Rice With Julienned Potatoes

"Seasoned fried potato sticks cooked together with rice? Sounded strange to me at first, but it is really good. Another well-liked dish from my favorite book on Indian cooking, Yamunda Devi's " The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking". Serve with a tomato dish and salted yoghurt for a vegetarian meal."
 
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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
20
Serves:
4-6
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directions

  • NOTE: Use smaller amount of water for firm rice, larger amount for softer rice.
  • Start defrosting peas. Cut potatoes into 4 x 1/2 x 1/2 inch sticks. Stir together yoghurt, ginger, chili, parsley and coconut in a medium bowl, drop in potato sticks and mix to coat. Let marinate while assembling the other ingredients.
  • Heat oil in a large skillet with a tight fitting lid over medium high heat. Add cumin seeds, cloves, cinnamon and bay leaf ( if fresh it might splutter!), and cook until cumin has turned several shades darker to a reddish brown color, about 2 minutes.
  • Add potatoes with the yoghurt to the skillet and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden brown on all sides, about 10- 15 minutes.
  • Add rice, fry for another minute, until rice is evenly coated with oil, add turmeric, water, sugar, salt and lime juice. Stir and bring to a boil, cover tightly and reduce heat immediately to very low. Let cook undisturbed for 15 minutes.
  • Add peas without stirring, cover again and cook 5 minutes longer. Remove from heat, fluff with a fork, mixing in peas, re-cover. Let rest another 5 minutes to firm up rice grains. Add butter and fluff again until butter is mixed through. Serve garnished with lime wedges.

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Reviews

  1. This was sooo good. There was tonz of flavor! I too though had to use red chili powder beause I didn not have chili peppers.
     
  2. Ahhh, I totally love this rice and potatoes dish. I had this alongwith Mom for dinner tonight and we both enjoyed it alot. The flavour of this rice is incredible and the appearance most tempting! I have quite alot of grated coconut on hand and in my quest for recipes to use it up, I decided to try this and I'm so glad I did because this is excellent! I served this with Puneri dal(recipe #110187). For the rice, I substituted the butter with ghee and for the potatoes, I used a tsp. of red chilli powder instead of the chilli peppers and fresh mint leaves instead of parsley or corriander as I did not have both of those on hand. Mint made this oh so flavourful! You really must try this with mint leaves. This will be a regular on our table. Thank you for sharing such a nice recipe!
     
  3. This was wonderful. I was dubious about whether it would actually be a meal in itself but it was so (full)filling and satisfying. It had a "different" flavor from most dishes I have eaten but I LOVED it!!!
     
  4. I had a chance to taste this rice during my recnet visit to India. Really tastes great!!
     
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  1. Ahhh, I totally love this rice and potatoes dish. I had this alongwith Mom for dinner tonight and we both enjoyed it alot. The flavour of this rice is incredible and the appearance most tempting! I have quite alot of grated coconut on hand and in my quest for recipes to use it up, I decided to try this and I'm so glad I did because this is excellent! I served this with Puneri dal(recipe #110187). For the rice, I substituted the butter with ghee and for the potatoes, I used a tsp. of red chilli powder instead of the chilli peppers and fresh mint leaves instead of parsley or corriander as I did not have both of those on hand. Mint made this oh so flavourful! You really must try this with mint leaves. This will be a regular on our table. Thank you for sharing such a nice recipe!
     

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Hi, I am German and I live with my husband Thorsten (Chef Thorsten)in the former German capital Bonn, a rather small town near Cologne at the river Rhine. I work in a teashop (a TeaGschwendner franchise shop, see my web site link) situated in a quaint little old house in the center of Bonn and like it a lot. I enjoy to make myself comfortable with a cup of tea and a book (an old cookbook is good).
 
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