Aloo Poha
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Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Goan
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Serves: 2-3
 
Aloo Poha or Batat Fov is a very easy poha preparation made very often for breakfast.
Ingredients
  • Poha: 1.5 cups
  • Green Chilly: 2 slit vertically
  • Curry leaves (kadipatta): 3-4 leaves
  • Peanuts: 2-3 tbsp
  • Turmeric Powder: ¾ tsp
  • Sugar: 1 tsp
  • Mustard Seeds: ½ tsp
  • Cumin Seeds: ½ tsp
  • Coriander: 2-3 tbsp finely chopped
  • Scraped Coconut: 3 tbsp
  • Asafoetida (Hing): A pinch
  • Potato: 1 small cut into very small pieces
  • Salt: As required
  • Oil: 2-3 tbsp
Instructions
  1. Wash the poha and drain all the water. Add sugar, salt, coriander, coconut and turmeric powder to the poha and mix gently with your hand.
  2. Dry roast the peanuts till they become brown. Take aside.
  3. Heat oil in a pan and add the potato pieces. Stir fry till the potato becomes brown and is cooked. Remove the potato and keep aside.
  4. In the same pan, add mustard seeds and let splutter. Add cumin seeds and hing and stir fry till cumin seeds become brown.
  5. Add kadipatta and green chilies. Stir fry, add peanuts and potato and mix well.
  6. Add poha and mix well. Sprinkle a few drops of water and let cook for 1-2 minutes.
  7. optional step (I like to squeeze a little lemon juice on the poha before serving as my family likes it that way)
Recipe by YourHungerStop at https://www.yourhungerstop.com/aloo-poha/