Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Batate Song

Why is this called a song? Is it a gana or is it pretending (Marathi : song). None. It is a very rustic flavor, appeals to the heart. It compliments a very simple meal like Khichadi. My tray was divine with this trio of Batate Song, Khichadi and Shevayi Kheer.

Ashwini has been away very long but her blog is still an inspiration. Her pictures are so alluring. This Batate song had first attracted me in her post, A 'song' for JFI Chillies.

Then recently it made an appearance again on   Aayi's recipes Potato in coconut curry(Batate Song)

On one Sunday this became our meal.

This goes to One hot stove's Blog Bites 9: The Holiday Buffet 
Ingredients

2-3 Boiled potatoes
1 onion diced fine
2 teaspoon oil
salt to taste

The masala
3-4 red Byadgi chilies
1 marble sized ball of tamarind
1-2 tablespoon fresh grated coconut

Dry roasted chilies and coconut till nutty in the wok. Then ground the chilies, tamarind and coconut with a little water into a paste.

Then fried the onions till pinkish and slightly caramelizing. Add the boiled potatoes at this point. I skinned and cubed them. Salt the dish. Cover and cook for 5 mins. Then add the masala and cook for another 5-7 mins. It is ready to serve. 

When using bolied potatoes make sure you use well cooked ones. Since we use tamarind in the masala paste the potato cubes shrink and become tight. Cooking them further after adding the tamarind paste is not possible. Goes well with a maincourse that is bland and makes even a simple khichadi enjoyable with Batate Song for company.

8 comments:

  1. hi there,
    loved the recipe and it is bookmarked !

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  2. Droolworthy batate song, very comforting food..

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  3. Thanks for the entry, Anjali! I agree that the trio of lunch dishes is divine!

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  4. hehe even i was thinking why is it called song, anyways liked your combination for sunday meal. You have nice collection of plates too to serve the food.
    http://subhiksa.blogspot.com/

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  5. Loved ur lunch tray....very simple but amazing stuff..

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  6. With so many of you saying you loved it. Let's sing the Batate song~~~ Nupur you are going to get some more, Dec25 deadline gives a lot of scope. Thanks Gals!

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  7. Yumm! One of my favourite potato dishes!!

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