumin seed shopping list
- 1 medium onion coarsely chopped shopping list
- 3 green chilly finely chopped (optional) shopping list
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder shopping list
- 3 tbsp oil for frying (as per requirement for pan fry) shopping list
- salt to taste shopping list
- sugar to taste shopping list
How to make it
- Heat oil in a flat pan. We usually use an utensil called KADAHI, which deep in the middle.Looks somewhat like a salad mixing bowl.
- Add the Dry red chilly breaking in 2 halves
- when the chilly is fried to blackish red.
- Put the black cumin seed fry for 30 secs
- Now add the Onions and garlic fry till transclucent in colour
- Now add the turmeric powder and the green chillies
- Add 1/6 tsp of sugar
- Add the cubes of potatoes and fry till tender on high for 20 secs and on low flame till tender.
- Add salt to taste
- Increase the flame and stir fry for 1 mins.
- Serve with steam rice, rotis, pita bread.
- Granish with some chopped coriander leaf.
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This sounds really good to me and I'm always looking for new ways to prepare potatoes. Great post and a high 5.
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Love this !
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Very nice. Love the flavors......
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