Aloo sabzi for vrat / fasting - A simple potato curry served during fasting/vrat on festivals like navaratri / ekadashi / mahashivratri etc.
Ingredients
Potato : 2 cups boiled
Oil: 1 tbsp
Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
Ginger: 1 1/2 tsp paste
Green chilies: 1 tsp paste
Water : 1 cup or as required
Salt :2 tsp or to taste
Sugar: 1 tsp
Lemon juice: 2 tsp
Fresh coriander/cilantro : 1 tbsp for garnishing
Roasted cumin powder: 1 tsp (optional)
Instructions
Pre-preparations
Boil the potatoes and once cool down peel off the skin.
Cut the potatoes into medium pieces. Mash half of potato using a masher for gravy.
Finely chop green chilies and ginger or make paste. Also finely chop fresh coriander leaves.
Making Aloo curry for fasting
Heat a tbsp of oil in a thick bottom non-stick pan. Once hot add cumin seeds.
Saute the cumin seeds until they turn brown.
Now add ginger and green chilies paste.
Saute ginger green chilies for 1 minute until the raw flavor or ginger is gone.
Add medium cut boiled potatoes. Mix well.
Add 1 cup water and let the sabzi simmer for 2-3 minutes on medium flame.
Put the mashed potatoes in the gravy and again simmer for 1 minute.
Season the curry by adding salt as per your taste.
Also add 1 tsp sugar and mix well.
Squeeze half a lemon juice in the sabji.
Let the curry simmer for 1 min.
Aloo sabzi for fasting/vrat is ready. Garnish the sabji with freshly chopped coriander/cilantro and some roasted cumin powder. Serve this curry hot along with some fasting recipes like rajgira paratha or rajgira puri.
Recipe by WeRecipes at https://werecipes.com/aloo-sabji-for-fasting-vrat-farali-aloo/