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    Home » Delicious-Sides » Dry Curry » Potato Podimas – Southindian style mashed potatoes

    Potato Podimas – Southindian style mashed potatoes

    Dec 19, 2017 · Modified: Dec 20, 2020 by Priya_Srinivasan ·

    Podimas, a classic mash dish from Southindia. This was the original dish, planned for day 1 post, but then i somehow changed mind and did Beets mash. I normally make Vazhaikaai podimas at home, mash with green plantains. Potato podimas is least favored by kids, they love crispy potatoes or in a gravy, like dubki wale aloo and raswale potato curry. 
    Potato curry, Simple potato curry, southindian style potato curry

    When i made this today, my elder gave a dirty look asking, why did you kill them? 😆 But when i served the same for dinner along with dosa, he loved it. Some dishes need a perfect pairing. I love this podimas with hot hot rasam rice. They just blend with the rice and gives nice texture to the dish,you need to try it to believe it.
    A relatively easy dish, which can be done in flat 15 minutes, all you need is boiled potatoes, it just needs to be seasonned well.  Try this and enjoy with rice/roti or your dosa!

    Ingredients
    4 medium sized potatoes
    2 tablespoon oil
    ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
    2 nos red chilies, broken
    1 teaspoon urad dal
    ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
    a pinch of hing/asafoetida
    a string of curry leaf
    1.5 teaspoon sambar powder (u can also use 1 teaspoon red chili powder and 1 teaspoon coriander powder)
    ½ teaspoon salt or to taste
    fresh coriadner for garnish

    Method

    • Wash, peel and chop the potatoes into chunks. Cook them either on stove-top or in the microwave until soft. Once they are cooked, drain and keep aside.
    • In a wide pan, add oil, spluter mustard seeds, add curry leaves, red chili and hing. Next add urad dal and let it turn golden brown.
    • Now add the soft potatoes to this and mash with a potato masher. Add sambar powder, tumeric powder and salt. Mix well.
    • Sprinkle little water, cover and cook for 5 minutes in a simmer flame, for the spices to blend well. Take it off the heat garnish with coriander leaves, and serve warm with rice/roti/dosa.

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    Comments

    1. Sangeetha Nambi

      December 20, 2017 at 1:37 am

      My most favorite recipe !!

      http://recipe-excavator.blogspot.com

      Reply
    2. vaishali sabnani

      December 20, 2017 at 2:56 am

      Lol ! Killed them ! I love the statement Kids come up with !
      And these potatoes sound so flavourful , your description of how to eat with rasam and rice makes me drool .

      Reply
    3. Rafeeda AR

      December 20, 2017 at 10:18 am

      Those "killed potatoes" look so delicious! Hehe… especially you saying it with rasam rice… I am full with lunch but still feeling hungry at the thought…

      Reply
    4. Srivalli

      December 20, 2017 at 12:15 pm

      This is no doubt one of the most loved forms of potato!

      Reply
    5. MySpicyKitchen

      December 20, 2017 at 2:43 pm

      Haha, kids are funny! This podimas looks delicious and versatile to serve with dosa or rice. A good one for mashed theme.

      Reply
    6. Priya Suresh

      December 22, 2017 at 5:54 pm

      Even i love podimas with rasam rice, lol kids are so cute. Lovely way to serve podimas with dosas.

      Reply
    7. Preeti

      December 23, 2017 at 1:52 pm

      Love your recipe.. looks awesome and tasty.

      Reply
    8. Harini R

      December 24, 2017 at 2:35 am

      My family can live just on potatoes and so this is on the top of their list!

      Reply
    9. Chef Mireille

      December 29, 2017 at 4:53 am

      I have plantain podimas on my blog – you know my plantain obsession:) potato version looks super delish also

      Reply
    10. Pavani

      January 04, 2018 at 10:41 pm

      Potato Podimas are one of my favorite too — right after crispy potato fry. Great side dish to rice or dosa. Yumm!!

      Reply

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