Potato Fry

I love potato fry from my childhood. There are many varieties to cook Potato fry and all the types are my favorite. When I was about to cut the potatoes, I was thinking to cook the other type of fry that goes well with plain dal or dosa. Somehow, I ended up making this for dinner.

There is no need to add green chillies for this. Add more pepper powder instead of green chillies. It tastes unique when cooked with only pepper but no chillies. As I have already cut the chillies, I used them in this recipe.

Ingredients:

Potatoes : 8 medium size
Oil : 4 spoons
Mustard seeds : 1 tsp
Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
Urad dal : 1tsp
Chana dal : 1 tsp
Curry leaves : handful
Pepper powder : 1 tsp
Salt : to taste
Green chillies : 5
Crushed garlic : 2 cloves
Cilantro : 1/4 cup finely cut
Onion : 1 small size finely cut

Method :

Wash potatoes and dice them. Put it in cold water to get rid of starch and also to avoid them getting oxidised.

Heat oil in a pan.

You may need more oil for this particular method as potato sticks to the pan. In order to avoid this, instead  of using more oil, I sprinkled 1/4 cup of water while frying the potatoes.

Add mustard, cumin seeds. Let it pop.

Add chana, urad dal. Let it turn brown.

Add curry leaves.

Add onion, green chillies and saute it.

Add diced potato and mix well. Cook for few min.

Add salt, sprinkle water if required. Close the lid.

Just before potatoes are getting cooked well, add crushed garlic, pepper and cilantro.

Mix well. Cook for 2 min. Switch off the stove.