Jeera Aloo with Green peas
(Sauteed boiled potato with Green peas)
Jeera Aloo with green peas is everyone’s favorite side dish. This is a very simple popular classic dish of North India especially eaten with pooris. Jeera aloo with green peas is prepared with boiled potatoes and green peas and sautéed with spice and the addition of grated ginger, green chili and coriander leaves and in the end touch of mango powder makes this dish awesome.
When the homemakers are at loss as what to make, potatoes always come in mind and there always potatoes in the house. This is quick and easy vegetable dish goes well with any other main dish.
When the homemakers are at loss as what to make, potatoes always come in mind and there always potatoes in the house. This is quick and easy vegetable dish goes well with any other main dish.
Ingredients:
4 Medium - size potatoes
2 Cups frozen or fresh shelled green peas
1 Tablespoon fresh Ginger - grated
3 Tablespoons Coriander leaves- chopped
1 Medium Green chili -Chopped
(remove the seeds and membrane to reduce heat)
1 Teaspoon Cumin seeds
1 Pinch of Asafetida (Hing)
1 Teaspoon Red chili powder
2 Teaspoons Coriander powder
2 Teaspoons mango powder (amchoor powder)
1 Teaspoons of salt or to your taste
3 Tablespoons vegetable oil
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4 Medium - size potatoes
2 Cups frozen or fresh shelled green peas
1 Tablespoon fresh Ginger - grated
3 Tablespoons Coriander leaves- chopped
1 Medium Green chili -Chopped
(remove the seeds and membrane to reduce heat)
1 Teaspoon Cumin seeds
1 Pinch of Asafetida (Hing)
1 Teaspoon Red chili powder
2 Teaspoons Coriander powder
2 Teaspoons mango powder (amchoor powder)
1 Teaspoons of salt or to your taste
3 Tablespoons vegetable oil
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Potatoes, Ginger, Green chili & coriander leaves
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Green peas
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Cumin seeds
Mango powder
Ginger-grated
Oil
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Asafetida (Hing)
Salt
Green Chile -chopped
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Coriander powder
Red chili powder
Coriander leaves-chopped
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Directions:
1. Clean and scrub the skin of potatoes to remove dirt and wash them well.
2. Put the potatoes in the pressure cooker or a sauce pan, add water until it covers
the potatoes by about 1 inch.
1. Clean and scrub the skin of potatoes to remove dirt and wash them well.
2. Put the potatoes in the pressure cooker or a sauce pan, add water until it covers
the potatoes by about 1 inch.
Wash potatoes well
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Add potatoes in a pressure cooker
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Close the pressure cooker
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Open the cooker & check potatoes
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3. Drain potatoes in a strainer or lift whole potatoes out with a slotted spoon or
tongs.
4 let the Potatoes cool down.
tongs.
4 let the Potatoes cool down.
Drain potatoes in a strainer
5. Once potatoes cool down peel them and with the fingers break them into small
pieces or with a knife cut them into small pieces.
pieces or with a knife cut them into small pieces.
Peel potatoes
Boiled potatoes
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Mash potatoes
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Coarsely mashed potatoes'
6. Wash green peas.
7. In a sauce pan add green peas and ½ cup of water and boil them on medium
heat for 8 to 10 minutes or until they become tender. Drain the water out from
the green peas. Keep them aside.
7. In a sauce pan add green peas and ½ cup of water and boil them on medium
heat for 8 to 10 minutes or until they become tender. Drain the water out from
the green peas. Keep them aside.
Wash green peas
In pan add green peas & add water
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Boil green peas
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Cover the pan & let green peas boiil
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Pour green peas into a colander
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Boiled green peas
8. On medium high heat add 2 tablespoons oil in a nonstick frying pan or a heavy bottomed stainless- steel pan, add cumin seeds and asafetida and fry them for 2 to 3 minutes or until cumin seeds become brown.
In a pan add oil
Add cumin seeds and Asafetida
9. Once cumin seeds become brown addd boiled potatoes pieces and boiled
Green peas.
Green peas.
Cumin seeds become brown
Add boiled mashed potatoes
Add boiled Green peas
10. With the spatula mix Potatoes and Green peas together.
11. Add grated Ginger and chopped green chilies and mix with Potatoes and
Green peas.
11. Add grated Ginger and chopped green chilies and mix with Potatoes and
Green peas.
Mix aloo muttar
Add grated ginger & chopped green chili
Mix ginger & green chilies with potatoes & green peas
12. Sprinkle coriander powder, Mango powder, red chili powder and salt, with
spatula mix everything together and fry them on medium heat.
spatula mix everything together and fry them on medium heat.
Sprinkle Coriander powder, red chili powder, salt & Mango powder
Mix spices with potatoes and green peas
13. While frying, potatoes generally become dry, sprinkle 1 tablespoon of oil over
the potatoes and mix.
14. Fry one side for 2 minutes then with the spatula turn them to the other side
and fry the other side for 2 minutes, Keep repeating.
15. Potatoes looks dry to avoid adding more oil just sprinkle little water cover
the pan and turn the heat to low, the moisture will make potatoes moist and
the surface will become crisp.
16. In about 10 to 12 minutes the top surface of potatoes will become crisp, once
you have the desired crispness sprinkle chopped coriander leaves and mix, turn
the stove off.
the potatoes and mix.
14. Fry one side for 2 minutes then with the spatula turn them to the other side
and fry the other side for 2 minutes, Keep repeating.
15. Potatoes looks dry to avoid adding more oil just sprinkle little water cover
the pan and turn the heat to low, the moisture will make potatoes moist and
the surface will become crisp.
16. In about 10 to 12 minutes the top surface of potatoes will become crisp, once
you have the desired crispness sprinkle chopped coriander leaves and mix, turn
the stove off.
Sprinkle Oil over Potatoes & Green peas
Cover the pan
Aloo Muttar are fried
Sprinkle coriander leaves
Aloo Muttar are cooked
Jeera with green peas
17. If you like you can fry potatoes and green peas little longer until potatoes
crest crispy.
crest crispy.
Aloo muttar (Little crispier)
Tips:
For variations cook this dish with onion and garlic:
One medium fine chopped onion and 2 teaspoon minced garlic could be added
to the potatoes. In the frying pan after frying the cumin seeds and asafetida add
chopped onions and minced garlic and sauté them for 5 minutes or until they
become light brown then add the potatoes and green peas, then follow the process
for frying.
For variations cook this dish with onion and garlic:
One medium fine chopped onion and 2 teaspoon minced garlic could be added
to the potatoes. In the frying pan after frying the cumin seeds and asafetida add
chopped onions and minced garlic and sauté them for 5 minutes or until they
become light brown then add the potatoes and green peas, then follow the process
for frying.
Please take the time to let me know what you think about my recipe. Your comments would be helpful to me to improve the recipe.
Thank you
Geeta Seth
Thank you
Geeta Seth
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