Masala Baby Potatoes Recipe

Hindi: Aloo

Why is it that when you are stuck at “what should we cook today” the answer is always “make some aloo!” Potatoes are like this…extremely popular and have multipurpose usage.

And did you always think that eating a potato will make you fat?
Well, don’t – it is a surprising source of vitamin C and provides useful amounts of starch, thiamine and niacin and around a hundred grams will provide about eighty calories.
Little did you know!

Prep Time : 31-40 minutes

Cook time : 11-15 minutes

Serve : 4

Level Of Cooking : Easy

Taste : Mild

Ingredients for Masala Baby Potatoes - SK Khazana Recipe

• Baby potatoes boiled & peeled 26-30

• Ghee 4 1/2 teaspoons

• Cumin powder 1 teaspoon

• Garam masala powder 1 teaspoon

• Salt to taste

• Cumin seeds 1 teaspoon

• Iceberg lettuce 3-4

• Medium cucumber 1

• Tomato slice 1 to garnish

• Fresh coriander sprigs to garnish

• Malta orangrs 2

• Tinned pineapple slices cut into big chunks 3

• Tinned cherries seeded and halved 8-10

• Fresh cherries to garnish

Method

Step 1

Heat 2½ tsps ghee in a non-stick pan, add ½ tsp cumin powder and ½ tsp garam masala and mix well. Add baby potatoes, remaining cumin powder, remaining garam masala and salt land mix well. Cook on high heat for 2-3 minutes, stirring continuously. Transfer half of the cooked potatoes into a bowl.

Step 2

Add remaining ghee to the potatoes remaining in the non-stick pan and add cumin seeds and mix till the cumin seeds coat all the potatoes.

Step 3

Place some lettuce leaves in a serving bowl and put the potatoes over them. Cut the cucumber into flower, place a tomato slice and garnish with coriander sprigs.

Step 4

Halve a malta orange and place both the halves upside down on a serving platter. Halve the remaining malta orange and cut 6 thin slices horizontally, remove the seeds and place them all around the halved orange.

Step 5

To make cocktail sticks of the remaining potatoes, insert a pineapple chunk, halved cherry and baby potato on each toothpick. Insert 7-8 such cocktail sticks on top of each orange half. Garnish with fresh cherries.

Step 6

Serve both the potatoes immediately
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