Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Potato and tomato Indian style

Okay...school has been insane and all other time has been spent working on the homestead, working at my job or the occasional kayaking....so lets try again with the food accountability. So, tonight I had a bunch of local tomatoes about to go and I had a bunch of little potatoes from the CSA. I decided an Indian style dish might do. So I looked up some Indian recipes an improvised on an Aloor Dam recipe. So, basically, I boiled the potatoes but left the skins on, unlike the original recipe. I then sliced them and fried them a little in olive oil...then removed to a plate. I chopped up a large piece of ginger and some tomatoes. I sautéed the ginger slices with coriander, Garam masala, curry and dry mustard. Them tossed the tomatoes in and then the potatoes and let simmer for about 5 min. It came out really good...very light seasoning though I used more than called for, about a tablespoon for each. I served it with a cucumber and squash salad...very simply used a carrot grator to make very thin slices of the cucumber and squash, squeezed 2 fresh lemons and some olive oil on to the salad with a pinch of course salt and tossed. We finished the meal with some fresh cold local watermelon...and treated the featherheads to the same.