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    Home » Recipes » Accompaniments

    Poori masala recipe | Potato masala for poori

    October 10, 2013 by Raks Anand 32 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    Poori masala recipe easy yet the perfect choice for poori, made for each other. With step by step pictures of preparation. So simple yet perfect with poori and even dosa.

    Poori masala recipe
    Potato masala for poori

    A perfect match for poori, you can prepare for breakfast or even brunch.

    Check out my Poori recipe to see how to make perfect ones to go with this. Do check out my mix veg saagu recipe.

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    I never thought I should post this potato masala (poori kizhangu) for poori in my blog.

    But I realized people google specifically from my blog using my blog name.

    Thought I should post this soon and 2 weeks back, I made this for a weekend breakfast.

    So that it can be useful for people who are new to cooking, bachelors and those who want to learn some basic south Indian breakfast recipes.

    I hope newly married and who are interested in cooking and in a learning process may find this helpful.

    I make this when I am lazy to make potato kurma / cauliflower kurma or mixed vegetable kurma for puri as my kid likes only kurma for puri.

    Even this poori kizhangu, he just calls as yellow kurma. I make this aloo masala with few variations and this is so versatile and use this as guidance you can make a lot of variations too according to your taste. I will mention the variations in the notes section.

    potato masala for poori
    Poori masala

    This recipe is so simple without any strong masalas and packed with south Indian flavours.

    Do not under estimate the side dish. Just make sure to salt and add green chillies to balance the taste.

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    potato masala for poori
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    Poori masala recipe

    Poori masala recipe easy yet the perfect choice for poori, made for each other. With step by step pictures of preparation. So simple yet perfect with poori and even dosa.
    Course Side Dish
    Cuisine Indian, South Indian
    Prep Time 10 minutes
    Cook Time 30 minutes
    Servings 4
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • 4 Potato
    • 3 Onion
    • 4 Green chilli
    • 1 tablespoon Chopped ginger
    • ½ Carrot finely chopped
    • ¼ teaspoon Turmeric
    • Salt as needed
    • ¼ teaspoon Sugar
    • 3 cups Water
    • 1 teaspoon Corn flour optional

    To temper

    • 1 tablespoon Oil
    • ½ teaspoon Mustard
    • 1 teaspoon Urad dal
    • 1 tablespoon Chana dal
    • 1 sprig Curry leaves
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    Instructions

    • Wash and cut potatoes into 4 and pressure cook for 3 whistles with little water.
    • Cool down, peel and keep it roughly mashed. Don't mash completely, just break into pieces roughly.
    • Heat kadai with oil and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table.
    • Add green chillies, ginger, thinly sliced onion (lengthwise) and fry until transparent. Take care not to burn it or change its colour. Just let it turn transparent.
    • Add carrots and fry for a minute in medium flame.
    • Add 3 cups water, turmeric, salt and sugar. Bring to boil.
    • Add the mashed potatoes. You can mash one or two pieces completely to make the masala thick as it boils.
    • Continue to boil for 10 minutes in medium flame or until the masala gets thick in consistency.
    • You can add corn flour dissolved in 2 tablespoon of water towards end to make the masala look homogeneously thick.

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    Notes

    • While boiling the masala wont be that yellow, but after cools down, it slowly gets more yellow, but add ¼ teaspoon as mentioned, otherwise it looks dull yellow.
    • My chillies were spicy, so added 4, if not, add more, otherwise the masala will be bland.
    • Instead of corn flour you can use besan/ chickpea flour/ kadalai mavu to thicken the masala.
    • You can add a teaspoon of coconut oil for extra flavour.
    • Other variations you can do:
      *Add crushed garlic in place of ginger.
      *Temper with cinnamon stick and use ginger garlic paste while frying onion and add ¼ cup ground coconut and 3 cashews towards end to make it thick and rich.
      * Add more vegetables like peas and beans along with carrot.
      *Grind ginger and green chilli and add to the boiling masala.
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    Poori masala instructions

    1. Wash and cut potatoes firstly into 4 and pressure cook for 3 whistles with little water. After that, cool down, peel and keep it roughly mashed. Don't mash completely, just break into pieces roughly. Then, heat kadai with oil and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table.
      step 1
    2. After that, add green chillies, ginger, thinly sliced onion (lengthwise) and fry until transparent. Take care not to burn it or change its colour. Just let it turn transparent. Then add carrots and fry for a minute in medium flame.
      step 2 poori masala recipe
    3. Add 3 cups water, turmeric, salt and sugar. Bring to boil. After that, add the mashed potatoes. You can mash one or two pieces completely to make the masala thick as it boils.step 3

    4. Continue to boil for 10 minutes in medium flame or until the masala gets thick in consistency.

    You can add corn flour dissolved in 2 tablespoon of water towards end to make the masala look homogeneously thick.

    step 4 boil

    Serve this masala with poori, or even with chapathi or rava idli too. Use the left over masala for making masala dosa.

    Poori masala recipe

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. AparnaRajeshkumar

      October 10, 2013 at 9:12 am

      always a classic combo !

      Reply
    2. umavarma

      October 10, 2013 at 10:05 am

      Thank you

      Reply
    3. CHITRA

      October 10, 2013 at 10:21 am

      I make similarly but never tried adding corn flour. must try this variation. Bright pictures !

      Reply
    4. Priya shakthi

      October 10, 2013 at 10:27 am

      Amazing combo, my all-time favorite

      Reply
    5. Priya shakthi

      October 10, 2013 at 10:35 am

      Dear Raks,

      I have become a very big fan of your recipes and you too. I have tried most of your recipes , all of them have never failed…AAAAAwesome. Every time I think of posting a comment yet couldn’t do with my busy schedule (recently delivered a baby girl… its quite an excuse though…) . I really appreciate the efforts you take to post each recipe … Hats off to you Raks… keep posting..

      Reply
    6. Sowmya Madhavan

      October 10, 2013 at 10:51 am

      Love the poori masala combo ..looks yumm

      Reply
    7. Aruna Manikandan

      October 10, 2013 at 11:54 am

      my favorite combo, love it 🙂
      looks perfect and delicious ...

      Reply
    8. Anu Shoj

      October 10, 2013 at 12:14 pm

      anything made with potatoes are my fav....this is my all time fav.....easy and tastes great....nice clicks....

      Reply
    9. Satya s

      October 10, 2013 at 12:31 pm

      My Fav combo... drooling here

      Reply
    10. prathibha Garre

      October 10, 2013 at 12:35 pm

      ever green favourite with poori...looks nice

      Reply
    11. Dipti Joshi

      October 10, 2013 at 1:03 pm

      I thought you are on diet 😉 . My favorite recipe for puri.

      Reply
    12. apsara-illam

      October 10, 2013 at 1:25 pm

      It looks very nice.
      My family always like this kurma.

      Reply
    13. jeyashri suresh

      October 10, 2013 at 2:04 pm

      Wonderful combo. All time fav. Pretty clicks

      Reply
    14. Gayathri Ramanan

      October 10, 2013 at 3:13 pm

      My all time fav , simply awesome and beautiful click...

      Reply
    15. Raks anand

      October 11, 2013 at 3:45 am

      Thank you Priya for your lovely comments 🙂

      Reply
    16. Veena Theagarajan

      October 11, 2013 at 12:47 pm

      nothing beats this combo.. Very nice clicks

      Reply
    17. Happys Cook

      October 11, 2013 at 4:05 pm

      delicious and yummy combo.....

      Reply
    18. MJ Delights

      October 12, 2013 at 8:46 am

      Love this combo..

      Reply
    19. mymoon

      October 12, 2013 at 6:48 pm

      definetly am the one of searchers with above mentioned words.itz because all recipes when I tried from ur blog will never let me down....and your wonderful tips make me to feel easy....i tried ur curice and lemon rice akka it came out veryyyyy wellll my hubby loves to take it as a lunch...lots of thanks by heartly akka

      Reply
    20. Hari Chandana P

      October 16, 2013 at 5:19 pm

      Classic combination.. looks yummy!!

      Reply
    21. swathi biswanath

      October 28, 2013 at 5:45 am

      Made this today. Replaced corn flour with besan. Good one. Am your fan. 🙂

      Reply
    22. Suganya

      October 29, 2013 at 1:20 am

      amma ellatha enaku amma samayal kathukudukkara mathiri unga blog .. whenever i start cooking first i see ur blog and then cook acc to ur step wise cooking .. learned lot from u thanks ...keep posting

      Reply
    23. Jaya Radha Veerasamy

      December 13, 2013 at 1:41 pm

      For years I have been making puri unsuccessfully! Your recipe made it perfect! Thank you!

      Reply
    24. Divya D

      December 17, 2013 at 10:47 am

      good one

      Reply
    25. Divya D

      December 17, 2013 at 10:47 am

      have tried most of the recipes from your blog. none of them failed. thanks a lot. pls could you post recipes on baking cakes in microwave only?

      Reply
    26. Reni Sebastian

      March 02, 2014 at 9:15 am

      Hi Raks it is awsm. Ttried last day. Thanks.added some res crushed chilly while tempering and added some cow molk att end.good one tthank u once again

      Reply
    27. Stella mary

      April 05, 2014 at 3:50 pm

      Hmmmmm yummy.......

      Reply
    28. Hajra Aziz

      July 07, 2014 at 8:02 am

      have you ever tried aalo chana & suji halwa with puri's, famous as Lahori chikar cholay & halwa puri nashta, served with khata pyaaz, achar & lassi?

      Reply
    29. dija rathor

      October 10, 2015 at 9:32 am

      I like 2 make Indian recipes. Nd I appreciate the procedures of description by posting pic

      Reply
    30. Rishsesha

      August 21, 2016 at 9:54 am

      Hai raks sister.i tried yesterday tis recipe...so yummy.thank you..so many recipes I tried..all come out very well thank u again...

      Reply
    31. gunny

      February 07, 2017 at 1:24 pm

      I made this last week it was great, in replace of corn flour I powdered Pottu Kadala.

      Reply
    32. chan4kalai

      April 20, 2017 at 1:35 am

      Sooooo nice.... Thanks for receipe

      Reply

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