One day I was left with only potatoes in my kitchen and I was thinking what to make for lunch. Though I know many other recipes to make, using potato but I wanted to make something creative and then suddenly I noticed hing in my kitchen drawer and that is when I decide to make Hing wale Aloo ki sabzi.
So I prepared this sabzi and got my hubby to taste it and guess what, I heard a wow from him.
The main Ingredient you have to concentrate in this recipe is hing so those who likes hing can add hing properly to get a nice flavor and aroma of it and those who doesn’t like it much can just add a pinch of it.
Ingredients :-
- Potatoes – 600 gms
- Dry red chilli – 2 (broken into 2-3 pieces)
- Green chillies – 2 (finely chopped)
- Dry ginger powder – 1 tsp
- Red chilli powder – 1 tsp (or as per the taste)
- Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
- Asafoetida powder – 1 tsp
- Dry mango powder/amchur – 1 tsp
- Garam masala powder – 1 tsp
- Coriander leaves – ½ cup (chopped)
- Oil – 2 tbsp
- Salt as per your taste
Method :-
- Boil the potatoes till they are cooked well and can be easily mashed.
- Peel and lightly mash the potatoes and set aside.
- Heat oil in a pan.
- Add cumin seeds and dry red chillies, when the seeds starts crackling add the green chilies and stir for a few seconds.
- Turn off the gas and add turmeric, asafoetida,red chilli powder, garam masala powder and ginger paste. (this step is done in order to avoid the masala getting burnt)
- Stir and keep the pan on the stove again.
- Now add the mashed potatoes, salt and dry mango powder, stir well.
- Check the taste and add more of the red chili powder or dry mango powder or salt if it is required.
- Add the coriander leaves and switch off the flame. stir and keep covered for few minutes.
- Once done serve along with roti, paratha or puri.
- It also goes well along with plain dal and rice.
Tip :-
You can adjust the quantity of spice and hing as per your taste.
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