Sweet Heavens' Potatoes

Last week has been incredibly busy, it’s been a week since my last post. I’ve been writing this article I promised my friend, that along with taking care of my baby, who’s become so super clingy suddenly, left me with little time to do anything save sending off an e-mail to my new friend Siri with my answer to the Open Sesame 2 edition.

I also had unexpected visitors last week. Unexpected visitor = unexpected and quick recipes! Ooh! I am pretty daring that way – and have previous history in trying out first time recipes on unsuspecting friends and family!

So here’s something that came up – This is my own, original recipe, any resemblance to a similar recipe is purely unintentional and co-incidental. I call it Sweet Heavens’ Potatoes. Goes down very well with Mushroom & Dill Rice – the recipe of which I’ll post another day when I get around to taking a pic.

I am entering the recipe to this new event I came across at Culinarty by Lore the Original Recipe Culinarty Roundup. If you want to try it too, click the logo above!

Now for some heavenly potatoes or as I call it - Sweet Heavens' Potatoes.

Chief Ingredients:
Large Potatoes – 2
Oil – for frying

For the Gravy:
Onion – 1 medium
Tomatoes – 2 medium
Garlic – 2 large pods
Capsicum pepper – 1 small
Coriander/Cilantro – for garnishing
Gingelly (Sesame) Oil – 2 Tbsp
Soy Sauce – 1 tsp
Sugar – 1 Tbsp
Salt to taste

Method:
1. Quarter the potatoes, then cut thick slices out of each quarter. Shallow fry, drain excess oil, arrange in a dish and keep aside.

2. Finely chop the onions, tomatoes & garlic. And cut the capsicum lengthwise.

3. Heat Gingelly/sesame oil in a deep pan - for this dish to be ‘heavenly’ you must use gingelly oil - and when the oil is hot enough, drop in the onions and garlic and sauté till golden brown.

4. Add the tomatoes and cook till oil leaves the sides.

5. Drop in the capsicum, stir it about for a minute, just leave it crunchy.

6. Add sugar, salt and mix for a minute.

7. Add the soy sauce, and check if all the seasoning taste fine.

8. Remove from fire, spoon over the potatoes & finally garnish with coriander or cilantro.

It’s a sweet, saucy dish – so all you need is some steamed rice to go with it!