Easy Spicy Potato Roast

After the over doze of Christmas cakes, cookies, puddings and everything sweet, this potato roast served as an accompaniment for our simple meal, today.
This dish is something I make very frequently for children, particularly as a side dish for their pack away lunch. An absolute kid freindly accompaniment!

Today we woke up to see the cloudy dull morning.With no vegetables in the crisper, I decided to make this instantly, with plain hot rasam and fiery kothamalli chutney! :-)

Easy Potato Roast 
Serves two

Total time needed - 20 minutes
 [For Preparatory -10 minutes
 For Cooking -10 minutes]


You Need:
2-3 tsps of oil
1/4 tsp mustard seeds and ½ tsp urad dal
2 large potatoes
¾ tsp *sambhar powder
¼ tsp turmeric powder
A sprig of curry leaves
Salt to taste


Method:



Peel skin, wash and dice potatoes. Heat oil in a non stick kadai. Splutter mustard seeds and brown the urad dal until golden brown (not too brown as it will get roasted further in the next stage) . Throw in the diced potatoes and combine gently.




Add salt and let the pieces get roasted for 2-3 minutes in low-medium flame. Tip in the powders, sambhar and turmeric, followed by the curry leaves.




Toss or stir to combine and roast for another 3-5 until the spices coat the pieces and they are roasted well. Drizzle a few drops of oil at this point if needed. Check salt and serve hot with steamed rice, rasam and appalam.

Note:

*If you don't have sambhar powder, you can substitute with 1/2 tsp of chilly powder + 1/4 tsp of coriander powder + a pinch of cumin/jeera powder. This won't alter the taste of the final dish.

To be honest, I blogged it a bit too hastily, within 30 minutes; while the pictures where getting uploaded to flickr, the recipe was typed. The publish button was clicked within the next 5 minutes. I don't think I had done a blog post so quickly so far. Thanks to the easy and  comforting dish!

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