Aloo jeera recipe | How to make potato fry | Alugadde jeerige palya
By Latha on April 13th, 2023
Aloo jeera or potato fry recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. Aloo jeera is a tasty sidedish or snacks recipe prepared using potatoes, cumin seeds and few other spices. This is a very easy and tasty recipe. You can serve this as a side dish along with rice or chapati. Or serve it like a snack.
I have posted many potato recipes on this website like potato rice, potato-onion sambar, potato mosaru bajji, potato palya and sagu, potato paratha, potato bonda, sun dried potato chips, regular potato chips, aloo gobi and aloo-carrot paratha recipes.
Potato is a very tasty vegetable. Potato is very good for growing kids. I got this recipe from a Konkani friend. However later I came to know that the turmeric powder is generally not used in this recipe. So I have marked turmeric powder as optional. Also no need to add water, if you can manage to cook the potatoes without water. If you are a garlic lover, then you can replace the asafoetida with crushed garlic. If you want to decorate your potato talasani, you can do it with grated coconut and coriander leaves. I haven't added coconut and coriander leaves as it is not added in the original recipe. Konkani recipes are so unique and simple. They don't overload the recipes with too many ingredients. This potato upkari is best paired with rice and dalithoy, a konkani style dal.
You can find many palya or stir fry recipes on this website like kosu or cabbage palya, thondekai palya, southekai palya, sorekai palya, bendekayi or ladies finger palya, bittergourd sweet curry, thondekai palya, Mixed vegetable palya, beans palya, badanekayi palya, Hagalakayi palya, Boodu kumbalakai or ash gourd palya and north karnataka special zunka vadi recipes.
I have made a video on this recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 5 min
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 4
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 3 medium sized potatoes
- 2 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 green chilli (adjust as per your taste)
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- Big pinch of hing or asafoetida
- 1/2 tsp spicy red chili powder
- 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
- 1/2 tsp lemon juice (optional)
- Salt as per your taste
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
Instructions for making aloo jeera or potato fry:
- Boil and peel 3 medium sized potatoes. Please note, I have added little salt while boiling the potatoes.
- Chop them into cubes.
- In a pan heat a tbsp of oil. Add cumin seeds and slit green chillies.
- Wait until cumin seeds splutter. Add in chopped potatoes and saute.
- Add in chilli powder, turmeric and asfoetida.
- Give a quick mix.
- Add in chopped coriander leaves and lemon juice. Please note, lemon juice is optional. Give a quick mix.
- Add in salt as per taste. Give a quick mix and switch off the stove. Serve it with chapati or roti. Or serve it like a starter.
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