Koorka (chinese potato) stir fry/Giveaway win

Today thought of sharing with you koorka mezhukkupiratti/stir fry. The translation I got for koorka in google was chinese potato, so I believe I can call it that way too. Actually it is big work when you've to peel koorka. I was lucky enough to find peeled frozen chinese potatoes in a supermarket freezer. This is again one of our favourite, so grabbed the packet at the first sight. Once you've the peeled ones, it is quite easy to make this tasty stir fry.

Ingredients

• Koorka (chinese potato) - 250 gm
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Chilli powder - 2 tsp
• Ginger - 1 inch piece
• Garlic - 4 cloves (I used the big ones, called chinese garlic)
• Oil for stir frying
• Dry red chilli - 4 broken
• Mustard seeds
• Salt to taste
• Water - 3/4 cup

Method

• Clean and dice the koorkas.
• Make a paste of ginger and garlic
• In a thick bottomed add the above ginger-garlic paste, chilli, turmeric powders, salt, water and koorka. Mix well. Cover and cook until it is well cooked. If required add more water.
• Heat oil in a pan
• When oil is hot, add mustard seeds and let it splutter.
• Now add broken dry red chillies and saute for a few seconds
•  Add the cooked koorka into the oil and stir fry well for 10-15 minutes on slow flame. Let it get a dark brown colour. (Don't burn)

Sending this to Serve it Stir fried by keerthi and denny

Yay I got a giveaway prize!!


A big thanks to Teena of teenzyummydelight for including me in the list of 3 winners. She has passed on Hilary Geenleaf's ebook on smoothies. It has a variety of fibre filled smoothie recipes. Hope to try some of them and post it sometime. Quite a healthy lot!