Aloo Stew

My mom gave me this recipe when I requested for a vegetarian side with palappam during easter. This one is real good with only the garam masalas for spices.

Ingredients:
1) Potato - 1 kg
2) Butter or oil - one forth cup
3) Patta (dalcheeni) - 1 inch length - 3
4) Laung - 12
5) Ilaichi (cardamom) - 4
6) Thejpatha - 2
7) Pepper , cut into 2 halves - 1 desert sp

8) Onion - half cup(cut in length )
9) Green chilies - 3
10) Ginger - 1 desert sp
11) Garlic - 10
12) few Curry leaves

13) Maida - half desert sp
14) Vinnegar - 2 desert sp
15) Salt - to taste
16) Coconut first milk - half cup
17) Coconut second milk - 3 cup
18) Peper (whole)

Method:

1) Heat Oil or butter.
2) Put garam massala, ingredients 3-7
3) then put (8-12) ingredients & fry.
4) Then remove from oil and keep aside .
5) Put maida in remaining oil and fry for some time.
6) Then put potato and fry for some time.
7) Then put half vinegar, salt & second coconut milk and cook .
8) When potato is half cooked, put the fried masala (which is kept aside), remaining 1 desert sp vinegar & salt.
9) Put lid And cook well.
10) Then put first milk & stir well.
11) Stop boiling when it reaches required thickness.
12) Lastly, add the whole pepper.

Tip: You can add carrots or capsicum(bell pepper) when potato is half cooked. You can replace potato with chicken, to make a non-veg stew. This is yummy too.

Note: Coconut first milk is obtained when the scrapped coconut is first rinsed from grinder. The second milk is the milk rinsed the second time, and so on

Serves 6
Serving Suggestion: Serve with Pal Appam or Kerala style parotta