Navratri Recipe- Fasting Special Aloo Mewawale

A good meal always brings people together, spreads smiles, ignites conversations and warms hearts. Hospitality is not about showing off ones cooking skills or an elaborate menu, it’s about opening up your heart and home to your guests, and sharing the best of what you can offer. It can be something as simple, yet exquisite as these Aloo mewawale. Tiny bites, loaded with love and flavour.

A popular side dish, the tang of the tomato matched with the sweetness of the boiled potato and spices, works seamlessly with rice and Indian flatbreads.

Ingredients

1 cup oil
1 tblsp ginger-garlic paste
salt to taste
12 medium potatoes, peeled
1 tsp cumin seeds
1/2 cup coriander leaves, cut
4 tbsps. cream
1 tblsp chilli powder
1 tblsp sugar
1 tsp garam masala
1/2 cup mixed almonds and pistachios, coarsely ground
3 tomatoes pureed
4 onions, chopped, ground
1 tsp turmeric powder

Method

* Bore a hole into each potato.

* Stuff with nuts mixed with salt and a few coriander leaves.

* Close with potato pieces.

* Heat up oil and fry 2 or 3 potatoes at a time till browned.

* Remove and reserve.

* In the same oil, put in cumin seeds.

* When they pop, mix in onion paste and fry till brown.

* Then mix in powdered spices, tomato and ginger-garlic paste.

* Fry till oil separates from the paste, mix in potatoes and one and a half cup of hot water.

* Simmer, adding cream, salt and sugar till potatoes are cooked and the gravy is well blended.