Aloo Ki Sabzi

Potatoes are the best among all the vegetables to fall back on. Always there at home, long shelf life, quick and easy to make, last but not the least, tasty.
This particular recipe is the easy and simple one with minimum masalas.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes - 3
• Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Coriander Seeds - 1/4 tsp
• Urad Dal - 1/2
• Green chillies - 2 or to taste
• Curry Leaves - 1 spring
• Mustard Oil ( or any other oil ) - 2 tbsp
• Salt - to taste
• Amchoor - 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Lemon Juice - 1 tsp
• Chopped Cilantro - to garnish

Directions:

• Boil the potatoes, peel and dice them.

• In a pan, heat oil. Splutter mustard seeds, and cumin seeds. Add coriander seeds and urad dal. Fry till  they start to change the color.
• Add chopped chillies, curry leaves and turmeric powder. 
• Add diced potatoes. Give it a toss till all the potatoes are well coated with the tempering. 
• Add half a cup of water and cover and cook for about 7-10 minutes, stirring occasionally to avoid burning. 
• Add salt and amchoor. Mix well. 
• Turn off the heat. Add lemon juice and chopped cilantro on the top. 

Serve hot with chapati or puri.
You can even use this curry in between two toasts and make aloo sandwich, however, when you want to stuff it inside the sandwich , it would be better if the potatoes are mashed a bit.

Variation:  Well this recipe, as mentioned in the introduction, is the plain and simple one. You could obviously make it more interesting by adding few other ingredients, like onion, ginger, garlic, tomatoes or other masalas like garam masala, coriander powder, red chili powder etc.