Spicy Potato Roast - tasty side dish to accompany your favorite Sambar or Rassam !

Spicy Potato Roast - a very flavorful potato roast which will ensure you forget french fries forever ;)

Quantity - for 2 people

Ingredients-

Potatoes - 4/5 medium size
Mustard seeds - to temper
Cumin seeds - to temper
Haldi - to temper
Hing - to temper
Red chilli powder - 1 tbsp (as per spice)
Sambar powder (MIL made) - 1/2 tbsp
Salt - to taste
Peanut oil - for cooking

Procedure -

1. Wash the potatoes nicely and peel them .Cut into very thin slices - either long vertical or quarter shape. While cutting , put them in cold water with little salt - this avoids oxidation .
2. Now heat oil in a kadai for tadka - take good amount of oil (2tbsp) so that we get nice crunchy roast . Remember we have to roast the potatoes and not make them soft/soggy.
3. Once the oil is hot , put tadka items - mustard seeds , cumin seeds . Once these splutter , add haldi and hing and let it fry for 1 min .
4. Now drain the water from potatoes in a colander and put the potatoes in the hot tadka . Mix well .
5. After mixing for a min , add chilli powder and sambar masala and salt as required . Mix well to ensure all potatoes are coated with masala . If you think its less masala , add more . Be generous in adding spices as we want to get spicy roast as well .
6. Let it roast nicely on open medium flame . Do not cover the kadai at any point of time - this will make the potatoes soggy and soft .
7 . In about 8/10 mins , check to see if the potatoes are nicely cooked - use a fork to check . Once done , let it simmer on for 2/3 mins and switch off

Serve hot with steamed rice + your favourite sambar or rassam + ghee . Or you can also relish this with phulka or roti and ghee :)

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