Recipe- Baby Potato Fry For Lunch

Simple and delicious Baby potato fry made with small potatoes and basic spices. Baby potato is an interesting variety to cook and best suited for kids’ meals. Pack this yummy roast with simple curd rice or bisibelebath for lunch. In fact, this baby potato fry is perfectly suitable for roti & chapati and pulav varieties also.

Ingredients

500 g baby potatoes
3 tbsp oil
¾ tsp cumin seeds
¾ tsp salt
¾ tsp chilli powder
1/8 tsp turmeric powder
½ tsp coriander powder
Few curry leaves
¼ tsp garam masala
½ tsp sesame seeds
Water to cook potatoes

Method

* Wash the potatoes well to remove the dirt and soil.

* Pressure cook with enough water for just two whistles.

* Once cooked peel the potatoes and keep ready. You may choose to roast potatoes with skin-on but for better spicy aloo roast it is better to peel off.

* Heat oil in a flat pan, add cumin seeds and let them crackle.

* Keep the heat source to a low setting, add salt, chilli powder, turmeric powder and coriander powder.

* Also, add curry leaves and saute the masala powders for few seconds in low heat.

* Now add the cooked baby potatoes and mix well with the masalas.

* Cover the pan with a lid and let the potatoes roast in the masalas for five to ten minutes in low heat.

* Open lid, add garam masala and white sesame seeds and mix well.

* Saute a few minutes and switch off.

* Serve with sambar rice, bisibelebath and rasam rice. Goes well with pulav varieties and roti also.