Potato Stew Recipe

Potato Stew is a flavorful curry from the state of Kerala. This curry is made with a few very basic ingredients and usually uses coconut milk but for this recipe, I have used regular milk, yet retained the authentic taste and flavor of the recipe.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Indian

Keyword potato stew recipe

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 25

Total Time 30

Servings people

Calories 151kcal

Author Puja

Equipment

Ingredients

250 grams Potatoes chopped or diced
2 tbsp Coconut oil
1/2 cup Onions thinly sliced
1 Bay Leaf
1 inch Cinnamon Stick
1 inch Ginger peeled & julienned
1 tsp Black Peppercorns crushed
2 Cloves crushed
2 Green Chilli slit or sliced
1-2 Curry Leaves sprig
2-3 cups Cow Milk or as needed
1-2 cup Water to cook potato covering in between
Salt as required

Instructions

Crush whole black pepper and cloves in a mortar-pestle coarsely. Set aside.
Heat coconut oil in a pan.
Add thinly sliced onions, tej patta, ginger juliennes, curry leaves and green chilli.
Also add the crushed black pepper, cloves and cinnamon stick.
Saute the onions on low to medium heat until they soften and turn translucent. Do not brown them.
Remember to stir the onions at regular intervals till they become translucent.
Now add potatoes and mix them with the onions and spices.
Add 2 cups water. Season with salt as required.
Cover the pan with its lid and simmer on a medium-low to medium heat till the potatoes gets cooked. Keep checking and stir while the potatoes are cooking.
Once the potatoes gets cooked switch off the flame.
Now add milk and mix everything well. (Do not pour milk when the stove is on else there is the possibility of milk getting curdled)
Now switch on the gas and boil the curry on low to medium heat.
Once the curry gets boiled nicely switch of the the flame.
Serve potato stew with Gothambu puttu, appams, idiyappams, dosa or ghee rice or cumin rice. You can also have it with roti, poori, plain paratha or lachha paratha.

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