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Jeera Aloo is a North Indian staple food which is often served as a side dish and normally goes well with hot puris, chapatti, roti or dal. Its main ingredients are potatoes, cumin seeds and Indian spices. This is a no onion no garlic version of Jeera Aloo and its pretty quick and easy. We can also make this Jeera aloo with onion, garlic and tomato. Since this is a no onion no garlic, we can make this delicious dry curry during fasting days like Ekadashi, Navratri fasting or other festival days. Even we stuff the jeera aloo as a filling kathi roll like we make paneer filling.

Jeera aloo can be made very mild or we can enrich with more spices to make it more interesting. This version of Jeera aloo is not very mild or spicy. Even for Pulao, Biryani or even for South Indian rice varieties this curry would be a perfect accompaniment.

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We need to cook potato till its just done. Do not cook till its mushy. The potatoes should be cooked but more firmer.
We can boil the potatoes in open pan or we can pressure cook the potatoes for 2-3 whistles.
Allow the cooked potatoes to cool off completely before you cut into cubes.
Instead of red chili powder, we can just spice up only with green chili so the potatoes looks even more appealing and appetizing.
Generally I don't add hing if I add ginger or onion as they overpower the hing. But if you like, you can add hing.
Amchoor powder gives a nice tangy flavor to the jeera aloo curry. If you don't have you can skip.

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INSTRUCTIONS WITH STEP BY STEP PICTURES:

COOKING POTATO

Wash and take potatoes in a vessel. Place it in pressure cooker and pressure cook for 3 whistles.

Allow the pressure to release naturally and take out the cooked potato, drain water. Add cold water and peel the potatoes.

Cut the potatoes into medium size cubes and set it aside.

TEMPERING

Heat fhee in a pan. Add cumin seed and allow it to sputter.

Then add chopped green chili, ginger and saute for a min.

MAKING JEERA ALOO

Next, add turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder and amchoor powder. Mix the spices well.

Now, add the cubed potatoes to the pan along with salt and toss well with the spices.

Allow the potato to get cooked in low flame with all the spices for about 2 mins.

Finally garnish with fresh coriander leaves.

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