Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, aloo poha - turmeric flavoured flattened rice with potato. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Aloo Poha or Potato Poha is a popular breakfast/snack recipe in Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh. Thus, this Aloo Poha is a dish made from flattened rice which is fried with potatoes, turmeric, onions, mustard seeds and some more ingredients. Aloo Poha or Kanda Batata Poha is a famous Indian breakfast dish made from flattened rice along with onion, potato and mild spices.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have aloo poha - turmeric flavoured flattened rice with potato using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Aloo Poha - Turmeric flavoured Flattened Rice with Potato:
- Make ready 2 cups Flattened Rice (Poha)
- Make ready 1 large Charlotte Potato (small diced)
- Prepare 2 Shallots or 1 medium Onion (small diced)
- Get 1/4 green chilli (finely chopped)
- Get 1 thumb size piece of ginger (finely chopped)
- Make ready 1 tablespoon Cooking Oil
- Get 1/4 teaspoon black mustard seeds
- Make ready 2-3 Curry leaves (optional)
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- Get 1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
- Take to taste Salt
- Make ready Pomegranate seeds to garnish
- Make ready Finely chopped coriander leaves to garnish
In Maharastra, it's served for breakfast with cubes of potato and spices. I grew up in boarding school and Poha was something we were served at least once a week. This version though is way better that my boarding school version - enjoy! Gujarati aloo poha recipe or batata poha - A perfect breakfast dish made from poha - flattened rice and batata - potato.
Steps to make Aloo Poha - Turmeric flavoured Flattened Rice with Potato:
- In a saucepan, heat the oil. Once the oil is to temperature, add the mustard seeds, curry leaves, finely chopped ginger and green chilli, diced Charlotte potato and onions. Stir to mix and add turmeric powder. Cover the saucepan and cook until the potatoes are cooked.
- In a colander, wash the flattened rice (poha) under running water until all the flattened rice is damp (but not soaking wet). Drain the water by gently shaking the colander.
- Once the potatoes are cooked, gently toss the flattened rice with cooked potatoes and onions.
- Season with salt, add sugar and lemon juice, gently mix and cook for 5 minutes on low heat. [avoid over mixing as this breaks the flattened rice]
- Take off the heat, transfer in a bowl, garnish with pomegranate seeds and chopped coriander. Serve warm.
I have added turmeric powder into the soaked poha. That way we get it evenly mixed with poha. Also when you add turmeric powder in poha it might look pale. Poha is one of my favourite, we make it atleast once a week, but mostly it is southindian way by adding coconut to it. But this recipe is new to me and it taste just Take poha in a bowl.
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