Saturday, March 20, 2010

Dill leaves and Potato -ballet style !





Dill leaves look beautiful . Tiny fern like plants. It’s nice to wash them in water than subject them to heat and gross red chillies. Anyways...people need to eat.

Cutting them is a little time consuming as you need to remove the semi hard stem separately. Chop a bunch of them and meanwhile pressure cook 2 large potatoes.

For seasoning you need urad dal,dry red chillies,mustard seeds,hing and cumin seeds. Put all of these in a warm non stick pan and add oil. Once urad dal is slightly brown and the mustard seeds splutter,add the potatoes,dill ,2 chopped green chillies,3 cloves of garlic mashed and turmeric.

Here’s where the ballet comes in picture. You need to be careful while mixing the stuff. Your hand goes ,literally in those graceful ballet moves and you need to move your torso also in the direction of your hand. Ok, that was exaggeration.

The semi cooked potato has a tendency of sticking to the pan like Yash Chopra had of sticking to SRK all the fore years!. So mix it,the stuff in the pan ,carefully,rounding off from the sides. Then for 5 minutes,cook covered. Open and mix. Ensure they don’t burn (needless to say) and cover again for 5 minutes.

Serve (if successful) with steamed rice or ofcourse,whatever you have.

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