Vrat waale aloo
Vrat waale aloo, this recipe is made during fasting/vrat or navratri .Its quick and easy to make. This curry goes well with samo rice pulav, kuttu ki roti, poori or vrat ki kachori.
Ingredients
- 3 medium potatoes aloo
- 2 medium tomatoes
- 1 green chilies chopped
- ½ teaspoon cumin seeds jeera
- 1.5 to 2 cups water
- 2 tablespoon ghee/clarified butter
- rock salt or sendha namak as required
Instructions
- Heat 2 tablespoons of ghee/clarified butter in a pan.
- Crackle the 1/2 teaspoon of cumin seeds.
- Now add the 1 chopped green chilies .
- Saute for half a minute.
- Add a cup of grinded tomatoes and saute.
- Stir and saute till the oil starts to leave the sides of the mixture.
- The tomatoes would have cooked completely by now.
- Continue to stir in between when cooking the tomatoes a couple of times.
- Directly crumble the 3 boiled potatoes in the tomato gravy. stir and mix well.
- Add 2 cups of water, stir well. sprinkle sendha namak as required.
- Simmer till the gravy thickens a bit.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve vrat wale aloo hot. the gravy will thicken as it cools down.
- Serve hot with samo rice or kuttu ki puri