Potato Masala (Aloo Masala) – Holy Cow Vegan

27 de February de 2024

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This versatile, easy however lip-smackingly scrumptious potato masala could be stuffed right into a dosa, scooped up with a poori or roti, or served as a facet with rice and dal.

Potato masala with cilantro in white bowl.

Few meals match as much as the utter simplicity and deliciousness of a traditional Indian potato masala, with a tempering of mustard seeds and a contact of ginger, garlic and turmeric.

The potatoes, cooked to the purpose the place they mash simply, purchase a crispy, golden char on the backside of the pan. Squirt on a splash of lemon juice and you’ve got the tastiest meals on the planet, all vegan.

Regardless of the title, there’s not a lot masala in a potato masala. In reality, when you like gently spiced meals, it is a dish for you.

Desk of Contents

Why you’ll love this potato masala

Versatile recipe. This masala can be utilized at practically any meal, with practically any facet. It’s what you will see stuffed in a dosa at an Indian restaurant. You can too serve it with a flatbread like poori or roti or with rice and dal.
Simple recipe. This aloo masala is an totally easy and even foolproof recipe. It is in all probability one of many first dishes most aspiring Indian cooks study to make, in all probability as a result of it is practically inconceivable to mess it up.
Crowd-pleaser. Everybody loves potatoes, together with these avowed veggie-haters. Even children cannot say no to those. This aloo masala dish was one in all my son Jay’s favorites, and I’d usually catch him scooping up the potatoes from the skillet and stuffing them into his mouth.
Scrumptious. You actually need not emphasize that potatoes are scrumptious, however cooked this manner they’re particularly so.
Soy-free, nut-free and gluten-free recipe.

Elements

Potatoes. Yellow or yukon gold potatoes or pink potatoes work finest on this recipe. You should utilize russets at a pinch, or a combination. It’s key to cook dinner the potatoes till they’re very tender earlier than you add them to the skillet.
Vegetable oil of alternative. Decide something you employ in your on a regular basis cooking, from coconut oil to avocado oil, sunflower oil, grape seed oil and peanut oil.
Mustard seeds. Mustard seeds and potatoes are a scrumptious pairing (very like cumin seeds and potatoes are in Jeera Aloo).
Asafetida (hing, non-obligatory). Asafetida helps make potatoes simpler to digest and it tastes wonderful right here. Skip it if you do not have it or cannot supply it.
Urad dal or black gram dal. Urad dal provides some good crunch to the potatoes.
Recent inexperienced chili peppers, like jalapeno or serrano. Inexperienced peppers are an exquisite mixture with potatoes, including a freshness and welcome spice to the tasteless potatoes.
Recent curry leaves. These add fantastic taste. Chop them up when you like; I depart them complete. Some fish out the curry leaves however I like consuming them as a result of they’ve tons of taste.
Onions
Turmeric. Turmeric not solely provides extra healthfulness to the potato masala recipe, it additionally provides the dish its signature yellow hue.
Ginger-garlic paste
Lemon
Cilantro, for garnish.

Learn how to make potato masala

Oil in wok with mustard seeds and asafetida added.

Warmth oil in wok or skillet over medium-high warmth. Add the mustard seeds and asafetida to the oil and look ahead to the mustard seeds to sputter.

Urad dal added in wok with mustard seeds and asafetida.

Stir within the urad dal and saute just a few seconds till it simply begins to vary colour.

Onions, curry leaves and turmeric added to wok.

Add the onions, curry leaves, chopped inexperienced chili peppers and turmeric to the wok.

Ginger garlic paste added to onions in wok.

Add a beneficiant pinch of salt and saute the onions till tender and simply starting to brown. Stir within the ginger garlic paste and saute for a minute to let it cook dinner.

Stir within the cooked potatoes and blend nicely. Let the potatoes cook dinner over medium-high warmth for a couple of minutes, stirring each couple of minutes, so the potatoes on the backside get frivolously charred. This provides nice taste and a few crunch.

Stir within the lemon juice adopted by the cilantro. Combine and switch off warmth. Serve sizzling.

High tip

Boil the potatoes till fork-tender, then allow them to cool. Use a knife to chop them in a cube or, for a extra traditional-style preparation, use your fingers to crumble the potatoes into smaller bits, however do not mash them with a fork or masher. You need some texture.

Serving strategies

Storage directions

Refrigerate: Retailer the aloo masala within the fridge in an hermetic container for as much as 4 days.
Freeze: Freeze the potato masala for as much as 4 months in a freezer-safe container.
Reheat: Reheat on stovetop or within the microwave till warmed by way of.

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