Potato Rice

Potato Rice

This is rice Pulav with Potato chips (French Fries) and fried onions. Making French Fries is little time consuming; otherwise it’s an easy recipe. It tastes awesome.

Ingredients

Raw Rice 1 cup

Medium size Potatoes 5

Medium size Onions 2

Coriander leaves Chopped 1 teaspoon

Cashew nuts pieces 2 teaspoon

Raisins (Khishmish) 1 teaspoon

Curry leaves 1 teaspoon

Black pepper 10 peppercorns

Cinnamon ½ inch

Cloves 5-6

Green Chilly Paste 1 teaspoon

Sugar ¾ teaspoon

Lemon Juice 1 teaspoon

Desi Ghee / Clarified Butter 1 teaspoon

Cumin Seeds (Jeera) ½ teaspoon

Asafoetida (Hing) a pinch

Salt to taste

Oil to deep fry french fries

Instructions

1. Wash rice and keep aside for 30 minutes.

2. Peel and cut potatoes in French fries shape

3. Chop onion into thin slices

4. Heat oil and deep fry French fries and spread them on a kitchen towel; sprinkle little salt

5. Fry onion slices till light brown

6. Fry cashew nuts, raisins

7. In a pan, heat desi ghee

8. Add cumin seeds and wait till splutter

9. Add Asafoetida

10. Add black pepper, cinnamon, cloves and curry leaves

11. Add chilly paste

12. Add washed rice and sauté till rice is dry

13. Add twice the amount of boiling water (or as much as required to cook rice) to rice.

14. At this stage, I transferred the rice to rice cooker and cooked it; if you don’t want to use rice cooker, cook covered in the same pan till rice is almost cooked

15. Add French Fries, fried onion and cashew nuts, raisins; mix well and cook it for 5 more minutes

16. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot with curd or Raita (Curd mixed with Cucumber or Onions). It’s yummy.