Potato Podimas | Urulaikizhangu Podimas

Urulaikizhangu / potato podimas is a South Indian dish made with simple ingredients like potatoes, green chillies, ginger and tempered with spices. It’s a quick, healthy and mildly spiced dish, and we mostly serve it with plain rice and sambar, rasam or vatha kuzmabu. This brahmin style podimas does not contain onion or garlic, making it apt to make on vrat / fasting or festival days. 

This potato podimas can be prepared in a very short time. And if you have boiled potatoes in hand, then you can make this in 10 minutes. I recommend using coconut oil for this dish as it lends a beautiful flavor. You can also serve this as a side dish to chapathi, poori, dal-chawal or variety rice. Let’s see how to make to this easy yet delicious podimas.

Urulaikizhangu (Potato) Podimas

TamBrahm style mildly spiced crumbled potatoes with ginger, green chillies and lemon
Servings 4
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

  • 3 medium potato
  • 2 tsp coconut oil
  • 1 tsp mustard seeds
  • ¾ tsp split urad dal
  • ¼ tsp asafoetida / hing
  • ¼ tsp turmeric powder
  • 1 sprig curry leaves
  • 1 inch ginger piece grated
  • 3-4 green chillies finely chopped
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tsp lemon juice

Instructions

  • Pressure cook the potatoes for 3 whistles. Peel the skin and lightly crumble them with hands.
  • Heat a pan with oil and add mustard seeds. When it splutters, add urad dal, asafoetida, curry leaves, turmeric powder, ginger and green chillies.
  • Fry for a minute and add the crumbled potatoes, salt and gently combine everything. Cook for 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat and add the lemon juice.

Notes

  • Do not mash the potatoes completely. Crumble them roughly with hands while its warm to handle.
  • Adjust the amount of green chillies according to your spice preference.
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: Indian

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  1. I usually do this for my favorite vathal kulambu…yummy yummy.

  2. yummy podimas!! all time comforting meal!!

  3. Perfect combination with hot steaming and sambar. Nice pics Sona..

  4. Yummy recipe with perfect pictures.. Love it..

  5. Potato podimas looks delicious.

  6. Potato podimas looks perfect.

  7. Comfort dish,looks so yummy

  8. an all time yummy recipe..

  9. Simple and healthy dish.. Will make a nice dish to hot piping rasam.

  10. Podimas with rasam is my favorite combo. We usually add coconut to podimas..

  11. Perfectly made super yummy podimas.

  12. love this podimas. My MIL makes it very often. Looks tooo good..

  13. I have never heard of this.. love the way it looks… must try!

  14. Thats a perfect combo sona!! So yummy potato's!

  15. Love it a lot. Perfect with dosas

  16. one of very versatile dish.. you can use this in many ways.. simple and perfect for lazy days

  17. lovely click,Sona…looks delicious 🙂

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