Thursday, May 10, 2007

Aloo Rassa: Aigo style

Vegetables: Potatoes, onions, tomatoes, green chilies, coconut, ginger, coriander leaves.

Other ingredients: Oil, mustard, cumin, turmeric, salt, sugar & curry leaves.

Preparation: Peel and cut potatoes into medium size pieces. Cut onion into large pieces. Cut tomatoes into small pieces

Masala: Grind to paste coconut, green chilies, ginger, turmeric, salt & sugar

Procedure :

1: In a pan add little oil and heat it. When oil is smoking add mustard seed, cumin seeds, curry leaves.

2: When mustard crackles add chopped onion and cook for few minutes.

3: Then add the ground masala and fry for few minutes.

4: Then add chopped tomatoes and cook for few minutes.

5: Finally add potato pieces and cook for few minutes. Add enough water and cook on slow fire until potato are just done.

Note: Tomatoes in US are sweet unlike those in India. If you want better taste. add little tamarind pulp .

Once again you have to balance quantities of salt, sugar & tamarind to get perfect taste & flavor.

This Rassa is will not be very think in consistency.

You can add cauliflower, green peas also if you like.

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