Author Notes: Who doesn’t love potatoes?This potato roast is made in South Indian style by deep frying the cooked potatoes and coated with a sauce .This sauce is made with shallots and sambar powder. Sambar powder is a important flavorful spice powder in South Indian kitchen.
—deepavijicooks
Serves: 3-4
Ingredients
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5
Medium Potato
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5
Shallots
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1
teaspoon Sambar Powder(available in all Indian stores)
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1/2
teaspoon Chili powder
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1/8
teaspoon fennel powder
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to deep fry
Oil
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to taste
Salt
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to garnish
chopped cilantro
Directions
- In a pot boil potatoes until tender.Peel the skin off and cut it into cubes.
- Heat oil for deep frying and cook until golden crisp
- Grind the shallots,sambar powder,chili powder,fennel powder,salt into a fine paste.(sprinkle little water if necessary)
- In a pan heat oil(fapprox 3teaspoon) and add the ground paste to it .Cook until oil oozes out.
- Add little water(approx 4-5 tbsp) and let it boil.
- Put the fried potatoes to it and cook for another 3 minutes .Toss the potatoes so that the sauce coats it well.
- Finally garnish with cilantro.
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