Potato Capsicum Curry

Potato capsicum curry is a delicious side dish for chapati, roti, appam, puttu, idiyappam and rice.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Potato Capsicum Curry.

Ingredients:-

Potato.                 -1 large
Capsicum.           -1
Onion.                 -1 big
Tomato.               -1 big
Ginger chopped.  -1tsp
Green chilly.        -1
Garlic chopped.    -5
Curry leaves.        -1sprig
Fennel seeds.        -1tsp
Red chilli powder.-1tsp
Turmeric powder. -1/4tsp
Coriander powder.-2 tsp
Grated coconut.    -1cup
Coconut oil.          -1tbsp
Salt.                       -to taste

Instructions:-

1). Remove the outer skin of potatoes.Chop the potatoes into medium thick pieces and boil in water till soft and keep aside.

2). Cut capsicum into halves and remove the seeds.Then chop capsicum into medium cubed pieces. Chop onion into thin lengthy slices.Chop ginger, garlic and tomatoes into small pieces.Slit green chilly lengthwise. Keep aside.

3). Grind grated coconut to a fine paste adding very little water. Keep aside the ground coconut paste.

Method:-

1). Heat 1tbsp coconut oil in a pan and add fennel seeds and saute well. Add onion slices into the pan and saute well till translucent.Add chopped garlic, ginger, slit green chilly and curry leaves into the pan and saute well till raw smell goes.

2). Add turmeric powder, red chilli powder and coriander powder into the pan and saute well.

3). Add chopped tomato and 1/2 cup of water into the pan and boil till the tomato becomes soft and mushy.

4). Add chopped capsicum into the pan and saute well for 3 minutes on medium flame.Add boiled potato pieces and saute well. Cover and cook for 2 minutes on low flame. Saute well in between.

5). Add ground coconut paste and 3/4 cup of water into the pan and mix well.Boil the curry on low flame for 2 minutes.Switch off the flame and transfer the potato curry to a serving plate.

Very tasty Potato Capsicum Curry is ready to serve with appam, idiyappam, puttu and rice.