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Lemon Potato With Sesame Seeds

Sujata Roy
Lemon potato with sesame seeds. This tangy spicy lemon flavoured dry potato curry can be served as a side dish or also as a snack. Very simple ingredients and easy to cook but taste is scrumptious. Serve as teatime snack with toothpick.
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Prep Time 4 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 14 minutes
Course Appetizer, Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine Indian
Servings 3 People

Equipment

  • 1 pressure cooker
  • 1 Pan
  • 1 Spatula
  • 1 Grater 

Ingredients
  

  • 14 small  boiled 
  • 1&1/2 tbsp Sesame seeds
  • ½ tsp Cumin seeds
  • 1/4 tsp Hing or asafoetida
  • 1 Dry red chilli
  • 1/2 inch Ginger  Grated 
  • 2 Green chilli Finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp Oil
  • Salt 
  • 2 tbsp  Curd or yogurt
  • 1 tsp Cumin powder
  • 1 t tsp Coriander powder
  • 1 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder
  • ½ tsp Turmeric powder
  • 2 tbsp  Cilantro or coriander leaves Chopped 
  • 7-8 Mint leaves Chopped 
  • 1-2 Green chilli Slit 
  • 2 tbsp  Water 
  • 2-3 tsp Lemon juice
  • 1/4 tsp Lemon zest
  • 1/2 tsp Dry roasted spice powder

Instructions
 

  •  Dry roast the sesame seeds till light brown. Transfer the seeds on a plate. 
  • Peel and cut the boiled potatoes into half. If you have too small potatoes then use whole potatoes. Just prick the potatoes with a fork. Or you can also use cubed large size boiled potatoes. 
  • In a bowl mix thick curd or yogurt with cumin powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and Kashmiri red chilli powder. Whisk everything well and keep aside. 
  •  Heat oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds, hing or asafoetida and dry red chilli.  When cumin seeds starts to splutter add grated ginger and chopped green chilli. Fry till ginger starts to change it’s colour. 
  •  Add potatoes and salt. Saute till potatoes becomes light golden brown. Keep stirring to avoid sticking to the bottom. 
  • Reduce the heat and add spices mixed curd or yogurt, water, chopped cilantro or coriander leaves, mint leaves and dry roasted sesame seeds. Reserve some sesame seeds for garnishing.
  • Also add 1-2 slit green chilli if using.  Saute till everything about to dried up. Keep stirring and cook on simmer to avoid curdling the yogurt.
  • Add lemon juice and lemon zest. Mix well.  When potatoes dried up completely add roasted spice powder.
  • Mix well and remove from heat. Taste and adjust salt if required.  Your spicy chatpata delicious lemon sesame potatoes are ready to serve.
  • Garnish with cilantro or coriander leaves, mint leaves and dry roasted sesame seeds.  Serve with any bread, puri, paratha or dal chawal. Or you can serve this as a snack. To serve as teatime snack or starter serve with some toothpick. 

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Notes

Mint leaves and slit green chili are optional. You can skip if you want.