Recipe- Vrat Ke Jeera Aloo

Vrat ke jeera aloo is a very easy and quick to make recipe for fasting. You just need some boiled potatoes and your stir fried aloo will be ready in just 5 minutes.You can serve these jeera aloo with any type of poori and paratha.

As these potatoes are cooked for Navaratri/ Ekadashi so made with very basic ingredients. During Hindu religious fasting only few spices, flour , vegetables are allowed to consume, There may be little difference in each family tradition.

Ingredients

500 gms Potatoes / Aloo
2 Green Chillies / Hari Mirch
10 Curry Leaves / Kadi Patta
4 tbsp Cooking oil or ghee
1.5 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
1/4 tsp Asafoetida / Hing powder
to Taste Sendha Namak /Rock Salt
1 tsp Pepper Powder / Kali Mirch
1.5 tsp Mango Powder / Amchoor Powder
4 tbsp Fresh Coriander / Cilantro / Hara Dhaniya optional

Method

* Boil potatoes , peel and chop into cubes.

* Heat oil or ghee in a heavy bottom pan and add cumin seeds, when it start to sizzle then add asafoetida.

* Add chopped green chilies and curry leaves and stir.

* Add the chopped potatoes in the pan and stir to mix.

* Cook on medium high heat for 2-3 minutes.

* Now add salt, pepper powder and mango powder and stir to mix everything.

* Roast for 2 minutes and then add chopped fresh coriander and mix.

* Serve hot with poori or paratha.