Easy Potato rice recipe
This potato rice recipe is very easy to make and can be made within 20 to 25 minutes. So if you are in a hurry you can make this in a jiffy and can pack and give as a lunch box recipe for your kids.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- Cooked rice - 3 bowls
- Potato - 3 medium sized sliced to thin pieces
- Onion - 2 big, cut lengthwise
- Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- Curry leaves - little
- Green chilli - 1 or 2
- Ginger garlic paste- 1 tsp
- Oil - 3 tbsp
- Salt - as per taste
- Turmeic - 1/4 tsp
- Chilli powder 1/2 tsp
- Biryani Masala / garam Masala- 2 tsp
- Water - little to sprinkle
- Lemon juice - from 1/2 lemon optional
- Coriander leaves for garnishing
Instructions
- Add oil in a pan and when hot add the cumin seeds and fry for a min.
- Add curry leaves now. Fry again.
- Now add the onion and green chilli and saute them. Add in the ginger garlic paste and saute till raw smell goes off.
- Once the onion is translucent, add in the spices potatoes and keep cooking for 6 to 7 min without any spices.
- Add salt, turmeric, chilli powder Nd biryani Masala. Mix them well.
- Sprinkle little water and cook until potatoes are well cooked. Check whether the potatoes are cooked well by pressing then slightly and that they break easily.
- Add in the cooked rice and mix well so that Masala coats well.
- Adjust salt and spicies if needed.
- Cover and Cook for 5 to 6 min in low flame.
- Now add the lemon juice if needed and mix again.
- Garnish with Coriander leaves and serve hot.