Pickled aaloo

Stumbling upon recipes while reading chic-lit is most serendipitous! 
The Indian summer in its full glory does sap you out of a desire to eat a proper meal. And even adding zingy salads, to the menu has not been helping me.


While reading her book I came across a very desi (Indian) aaloo (potato) dish. I got all excited to bring it to form. From words to my kitchen. 


Ta-dah!


Lets just move to the recipe:
* Boil potatoes, depending on number of people. I boiled 5 small ones for 2. Try to keep them a little uncooked so as avoid mashing later on.
* Once boiled and cooled, cut the potatoes in big square chunky pieces.
* Heat a dollop of butter (the goodness!) in a pan and add the potatoes to it.
* Sprinkle salt and a generous amount of chaat masala. Improvisation on my part – I added pani puri masala and aamchoor (dry mango/kairi powder) as did not have any chaat masala.
* Gently toss the mixture and let the potatoes turn brown.
* Improvisation number 2 – Add finely cut green pepper (mirchi) and cilantro (coriander leaves).
* Now the awesome secret of the recipe. Add any achaar (pickle) masala to this and mix well and let it simmer for a while. I added mango pickle masala. Any other should work too.


Serve hot! Rather eat from the pan the way I did 😀

butter is the key!





6 responses to “Pickled aaloo”

  1. nightflier Avatar

    hehe..I wish 😀
    But used up a quarter of that pack 😉
    Also the original recipe maker says it tastes the best with mirchi pickle masala..

  2. neha Avatar

    oo..yum yum..I can see the 'key' on the right side in the pic. Did you use the entire stick of butter? 😀
    Will try these, but first, I need to get hold of some pickle masala.

  3. nightflier Avatar

    hehe.. you should try too!

  4. nightflier Avatar

    yeah you should try! 🙂

  5. Tanvi Avatar

    So hungry … looks yum and quick to make!!!

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  6. Upasna Avatar

    looks yum! and easy. 🙂

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