How to Make Aloo Pudi: Delicious Indian Potato Masala Recipe

 Aloo Pudi is a recipe that can be prepared and eaten anytime for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Aloo Masala is prepared by mashing tomatoes and onions and then adding boiled potatoes to it. It is made in an authentic and different way from any common Indian curry. It requires very little time and less ingredients to prepare. It is a perfect masala curry to be served with fluffy pudi, apart from this it can be served with Indian flour roti or white rice. Let us know the ingredients and the method to make it.

Delicious Aloo Masala And Pudi

Ingredients:

To boil potatoes

-1 pressure cooker (for boiling potatoes)

-5 potatoes (you can increase or decrease the quantity as per your requirement)

-Water

For Curry 

-2 tbsp oil

-1 bay leaf

-1-inch ilaichi

-1 black ilaichi

-1 pinch of hing

-1 tsp cumin

-2 green chillies

-1 medium-sized chopped onion

-1 medium-sized chopped tomato 

-1 tsp ginger garlic paste

-half tsp turmeric

-1 tsp chilli powder

-1 tsp coriander powder

-third/fourth tsp garam masala

-1 tsp kasori methi

-1 tsp salt (to taste)

-2 cups water (add more or less as per your requirement)

-2 tbsp coriander leaves (for garnishing)

Instructions:

1. First of all, take a pressure cooker and add 5 potatoes, 1 tsp salt and enough water. Cover it and cook for 2-3 minutes. The potatoes should be cooked well.

2. When the potatoes cool down, peel them and mash them well. Keep them aside.

3. Take a large pan, add oil to it and let it heat up. Add all the dry spices (bay leaf, big cardamom, small cardamom, cinnamon) to the ingredients mentioned above. Cook it on low flame till the dry spices become aromatic. After this, add a pinch of asafoetida to it. After this, add cumin seeds and green chilies and let them crackle.

4. After doing all this, add chopped onion to it and fry it till it becomes golden brown. On low flame, add 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, 1 tsp coriander powder, 1 tsp chili powder and garam masala to the pan and let it cook well.

5. After this add tomatoes and cook it till it become soft. Mix all the spices well and fry it. After this add boiled potatoes and kasuri methi, and salt as per taste.

6. Mix everything well and cook it. Now, add water as per requirement and cover it. And finally garnish it by adding coriander leaves.

7. Enjoy the prepared delicious potato curry with puffed puri.

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