Batate Song – a Konkani style spicy potato curry
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About Batate Song
Batate Song is a spicy curry made with potato, onions and spices. It is a traditional Konkani dish and pairs well with steamed rice and Dalitoy. Made with few basic ingredients, this curry turns out delicious and gets made quickly.
The term ‘Song’ in the context of Konkani cuisine does not refer to the English word song as in ‘music’. Instead it comes from the Konkani language. In Konkani the term ‘song’ refers to a type of gravy commonly used in many dishes. Hence, Batate Song refers to potatoes cooked in a spicy gravy.
List of ingredients to make Batate Song
Veggies : Potatoes and Onion
Spices : Byadgi red chillies, coriander seeds, fenugreek seeds, mustard seeds
Other ingredients : curry leaves, tamarind, coconut oil and salt
Step-wise recipe to make Batate Song
Wash the potatoes and place it in a pressure cooker. Add 2 cups of water and pressure cook for 4 to 5 whistles.
. To make the masala, heat a pan and add few drops of coconut oil. Add dry red chillies and roast for few seconds.
Remove the chillies once roasted. Add coriander seeds and methi seeds. Roast for few seconds.
Allow the roasted ingredients to cool completely. Transfer the roasted ingredients to a mixer jar.
Add tamarind and little water.
Blend to a fine paste. Keep aside.
Once the pressure cooker cools down, remove the potatoes, peel and chop them. Keep aside.
Heat 2 tsp of coconut oil. Add mustard seeds, curry leaves and chopped onions. Sprinkle some salt and saute.
Cover and cook till onion turns soft. Add the masala paste and saute.
Rinse the mixer jar and add that water. Mix well and cook on low flame till the masala is well roasted.
Add boiled, chopped potatoes. Mix well.
Add some water and mix well. Add salt as per taste.
Cover and cook on low heat for 1 to 2 minutes.
Serve hot with rice, roti or dosa.
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Batate Song | Konkani style spicy potato curry
Ingredients
- 2 potatoes
- 1 large onion
- 6 to 7 Byadgi red chillies
- 1 tsp coriander seeds
- 3 to 4 fenugreek seeds (methi seeds)
- a marble sized ball of tamarind
- 2 tsp plus few drops of coconut oil
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- few curry leaves
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Wash the potatoes and place it in a pressure cooker.
- Add 2 cups of water and pressure cook for 4 to 5 whistles.
- To make the masala, heat a pan and add few drops of coconut oil.
- Add dry red chillies and roast for few seconds.
- Remove the chillies once roasted.
- Add coriander seeds and methi seeds. Roast for few seconds.
- Allow the roasted ingredients to cool completely.
- Transfer the roasted ingredients to a mixer jar.
- Add tamarind and little water. Blend to a fine paste. Keep aside.
- Once the pressure cooker cools down, remove the potatoes, peel and chop them. Keep aside.
- Heat 2 tsp of coconut oil. Add mustard seeds, curry leaves and chopped onions. Sprinkle some salt and saute. Cover and cook till onion turns soft.
- Add the masala paste and saute.
- Rinse the mixer jar and add that water.
- Mix well and cook on low flame till the masala is well roasted.
- Add boiled, chopped potatoes. Mix well.
- Add some water and mix well.
- Add salt as per taste.
- Cover and cook on low heat for 1 to 2 minutes.
- Serve hot with rice, roti or dosa.
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