Bombay Aloo

Check out my book “Indian for Everyone: 100 Easy, Healthy Dishes the Whole Family Will Love”. You can order it on Amazon via this link Deliciously hot and spicy potatoes cooked very simply with a warming bite of mustard seeds and fragrance of curry leaves. Subscribe to my channel here: http://hari.is/1O8ksnX For more great recipes check out my website: http://www.harighotra.co.uk/ Follow me: on   / harighotra   on   / hari.ghotra   on   / harighotra   This is a really fast and easy side dish to cook. Whenever I have a people over for dinner I always seem to have a last-minute panic that all the food is going to disappear too quickly - so this is the dish I cook to pad out the meal. Funnily enough, this is always the one that people ask for the recipe for, rather than the main centrepiece. There's a compliment in there somewhere. Anyway, this is a really quick thing to cook and it's a lovely way to jazz up your potatoes. Ideally you'll serve up deliciously spiced individual cubes of potatoes, so try not to stir them too much. You don't to be serving a bowl of Indian mash potato... although that actually sounds rather good! Ingredients 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 tsp mustard seeds 5 curry leaves 1 onion, sliced 2 green chillies, finely chopped 1 tsp cumin seeds 1 tsp coriander seeds ½ tsp red chilli powder (optional) ½ tsp turmeric 1 tsp salt 2 potatoes, cut into chunks 1 tsp garam masala Handful fresh coriander, finely chopped Method Heat the oil in a pan and add the mustard seeds and curry leaves. Once the mustard seeds splutter stir in the onions and cook until they turn a light golden brown colour. Place the coriander and cumin seeds into a pestle and mortar and pound to a powder. Add this, the turmeric, green chillies and chilli powder to the onions. After a minute, the spices will become fragrant, stir in the potatoes and salt then cook for about 5 minutes. Reduce the heat and stir in a splash of water. Place the lid on the pan and leave to steam for about 15-20 minutes until the potatoes are soft. Remove from the heat and finish with one teaspoon garam masala and a handful of fresh coriander.