Potato Egg Curry

I took a short break from blogging. Eventhough I was not posting anything, I still was cooking and taking pictures. I usually make egg curry with potaoes in it so that I can use it for more than one day. Potatoes and eggs get along well in this versatile egg curry. To fried onion, garlic and ginger, add masala powders and saute for few minutes. Then add potatoes and tomatoes and cook till tender. Stir in boiled eggs and home made garam masala towards the end. It could be served with chapathi, appam, puttu or idiyappam.
Recipe Courtesy: Sarah's Vazhayila

Aloo Palak (Uttar Pradesh Style) / Potato Spinach Dry Curry

This is how I usually make aloo palak, which could be served with both rice and roti. Here onion, garlic and green chilli are lightly fried, then potatoes are added and cooked. When potatoes are half done spinach and other spices are added and cooked and then finally stir fried for a few minutes. The other type is the Punjabi style aloo palak where cooked potatoes are simmered in a pureed spinach gravy.
Recipe Courtesy: A Mad Tea Party

Tindora (Ivy Gourd) Potato Stir-fry

I have been combining potato with different vegetable for making stir-fry. This time it is potato with ivy gourd. Both of them complemented each other and the stir-fry turned out great. This could be served with both rice and roti.
Recipe Courtesy: Divya's Recipes

Carrot Potato Stir-fry with Sesame

This is a simple carrot-potato stir-fry along with crunchy sesame seeds. It could be served with both rice and roti.
Recipe Courtesy: Priti's Indian Khana

Aloo Methi (Potato Fenugreek Leaves Stir-fry)

Aloo methi is a popular side dish in North India. Fenugreek leaves has a strong flavor which makes aloo methi a very flavorful, delicious and healthy dish. It could be served with both rice and roti.
Recipe Courtesy: ShowMeTheCurry.com

Red Radish Potato Stir-fry

This is a simple stir-fry with the small round red radish and potato. The bright red skin of the radish turns to pale red when cooked. Loved the yummy stir-fry.
Recipe Courtesy: Uma's Trendy Relish
Recently, I learned something very scary about potatoes. The sprouts that we see on potatoes that are stored for a long period of time are toxic and so are the green colored part (chlorophyll due to excessive exposure to sun) that we sometimes see on the inside of the skin of some potatoes. The flesh of such potatoes, if still firm, are edible, but care needs to be taken to completely remove the sprout or any green skin before cooking. Scary, huh, I never knew about it!!!

Kale Potato Stir-fry (Aloo Kale Sabzi)

This is the first time I'm trying kale (curly leaved Scots kale) and it tastes very similar to collard greens that I tried recently. This made me think, once wilted does all greens taste the same? Not really, huh! Potato and kale got together very nicely just like potato and spinach. The recipe that I followed calls for grinding roasted chana dal and coconut for gravy, but I left them as such because I wanted to make a crunchy dry curry.
Recipe Courtesy: Suganya's Tasty Palettes

Ishtu (Potato Stew in Coconut Milk)

Ishtu or potato stew is another Kerala delight that is served with appam, chapathi etc. Potatoes are cooked in creamy coconut milk gravy along with a medley of spices. It's cousin is the vegetable stew where other vegetables are also added to the stew.
Recipe courtesy: Shn's Mishmash

Broccoli Potato Sabzi / Stir-fry

Broccoli is a vegetable rich in nutritional and medicinal values. It makes a good combination with potato for stir-frying. This combo could be served as a side dish with rice or roti.
Recipe Courtesy: iCookiPost

Bihari Aloo Dum (Baby Potato in Yogurt n Masala Gravy)

Dum Aloo is popular dish in North India with regional variations in preparation. This time I tried the Bihari version. Here cooked baby potatoes are skinned and fried in oil/ghee and then cooked in a tomato-yogurt gravy along with spices. This could be served as side dish rice or roti.
Recipe Courtesy: Aipi's US Masala

Aloo Gobi (Potato Cauliflower Stir-fry)

Aloo gobi is a simple side dish from North India which could be made in the curry or dry form. It could be served with rice, roti or parathas.

Recipe Courtesy: Ahaar

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Capsicum Kairas / Bell Pepper Potato n Peanuts with Fried Coconut

This is a Konkani side dish popular in Northern Karnataka. Capsicum, potato and peanuts are cooked with tamarind and jaggery along with freshly roasted masala. I used only very little jaggery not wanting to make it too sweet. It tasted similar to the Kerala theeyal because of the fried coconut factor.
Recipe courtesy: The Indian Food Court

Aloo Capsicum (Potato Bell Pepper Fry)

Aloo Capsicum is a popular North Indian side dish served with rotis and chapathis. It is a very simple dish where potatoes and bell peppers are cooked and then stir-fried in oil with spices.
Recipe Courtesy: Preethi's online cookbook

Vegetable Stew (in coconut milk)

This is a Kerala style mixed vegetable stew in a coconut milk gravy. This versatile stew which could be served with appam, idiyappam or chapathi.
Recipe courtesy: Sarah's Vazhayila

This is a very similar version of vegetable stew that my mom makes. Here turmeric is added and hence the color. Vegetables, along with onion, ginger and green chilli, are cooked first and garam masala (cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, star anise), coconut mik or whole milk are added towards the end. Finally, stew is tempered with mustard seeds, whole red pepper, Malabar leaves (Indian bay leaves) and curry leaves.

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.