Baby potato fry is a simple South Indian style potato fry made with cooked baby potatoes, basic spice powders, mustard seeds and curry leaves. The potatoes are coated with the spices and roasted until golden and flavorful.
It makes an easy side dish for rice, especially with rasam or sambar and is simple enough for a weekday lunch.
Check out my Small potato pepper fry recipe and Schezwan style baby potato gravy in this website.
About Baby potato fry
This is a recipe sent to me by a reader (Rathy Kumar). I wanted to try it out for long time. But whenever I buy small potatoes, I make small potato biryani. So this time I told myself to try this curry and see.
She said this can be done by making balls out of mashed potatoes too, but I wanted to try with baby potatoes only. And finally made this. Her recipe is bit different with spice powder, I made it as a lazy version I should admit.
But it was really good and both Aj , Vj loved it. Its very simple and only the skin peeling part is time consuming, you can watch tv or talk over phone to make it easy.
Step by Step Images
1. Pressure cook baby potatoes with enough water for 2-3 whistles. Peel off the skin and keep aside. You can also boil them in open pot until fork tender and then cool, peel, use too.
Heat a kadai with oil and temper with mustard and curry leaves.
2. Put the flame to low and add asafoetida, red chilli powder, turmeric, dhaniya powder and give it a quick stir. Don't let the powders get burn, so the oil should not be fuming before you add the powders.
3. Add salt, 2 tablespoon water and the cooked potatoes. Give it a mix. The water ensures salt and spice are infused inside the potatoes.
4. Add jeera/ roasted cumin powder and roast well in medium flame until oil oozes out and turns golden brown here and there.
Serve as an accompaniment for rice with rasam or sambar. You can eat as such too.
My notes
- You can add crushed garlic while adding curry leaves for a wonderful flavor.
- While pan-frying the spice powders, do it in a low heat or even switch off the heat if it is too hot while adding it.
- Finish with lot of fresh herbs like coriander leaves or parsley for a great flavor.
Recipe card
Baby Potato Fry Recipe
Ingredients
- 35 Baby potatoes Small potato, mine was really tiny
- 1 tablespoon Red chilli powder Mild, Kashmiri chilli powder
- 1 teaspoon Coriander powder
- ¼ teaspoon Turmeric
- 2 pinch Asafoetida
- ¼ teaspoon Roasted cumin seeds powder
- Salt
To temper
- 1 tablespoon Oil
- ½ teaspoon Mustard
- 1 sprig Curry leaves
Instructions
- Pressure cook baby potatoes with enough water for 2-3 whistles.
- Peel off the skin and keep aside.
- Heat a kadai with oil and temper with mustard and curry leaves.
- Put the flame to low and add asafoetida, red chilli powder, turmeric, coriander powder and give it a quick stir.
- Don't let the powders get burn, so the oil should not be fuming before you add the powders.
- Add salt, 2 tablespoon of water and the cooked potatoes. Give it a mix.
- Add jeera powder and Roast well in medium flame until oil oozes out and turns golden brown here and there.
Notes
- In the original recipe she sent, she had powdered 2 red chillies and ¼ teaspoon jeera and added towards end and made it super spicy and hot.
- She had also garnished with few cashew nuts and feel free to try that..
Sarada Subramaniam says
Very tempting.....my husband's favourite....thank you raks!!!
Sarada Subramaniam says
Very tempting.....my husband's favourite....thank you raks!!!
Veena Theagarajan says
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Rathy Kumar says
Thanks Raks for posting!!
Veena Theagarajan says
looks yum! I do add garlic to it. this version looks great!
Rani Vijoo says
Tempting potato fry...Nice clicks too 🙂
Pallavi says
I do it by adding the sambhar powder instead:) Looks very tempting!!
Anonymous says
Any recipe with baby potatoes can be made any way and it would still be a winner! This one looks delicious!
Shobha
divya's kitchen diaries says
looks delicious yummy
R says
spicy and delicious, great color too!
Sathya Priya says
I just dont add cumin powder ...They look super tempting ,With moor kulmabhu this taste great
Sindhujabalaji says
Omg...simple d yummy curry....i usually marinate small potao wt spicepowders..urs seems instant one....keep rocking
Sindhujabalaji says
Omg...simple d yummy curry....i usually marinate small potao wt spicepowders..urs seems instant one....keep rocking
Kalaivani Dhinesh says
tempting...as always...
ambika clyton says
very tempting recipe... goes very well with sambar rice. I do prepare in same way with slight variations. I marinate the boiled, peeled baby potatoes with salt, turmeric powder,chilli powder, pepper powder, oil,lemon juice and curry leaves and leave it in the refrigerator or as such in room temperature for 15 min and then temper with mustard and jeera until golden and crisp. tastes yummy.
Mitha says
this is the same way I make this too except nuts and jeera powder.
SHARMILEE J says
Looks super spicy and tempting with the lunch combo!
Vani Sundar says
Superb, yummy and mouthwatering recipe.
Unknown says
Very simple and tasty recipe. It goes very well with rice especially curd rice. I prepare this with small variation. In beggining along with chilli powder also include ginger garlic paste. At end add little bit of pepper powder.
Unknown says
Removing the skins of baby potato is the most difficult part here. Can we do without?
Raks anand says
Without removing the skin, the masala won't be absorbed well. If it's ok, you can proceed. If you cook properly, it comes off easily.