Mint flavored baby potato fry – No onion no garlic baby potato fry – Recipe with detailed step-by-step pictures.
We usually make baby potato curry by adding sambar powder in the traditional South Indian way. This one is a different and interesting one. Boiled baby potatoes marinated in mint-flavored chutney and pan-fried. This pairs well with roti and rice.
Baby potatoes are loved by kids and adults. The minty flavor gives a unique taste to the potato. You can pack this for kid’s lunch box too, along with roti or rice. You can use store-bought green chutney for marinating the potatoes.
If you don’t have baby potato, you can do this with normal potatoes too. Just boil them and cut them into cubes and proceed. Tips for boiling baby potato in a perfect way. I have given tips to pressure cook the potatoes perfectly in this post.
Also check out, baby potato fry, Potato curry, Potato fry recipe, Potato pepper fry.
Mint flavoured baby potato fry
Ingredients
- 20 baby potato
- 1 tbsp oil
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp kasoori methi
- ¼ tsp pepper powder
- 1 tbsp besan | gram flour
- 1 tbsp rice flour
- Salt as needed
To grind
- ½ cup coriander leaves
- ¼ cup mint leaves
- 1 green chili
- Little salt
Instructions
- In a mixie jar grind the coriander leaves, mint leaves, little salt and 1 green chili into a fine paste.
- Do not add much water.
- Boil the baby potato and peel the skin and keep aside.
- Now add the ground mint paste to this potato and add the rice flour and gram flour.
- Mix well and let this marinate for 20 minutes.
- In a pan add 1 tbsp of oil and add the cumin seeds.
- Add the marinated baby potato to this.
- Keep in medium flame and fry this for 10 minutes.
- Add the kasoori methi and pepper powder.
- Mix well and cook till you see tiny brown spots appear on the potatoes.
- Switch off the stove.
- Serve with rice or rotis.
Notes
2. Mint flavored baby potato can be served as a starter too.
- In a mixie jar grind the coriander leaves, mint leaves, little salt and 1 green chili into a fine paste.
- Do not add much water.
- Boil the baby potato and peel the skin and keep aside.
- Tips to boil the baby potato perfectly.
- Wash the baby potato and put this into a vessel. Do not add any water. Add water into the cooker and pressure cook for 4-5 whistles.
- Since we are not adding water into the potato, it will not get over cooked.
- Now add the ground mint paste to this potato and add the rice flour and gram flour.
- Mix well and let this marinate for 20 minutes.
- In a pan add 1 tbsp of oil and add the cumin seeds.
- Add the marinated baby potato to this.
- Keep in medium flame and fry this for 10 minutes.
- Add the kasoori methi and pepper powder.
- Mix well and cook till you see tiny brown spots appear on the potatoes.
- Switch off the stove.
- Serve with rice or rotis.
these baby potatoes looks so inviting. Mint flavor must be tasty. 🙂
lovely ! I make this too… your clicks are awesome…
they r so perfectly made n looks so flavorful..
Woww.. Lovely and delicious fry.. nice presentation too.. thanks for sharing dear 🙂
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I always like to grill these cute potatoes. Nice preparation with minty touch jeyashri.
Never made baby potatoes with mint. Sounds interesting. Nicely done !!
looks flavorful and delicious jeya 🙂
Has come out well, hope you all liked it, thanks for linking me.
healthy version…really flavourful!will try it!
looks good n healthy…will surely try this one.
Looks very yum! Must have been very flavorful and aromatic
wow, it looks delicious. will try for sure 🙂
Minty baby potatoes look awesome !
Flavorful baby potatoes… Gonna try this soon
yummy potato fry with lovely aroma……
nice masala coated baby potatoes
Oooh.. nice color… I have one with curry leaves flavored!!
Serve It – Stir Fried
Very nicely coated with masala,yummy!You can link this to my event,dear..
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They look so.. good, very tempting..
Really tempting recipe,aishu is a gr8 fan of baby potato…sure will try this…
very delicious n simple fry..love anything wid baby alu,even I hv a version in my blog
Lovely potatoes. Love the flavour of mint with potato.
Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran,
https://indianyummykitchen.blogspot.com
Delicious n flavorful baby potato fry,looks so tempting.
Yummy and flavorful fry
This looks really good. And as you say can serve as a starter too.
jeyashree it looks so good….kids will love this….n me too..will try n let u know….thanks for the recipe….i love ur clicks…its amazing.
aww how nicely you've taken the pics, in the limited time you had. thanks for sharing this recipe. looks yum!
Today I tried this mint potato, it was good we had with lemon rice