ALOO FRY

Instructions

• Chop potatoes into small cubes
• Add them in water and salt and leave them for sometime (this will get the starch out of them)
• Add oil (this needs more oil than usual)
• Add mustard seeds
• Add cumin seeds
• Add asafetida
• Add 2-3 dry chillies
• Add curry leaves
• Add 7-8 fenugreek seeds (menthulu)
• Add 1 spoon toor dal or chana dal (kandi pappu or pachhi senaga pappu)
• Add 1 spoon urad dal (minappappu)
• Add 1 spoon garlic paste or crushed 5 garlic cloves
• Add some turmeric
• Add potatoes taken out from water
• Mix everything well and add some salt
• After sometime, add chili powder as required
• Add half spoon coriander powder or more according to the quantity of potatoes
• Add half spoon cumin powder or more according to the quantity of potatoes
• Keep mixing them and it takes some time to cook potatoes, so cut them into very small cubes
• Add coriander leaves and once if they are cooked, check for salt