Simple Potato Roast

Simple Potato Fry

Potato - almost everyone likes this tuber. It is an omni present and used vegetable. This particular potato fry dish is simple with very few ingredients. No tempering too. The speciality of this dish is the fact that it has few ingredients so that flavour of caramelised potato is a deliciously expressed.

Myself and my hubby love any dish if it turns slightly brown or we are even okay if it is slight burnt. We fish out the brown or black ones and eat. 😋. 

I generally use the iron skillet or kadai to do the roasts. It is non sticky and better than a non stick as its non toxic too. People, you have to try iron kadais ! It is user friendly too. And you have to check out the flavour of this potato fry roasted in iron kadai.. !

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Lets see this easy quick recipe.

Ingredients:

• Potato - 3 big
• Onion - 1 big
• Chilli powder - 1 teaspoon
• Coriander powder - 1 teaspoon
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon
• Salt - as required
• Oil - 3 table spoons

Procedure:

• Wash, peel the potatoes and cut it in small slices (so that it cooks without much water).
• Cut the onions and keep ready.
• Heat the oil and add onions. Saute for 2 minutes.

• Let the onion just become transparent.

• Add the potatoes. Mix once.

• Add the turmeric powder, chilli and coriander powder and salt. 

• Mix well and sprinkle few spoons of water.
• Cover the kadai and let it cook in slow flame.
• Open after 7 to 8 minutes when you get some nice roast smell.

• By now, there must be some nice crunchy brown crust formed under the potatoes.
• Gently scrape it up and stir once. 
• Do not disturb the potatoes for another 5 minutes. Again there would be crust formation. 
• Gently scrape it up while stirring. Repeat this few more times till you get it as brown and crunchy as you wish. 

Easy, yet awesome crunchy potato fry is ready to go as side dish with rasam rice or curd rice. 

Consume it when is still hot to enjoy the crunchiness.

Instead of oil and chilli powder / coriander powder try using butter and pepper powder respectively. Or replace any one ingredient and see the difference. 

I can very easily finish half of the potato fry in the name of checking salt. 😆.

Happy cooking !!