Name: Aloo-Dal Curry
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 3 nos Potato (cut into pieces); 1 cup Dal (Parippu); 2 cups Grated coconut; 4 nos Small onions; 4 nos Garlic pods; ½ tsp Turmeric powder; 1 ½ Chilly powder; 2 tsp Coriander powder; ½ tsp Garam masala powder; Salt (As reqd); 1 tsp Mustard seeds; 3 nos Small onions (optional)(finely chopped); Curry leaves (A few); 3 nos Dry red chillies – 2 (Kollamulaku); 1 tbsp Coconut oil

Aloo-Dal Curry

Easy curry for chappathis with Potatoes and Dal

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Prep Time 15

Total Time 15

Cuisine Kerala

Servings people

Ingredients

3 nos Potato cut into pieces
1 cup Dal Parippu
2 cups Grated coconut
4 nos Small onions
4 nos Garlic pods
½ tsp Turmeric powder
1 ½ Chilly powder
2 tsp Coriander powder
½ tsp Garam masala powder
Salt As reqd

For seasoning:-

1 tsp Mustard seeds
3 nos Small onions optional)(finely chopped
Curry leaves A few
3 nos Dry red chillies – 2 Kollamulaku
1 tbsp Coconut oil

Instructions

Cook dal and potatoes along with sufficient water and salt in a pressure cooker.
Heat up a pan or a kadai.
Dry roast the grated coconut along with sliced small onions and garlic.
When done, reduce the flame to minimum and add coriander powder, chilly powder, turmeric powder and garam masala powder.
Roast for a few seconds stirring continuously and switch off the flame.
Allow this to cool.
Grind it to a fine paste in a mixer grinder.
Add the paste into the dal-potato mix and mix well.
Add sufficient water. Mix well and simmer it for a few mins.
:- Check the level of salt and adjust, if necessary.
When the desired consistency is required, remove from the flame.
Heat oil in a pan or a kadai.
Splutter mustard seeds and sautT dry red chillies and curry leaves.
Add the above seasoning into the gravy and mix well.
:- Serve warm with rotis or chappathis.