Friday, July 9, 2010

Potato Podimas (Aloo Podimas)


I was planning to make chappathi for dinner and needed a side dish to go with. It's been a while since I made potato podimas. Potato podimas is a South Indian dish. My mom used to make it with chappathi and puri. I found this recipe in the blog Shanthi Krishnakumar's cookbook which is very similar to my mom's recipe. The difference here is that I used onions along with ginger and stir-fried chopped vegetables (carrot, green beans and peas) before adding the mashed potato. The dish came out great. The leaves and the two acorns in the picture has nothing to do with the dish. My four-year-old brought it from outside as a 'surprise' for me while I was taking the photo. I think the word 'surprise' has a different meaning in his dictionary.

7 comments:

Deepthi Shankar said...

yummy potato curry ..

Padhu Sankar said...

Love it very much!!Looks nice

Unknown said...

Delicious preparation..I have heard of potato podimas but never tried or tasted it. I have bookmarked Shanti's recipe, will be trying that soon..and thats a nice surprise from your little one :).

Unknown said...

what a cute surprise :) Love the pic dear :)

Suja Manoj said...

Delicious podimas..my favorite
so cute of your son.

Indian Cuisine Blogroll said...

Thanks Deesha, Padhu, Yummy Team, Priya and Suja and thanks to Shanthi for the recipe..

Nitha said...

Delicious potato... Good one..