How ever hard I try to restrict potato in our diet but some way or another it is always present in our menu either in some curry or in a snack as most of the snacks are made with potato and often you can't replace it with any other vegetable.
I made many starter and snacks with potatoes which me and my family enjoys a lot - Achari aloo, Dahi Aloo Chat, , Potato Spirals , Potato Cup Chat , Roasted Rosemary Potato are my favorite snacks which I make often.
My today's recipe- Tandoori potato is a easy and very delicious starter which can also be served as a side dish. If you don't get baby potatoes then just use normal sized boiled potatoes and chop into big size chunks.I have grilled them in a non stick pan but you can also bake in an oven or BBQ them,taste great anyways.
Prep time- 10 min
Cooking time- 15 min
Difficulty level-easy
Spice level-medium
Cuisine -North Indian
Type - snack,side, appetizer
INGREDIENTS-
- Baby potatoes /chhotay aloo- 15
- Thick Yogurt /dahi - 1 cup
- Mustard oil/ sarso tel - 2 tbsp
- Ginger paste /pisa adrak - 1tsp
- Salt /namak - to taste
- Kashmiri chili powder - 1.5 tsp
- Crushed carom seeds / ajwain- 1/2 tsp
- Roasted cumin powder /jeera powder - 3/4 tsp
- Dry mint /sookha pudina - 3/4 tsp
- Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
- Chat masala - 1/2 tsp
- Lemon juice -1 tbsp
- Orange food colour/tandoori colour- few drops (optional)
- Par boil potatoes in water with a tsp of salt added.
- Peel the boiled potatoes .
- In a big bowl add yogurt, mustard oil,1 tsp lemon juice and all the spices in it.
- Mix well and add the boiled potatoes in it.
- Cover the bowl and let the potatoes marinate for 2-3 hours (or overnight in the refrigerator if you want to plan ahead )
- If you want to make them instantly then add 1 tsp of dry roasted gram flour/besan in it.
- Take a wide and thick bottom pan or a non stick pan and add the potatoes in a single layer in it.
- let the potatoes cook on medium high flame in the pan,stir occasionally.
- When the marination almost dries up and potatoes get roasted then remove from the pan.
- Drizzle some lemon juice and serve hot .
TIPS-
- Instead of roasting in the pan you can also roast the potatoes in an oven on the highest temperature for about 15 minutes or arrange on a skewer and grill on a B.B.Q
- Can also add some blanched cauliflower,mushroom and paneer in the marination.
- If baby potatoes are not available then can use big chunks of par boiled potatoes.
- Use of orange /tandoori color is optional.