Kerala Style Potato Stew Recipe

Posted on Nov 30th, 2015

by Sowmya Venkatachalam

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Potato Stew is a very easy and simple dish of Kerala that goes well with Appam, Poori, Chapathi, Puttu, Idiyappam, or even with plain bread. Recently, I tasted this in my friend’s house. She served this yummy potato stew with brown rice Idiyappam and it tasted divine. My MIL used to grind the coconut and add the coconut paste to this stew, but my friend told that its conventional to use the coconut milk instead of grinding and adding the coconut paste. So, this time, I tried adding coconut milk and it turned out so yummy. Also, instead of adding only potato, I enriched with peas, carrot and beans to make it much healthier.

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Kerala Style Potato Stew Recipe

Preparation and Yield:

Preparation time	5 mins
Cooking Time	30 mins
Servings	5
Recipe Category	Main
Recipe Cuisine	South Indian

Kerala Style Potato Stew Recipe

Ingredients:

Potato	3
Onion	2
Green Chilli	3
Carrot	1
Beans	10
Green Peas	1/4 cup
Chopped ginger	1 tablespoon
Curry Leaves	few
Coconut Oil	1 tablespoon
Peppercorns	1 teaspoon
Pepper Powder	1/4 teaspoon
Thin Coconut Milk*	2 Cup
Thick Coconut Milk*	1 Cup
Salt	To Taste

* I have used the store bought coconut milk available in the tin. For thin coconut milk, i took a cup of coconut milk from the tin and added a cup of water.

For Seasoning:

Oil	1 tablespoon
Cinnamon Stick	1 inch stick
Cloves	3
Bay Leaf	1
Cardamom	2

Kerala Style Potato Stew Recipe

Method:

Heat a heavy bottomed pan and add oil. Add whole garam masalas and saute them in oil. To that, add the peppercorns, slit green chillies, curry leaves and chopped ginger and saute them all till you get a nice aroma out of the masala

Then, add the thinly sliced onions and saute them in oil till they turn translucent. When the onions are translucent, then add chopped potatoes, carrot, beans and peas and stir-fry in high flame for couple of minutes

Then add thin coconut milk along with salt and cook the veggies till they are nicely tender and soft

When the veggies are cooked completely, add the thick coconut milk and mix well. When the stew starts to boil, add coconut milk along with chopped curry leaves and pepper powder and mix well