simple potato salad
while fancy foods and the silver-platters delight us all, i am a big eat-healthy-but-tasty-foods person. i do not think that unless we're professionally into cooking, we bake each day, or roast chicken every meal, or make five sumptous foods for each meal all the time. we do not always eat an elaborate spread when we also have 9-5 jobs to keep. so i strongly suspect that my blog is going to have a lot of food that we really eat with the readily available home ingredients.
i'm starting with a very quick simple hot potato salad which can be dished up anytime, either as a quick snack, or as a side dish with a meal.
ingredients
potatoes - boiled (take as many as you need depending on if it's for a side dish or a salad meal). cut the boiled potatoes into square small pieces
chopped oninons, not too fine
chopped tomatoes, not too fine
chopped cucumber, not too fine
salt, pepper
chaat-masala
lime
garnish
finely chopped coriander (optional)
recipe
take a tawa (pan) and put a table spoon of oil. when the oil is hot, add the onions and toss. keep the flame high. toss for 30 seconds and then add the tomatoes. toss for 1 minute and add the cucumber. now add the potatoes and toss again. add salt and pepper to taste. add a pinch of chaat-masala and keep it on high-flame for 2 minutes. keep tossing continously so that none of the ingredients cook too much, and remain crunchy. squueze some fresh lime on the salad and garnish with coriander.
the salad is ready !
variations
the best part about this salad is that apart from the basic potatoes, onions, tomatoes, a lot of ingredients can be added depending on individual tastes and availability. a few options are listed.
chopped carrots can be added - add this if you like carrots or a sweet flavour in your foods.
chopped peppers - peppers have an individual flavour, but go very well with this recipe. if you are not a peppers person, very finely chop them so that they do not rebel in the food but you still get the flavour.
peanuts - they can be either crushed and added or put as whole nuts.
red chilli powder or finely chopped green chillies - if you want to spice up the salad, add either/both of these
i'm starting with a very quick simple hot potato salad which can be dished up anytime, either as a quick snack, or as a side dish with a meal.
ingredients
potatoes - boiled (take as many as you need depending on if it's for a side dish or a salad meal). cut the boiled potatoes into square small pieces
chopped oninons, not too fine
chopped tomatoes, not too fine
chopped cucumber, not too fine
salt, pepper
chaat-masala
lime
garnish
finely chopped coriander (optional)
recipe
take a tawa (pan) and put a table spoon of oil. when the oil is hot, add the onions and toss. keep the flame high. toss for 30 seconds and then add the tomatoes. toss for 1 minute and add the cucumber. now add the potatoes and toss again. add salt and pepper to taste. add a pinch of chaat-masala and keep it on high-flame for 2 minutes. keep tossing continously so that none of the ingredients cook too much, and remain crunchy. squueze some fresh lime on the salad and garnish with coriander.
the salad is ready !
variations
the best part about this salad is that apart from the basic potatoes, onions, tomatoes, a lot of ingredients can be added depending on individual tastes and availability. a few options are listed.
chopped carrots can be added - add this if you like carrots or a sweet flavour in your foods.
chopped peppers - peppers have an individual flavour, but go very well with this recipe. if you are not a peppers person, very finely chop them so that they do not rebel in the food but you still get the flavour.
peanuts - they can be either crushed and added or put as whole nuts.
red chilli powder or finely chopped green chillies - if you want to spice up the salad, add either/both of these
posted by Geetika at 10:55 PM
1 Comments:
me actually makes this sometimes... but I go with peppers (nice recco there) and some dahi... I cook the potatoes in the microwave and skip the pan part. :D makes things healthier. Serve it cold.
And if you prefer a simpler taste some time, try rock salt instead of chaat masala.
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