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Cashew potato curry















Ingredients

For 4
For 100
Potatoes
125gms (2 medium)
3.25kg
Cashewnuts (preferably green tender ones)
75gms
1.8kg
Red chillies
2
50gms
Turmeric
¼ tsp
25gms
Coriander
1 tbsp
200gms
Cumin
a pinch
25gms
Lime
½
12
Onions
2 (200gms)
6kg
Green chillies
2
50gms
Ginger
10gms
250gms
Garlic
4 cloves
50gms
Coconut
½
12
Oil
2 tbsp
625ml
Curry leaves
1 spring
1 bunch
Curry seeds
1 spring
1 bunch
Mustard seeds
a pinch
10gms
Salt
to taste 
100gms


Peel and cut potatoes into 5 cm (2”) pieces. Soak cashewnuts in hot water. Grate coconut. Extract coconut milk from three – fourth of the coconut (twice). Boil cashewnuts and potatoes in the second extraction of coconut milk. Grind to a fine paste the remaining coconut, red chillies, coriander, turmeric and cumin. Slice onions and slit green chillies. Slice ginger and garlic. Heat the oil. Add mustard and curry leaves. When seeds splutter add ground spices and slice ingredients. Cook till onions are soft. Add cooked vegetables, lime juice and salt. Simmer for 10 minutes. Add the first extraction of coconut milk and simmer for 5 minutes. Test for seasoning and remove.