This is so easy to make and tastes so much better than your usual baked potato. The humble potato has wonderfully fragrant and spicy ingredients added to produce a very tasty snack.
Serves 4
Ingredients:
- 3 large baking potatoes
- 1 teaspoon grated ginger
- 5-6 fresh green chillies 2 chopped finely to add to the curry and 2 or 3 for garnishing
- small bunch of coriander
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon coarse pepper
- 1 teaspoons sugar (optional)
- 1-2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice (optional)
- 2 tablespoons of cooking oil (I used sunflower oil)
- 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds
- 2 teaspoons sesame seeds
- ¼ cup almonds
- ½cup ground nuts (monkey nuts)
- ¼cup cashew nuts
- Fresh curry leaves (optional)
Method:
- Microwave the potatoes . I usually wash them, score them and cover them with wet kitchen paper whist cooking in the microwave. Mine took 14 minutes at 1000 watts. Allow the potatoes to cool. Once cooled, peel the potato. Peeling is easy if you have scored the potatoes. Once peeled, cut them into very small cubes.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of oil and add the cumin seeds and all the nuts. Once the cumin seeds go dark, add the diced potatoes to the oil and add the salt, pepper, chopped green chillies, grated ginger, coriander to the mixture and stir again.
- Add the lemon and sugar if you like it sweet and sour like me and serve the potato snack hot.
Recipe by kind permission of Give Me Some Spice