Potato fry recipe | South Indian potato fry recipe, easy and simple potato curry recipe with detailed step-by-step instructions.
This style of making potato is one of my favorite. A very popular recipe curry in Tamil Brahmin houses. My mom and grandmother make it so yum and we enjoy it with hot rasam rice. Even now, my kids love this simple potato fry. Apart from chopping the veggies, this curry is a very simple one. This pairs well with most of the South Indian dishes. Also, this potato curry is a no onion no garlic recipe too.
Potato curry, we make in different ways. I have posted my mom’s signature recipe of Potato curry with onions. That pairs well with rice and chapati too. You can make this same potato fry using sweet potato too. I highly recommend cutting the potatoes with skin which gives nice crispiness to the curry. Just wash it well and soak this in saltwater for 15 minutes and then cut the potato with skin.
You can check out, Urulai kara curry, Baby potato fry, Madurai urulai pottalam, and Sweet potato curry.
Potato fry recipe
Ingredients
- 2 big potatoes
- 3 tsp sambar podi
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- Salt as needed
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp coconut oil
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- ¼ tsp asafoetida powder
Instructions
- Peel the skin of the potatoes and wash it nicely. You can wash it nicely and make the curry with the skin too.
- Chop this into small cubes and put inside water.
- Till you start making the curry, let this get immersed in water. Else the color will change.
- Before making, drain the water completely.
- In a pan add oil and add the mustard seeds, curry leaves and asafoetida.
- Once the mustard seeds splutter, add the chopped potato.
- Add sambar powder, salt and turmeric powder to this.
- Mix well.
- Let this cook in a medium flame for 15 minutes.
- Stir this in between. Do not add any water while cooking.
- Let this get roasted well.
- In the last drizzle 1 tsp of coconut oil. This is truly optional but enhances the taste of the potato roast.
- Switch off.
- Serve with any rice of your choice.
- We all love this with curd rice, sambar rice and rasam rice too.
- Also this goes perfect with coconut rice or lemon rice too.
Notes
- Peel the skin of the potatoes and wash it nicely. You can wash it nicely and make the curry with the skin too.
- Chop this into small cubes and put inside water.
- Till you start making the curry, let this get immersed in water. Else the color will change.
- Before making, drain the water completely.
- In a pan add oil and add the mustard seeds, curry leaves and asafoetida.
- Once the mustard seeds splutter, add the chopped potato.
- Add sambar powder, salt and turmeric powder to this.
- Mix well.
- Let this cook in a medium flame for 15 minutes.
- Stir this in between. Do not add any water while cooking.
- Let this get roasted well.
- In the last drizzle 1 tsp of coconut oil. This is truly optional but enhances the taste of the potato roast.
- Switch off.
- Serve with any rice of your choice.
- We all love this with curd rice, sambar rice and rasam rice too.
- Also this goes perfect with coconut rice or lemon rice too.
- Ensure to drain the water completely before adding the potatoes to the pan.
- Do not add water while cooking the potatoes.
- You can add red chili powder instead of sambar powder. Adjust according to your spice level preferences.
- Adding coconut oil in the last will give a wonder flavour to the potato fry.
My all time fav and love to have with any rice especially with rasam.
Easy and yummy. Any thing with potato is amazing.
its everyone's favorite dish…nice clicks
TH also eats extra rice when I make this 😀 I have posted a version which is actually cooked by him, he loves it!
my fav it looks so tasty…wow…..potato s the best.
my kids love this also
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Wow!Awesome…goes good with sambar rice..curd rice.
Though chopping little time consuming…love this receipe..
Thanks for sharing.
Every childs favourite!it is my favourite even now!
You have the cut the potatoes in a very cute fashion.. tiny tiny!!!
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Most of them love potatoes. Simple and yum
even my favorite too,I like it slightly crispy..
one of my fav too and such a staple and comforting food!
The perfect sides for dal or sambar 🙂 Super yum fry!! Nice clicks too dear 🙂
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wow so tempting my favorite one… can have anytime…
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My favourite jey 🙂 i mix with rice and eat !
Love this simple fry with curd rice Jey…
Its only 10am and i couldnt stop drooling here..Love this potato curry.
delicious fry,.. tempting..
i make like this for years now, i just add curry podi, little garam masala, and jeeraga podi, combo with onion vatha kulambu… (:
simple yet delicious,great with rice!!
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Anytime fav…can have this even daily 🙂
super tempting and inviting
easy n healthy recipe
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all time fav…never get bored of this fry…looks very tempting!!
really like this potato fry small and nicely cooked with minimal spices
Yummy fry…would love to have some right away dear…
All time favorite, I can have this with anything..
My mom made this recipe so regularly when we were kids since we relished it, been a while since have eaten it though…will make it
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I love it this way, but never made it look so good 😉 Lovely pictures
I just tried this for dinner and my dad loved it 😀
thank you for the recipe & the wonderful pictures !
thank u (its easy for a bachelor to make it )
Whenever I try to make this it became little mashy though I dried water completely and it’s not separate , I want to make this for 10 people
Please provide a tip
Pat dry them in a kitchen towel for 5-10 minutes and let the moisture get absorbed. And if making in bulk, divide in 2 batches if your pan is small. They should have good moving space while you saute them. Else it will stick and become mushy.