Aloo fry recipe | How to make potato snacks | Easy and quick alugadde side dish
By Latha on Feb 5th, 2025
Aloo fry or potato side dish recipe explained with step by step pictures and video. This Alugadde fry or potato starter is a very tasty recipe. It can be served as a snacks or a side dish. Alugadde fry or potato fry is prepared using potato, garlic, mustard, curry leaves, salt and spice powders. This is a very simple and quick recipe.
I have 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 have added both garlic and asafoetida in this recipe, however you are free to skip the garlic.
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: 15 min
Serves: 2
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 2 large potatoes
- 7 - 8 cloves of garlic
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- A big pinch hing or asafoetida
- 5 - 6 curry leaves
- 1 tsp red chili powder
- 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- 1/4 tsp garam masala
- Big pinch of turmeric powder
- Salt as per your taste
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
Instructions for making aloo fry or potato side dish:
- To beginwith, peel the potatoes.
- Chop them to wedges or any other shape of your choice.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan. Add the mustard seeds, wait until splutter and then add the chopped garlic. Fry the garlic for a while.
- Add the asafoetida.
- Followed by add the curry leaves.
- Also add the chopped potatoes. Fry them for 2 minutes.
- Add the salt, give it a quick mix and reduce the flame.
- Close the lid and cook it under low flame. Keep stirring it frequently.
- Cook or fry until potatoes are slightly brown and cooked.
- Add the spice powders like red chilli powder, cumin powder, garam masala and turmeric powder.
- Give it a good mix under low flame. Add the coriander leaves.
- Mix it again for a minute and switch off the stove.
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