Khasta Aloo (Spicy Pan Fried Potatoes)

"Interesting variation on basic pan fries. Vary the hot stuff to taste. Ghee is definitely preferred but use oil/butter mix if you are stuck. Found the recipe on an Indian mail order website (www.indianfoodsco.com). Prep time assumes you have some potatoes cooked and room temperature already."
 
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Ready In:
17mins
Ingredients:
11
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat ghee in large non-stick pan until shimmering (I have the pan on full-blast for most of this recipe).
  • Add cumin and stir until fragrant.
  • Add coriander, tumeric, ground chile, green chile and ginger and stir, making a hot paste.
  • Dump in potatoes and toss until coated on all sides (will be fairly dry).
  • Move around into one layer and leave alone for a minute, allowing some crust to form. Turn and repeat until crusted to your liking.
  • Remove from heat, squeeze lime juice over top,sprinkle salt and toss to blend.
  • Pour into serving dish and garnish with cilantro.
  • Serves 4 but I just ate most of it as a lunch.

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Reviews

  1. These were quite good! Made them for dinner last night. I wasn't convinced the potatoes would hold together, nor was I so sure I could get a crust to form, but everything turned out fine! Okay, some of the crust fell off the potatoes but that was okay since I like spicier stuff than my BF so I just ate that part myself:D BF liked his potatoes very much too. I did not have cumin seeds so I used cumin powder and don't know about ghee so I used oil and butter. Only used 1 jalapeno pepper, next time I would use more. Thanks very much Spicy Doc!
     
  2. These are wonderful! Co-incidentally, I had this for dinner last night. I used mustard seeds instead of cumin seeds, oil instead of ghee(I'm not a ghee fan but slowly will try to use it in my cooking instead of oil- been thinking on this this past year and learnt amazing things about ghee) and I also used 1/2 tsp. of chat masala powder. Normally, I would have used curry powder, but since I have run out of it, I decided to add some chat masala for a nice tanginess to the potatoes. This turned out very well. At the end, after this was ready to serve, I stirred in some yoghurt and then had this over rice. Yummy stuff!
     
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I live in a town about 1 hr outside of Toronto. I have 2 toddler sons and a wife (who is past toddling) at home. I like to cook, my wife doesn't so I have a free rein in the kitchen. Cooking is probably my main hobby, except in Summer, when golf dominates. I LOVE spicy foods but DW doesn't, so I either cook separate dishes or make something I can spice up on my own plate. my current favorite cookbook is 'Some Like It Hot' by Clifford A. Wright--my first posting is from this book. My pet peeve is when someone turns up their nose at a new dish before actually trying it--she is getting better tho :) Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the words YUM or YUMMY make my skin crawl.
 
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