Spicy Potato 65

Spicy Potato 65 is a hot and spicy vegetarian dish.

Here fried crispy potatoes are cooked with  Hyderabadi flavor and spices. It’s a great starter to serve and are best accompanied with any type of rice.

Ingredients: 

• Medium sized potatoes – 5
• Chopped garlic: 5-6 cloves
• Ginger & Garlic Paste – 1/2 tbsp
• Slited green chilies – 3
• Red chili – 2-3
• Turmeric powder – 1 tbsp
• Red chili powder – 3/4 tsp
• Fresh curry leaves – 8-10
• Fresh curd – 1/2 cup
• Lemon juice of  1 lemon
• Chopped cilantro – 3 tbsp
• Red color: 1 tsp (optional)
• Ajinamoto – 1/2 tsp (optional)
• Salt – as required
• Oil – enough to deep fry

For batter:

• Turmeric powder: 1/2 tsp
• Red chili powder – 1 tsp
• Ginger – 1/2 tbsp
• Chopped garlic: 2-3 cloves
• Cornflour – 4 tbsp
• Fresh curd – 3-4 tbsp
• Refined flour – 2 tbsp
• Salt – To taste

Method:

• Parboil the potatoes. Peel the outer skin and cut them into cubes.
• Add Turmeric powder, Red chili powder, Corn flour, Refined flour, half cup of curd, lime juice and salt to the potato pieces and mix them well.
• Heat the oil in a wok.
• Place the potato pieces one by one carefully so that it does not stick to each other.
• Fry them until they turn to golden brown and crispy.
• Now it’s time to make gravy. So, for that Heat 2 tbsp oil in another pan.
• Add the chopped garlic and fry a bit.
• Put curry leaves, green chilies and red chilies.  Sauté it for few seconds.
• Now beat the yogurt with a little salt and add it to the pan. At this moment, you can also drop little red color.
• When gravy becomes thick, add fried potatoes, lime juice and ajinamoto in it.
• Finally garnish it with chopped cilantro.
• So, tan ta tan… it’s ready to serve.