Potatoes With Cumin and Asafetida

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This elemental crockery was Indian-born histrion Madhur Jaffrey’s fiercest combatant against homesickness erstwhile she was a starving acting pupil successful 1950s London. Jaffrey simmers potatoes successful a lagoon of herb condiment perfumed with gloriously funky asafetida, besides called hing, cumin seeds, turmeric and dried reddish chiles. (Don’t skimp connected the chiles; they’ll tickle your pharynx each truthful often and springiness the condiment a invited depth.) After much than an hr connected the stove, the spuds volition beryllium brushed capable to interruption with a spoon. Because the potatoes, which are quartered, navigator for a agelong time, they should beryllium akin successful size, astatine slightest 5 oregon 6 ounces each, truthful the pieces volition support their shape. The crockery is champion served successful a vessel and sopped up with breads similar chapati, paratha oregon puri, though it works conscionable arsenic good connected a cot of rice.

Adapted from “An Invitation to Indian Cooking: 50th Anniversary Edition” by Madhur Jaffrey (Knopf, 2023).

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

• Calories

  234

• Fat

  8 g

• Saturated Fat

  1 g

• Carbohydrates

  38 g

• Sodium

  634 mg

• Cholesterol

  0 mg

• Protein

  5 g

• Fiber

  5 g

• Sugar

  8 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “An Invitation to Indian Cooking: 50th Anniversary Edition” by Madhur Jaffrey (Knopf, 2023).

Tested by Mayukh Sen and Ann Maloney.

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