Vegetarian Food: Dry Curried Potatoes

My mom -in-law is pretty good at “CopyCat” restaurant style recipes.

She could use her taste buds to figure out what seasonings had been used in every recipe she had eaten and try out a new dish at home.

One of her favorite recipe is Dry Curried Potatoes which is a deep fried version, well blended with curry leaves, sugar and spice.

This is one of the simplest potato recipe I had ever learned from her but she never let me take a peek how she cooked the dish.

She would briefly explained the step by step without exact ingredients measurement because she doesn’t want me to “copycat” her recipes.

How to prepare

I had roughly figured out how to prepare this Dry Curried Potato dish with simple and easy to follow steps.

• cut potatoes into strips or whatever shape you desire and deep fried them
• Mix 1 tbsp of curry powder with 1 tsp of sugar and a little salt.

These are the main ingredients which made this potato recipe a wonderful and fragrant meal without much hassle.

A perfect vegetarian recipe for vegetarians and non-vegetarians that goes very well with white or brown rice even without any side dish!

Dried Curried Potatoes 

• 3 medium potatoes / 2 large potatoes-peeled
• 1 stalk curry leaves-briefly washed
• 1 tbsp of curry powder ( vegetarian)
• 1 tsp of sugar
• a little sugar and pepper
• 2 cloves garlic-chopped
• 1 medium onion slices thickly

Method of cooking:

1. Cut potatoes into the shape you preferred ( cubes/ chips/ slices /wedges)
2. Sprinkle a little salt over them and drain off excess water.
3. Heat up a wok with sufficient oil for deep frying.
4. The potatoes will stick to the base of the wok and clump together if the oil is insufficient.
5. When the oil is hot, lift up a handful of potatoes into the wok.
6. Do not put everything into the wok because you need to allow some space for the potatoes to cook.
7. You may need to deep fry them 2 batches.
8. Make sure the potatoes are brownish in color.
9. Remove and transfer them to kitchen paper towel to absorb the excess oil.
10. Remove all oil used, just leave 1 tbsp in the wok.
11. Saute onion and garlic with curry leaves until fragrant.
12. Add in curry powder and sugar, stir fry quickly.
13. Don’t let the spice burn.
14. Quickly, add in the pre-cooked potatoes into the wok, stir fry until all ingredients are coated well.
15. Turn off heat.
16. Dish up and sprinkle pepper before serving

Yield 3-4 persons

Mild spicy, my kids loved them!

What is curry powder

Curry powder is one of the popularly used spice herbs for Indian and Muslim cuisine.

The word “Curry” comes from the Tamil word “kari” which means “sauces or seasoning for rice ”

The main ingredients used to blend into a curry powder or paste are:

coriander, tumeric, cumin, funegreek and red chillies

There are several flavors that had enhanced the taste of curry powder.

Popularly sold curry powder are:

fish curry powder

chicken curry powder

fish curry powder

mutton curry powder

beef curry powder

vegetarian curry powder

Each flavor is sold in small sachet or medium packets in the supermarket.

Refrain from smelling the curry powder closely because you will be choked by inhaling the spicy powder alone.

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