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Monday 17 December 2018

Potato Spring Onion fry, Aloo hare pyaz ki sabzi, Aloo vulli kaada fry, How to prepare Aloo Spring Onion fry

Spring onion is also known as Scallion and vulli kaadalu in telugu.Spring onions are low in calories, fat-free and provides fibre. Potato and spring onion fry is very good combination. Aloo spring onion fry is very tasty and kids friendly fry recipe prepared using potatoes and spring onion whites and greens. It is very easy to prepare in jiffy with less ingredients. As this is dry fry it goes well as sides dish with dal, sambar, rasam and curd rice. It also goes well with Roti's and pulkas too. Today we had this aloo spring onion fry with tomato rasam. My dad use to bring this spring onions regularly 😊. While buying spring onions for cabbage manchurian recipes, I bought 1 extra bunch and thought to prepare this fry. Spring onion green gives crunchy taste to the fry. Point to remember is use tender spring onion(greens)

I confused with scallions and spring onions so digged to know the difference between scallions and spring onions.

Scallions - are long, with a white stem end that does not buldge out.

Spring onion - look smillar to scallion, but they have samll onion bulb at the base.

I gathered this information and pics from google. Thought that it will useful...

Aloo Spring Onion fry

Preparation Time : 10 minutes

Cook Time : 15 minutes

Serves : 3-4 people

Category : Fry

Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Main ingredients : Potato, Spring

Onion

Author : ArunaSarasChandra

Ingredients

Potato - 3

Spring onion- 1 bunch(greens)

Spring onion whites - 1 cup(shallots)

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Green chilli - 1

Red chilli powder - 1 tsp

Coriander powder - 1tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Hing - 1 tsp

Salt as needed

Oil - 2 tsp
Chopped garlic - 1 tsp ( I did not added)

Instructions

1) Clean spring onions, Cut whites and greens. Later wash potatoes, peel the skin and cut it and soak into water.

2) Take a pan add oil, let it heat for a second add cumin sedds, once cumin seeds turns brown add chopped green chillies hing and saute it for a second.

3) Add chopped onions saute till it becomes translucent.

4) Now add chopped potatoes and salt mix well and let it fry for a second.

5) Then add red chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder to the above.

6) Mix the spices and potatoes well so that potatoes coat well with spices. Close the lid and cook it on medium - low flames.

7) Stir potato occasionally while cooking as there is chance of sticking aloo to the pan so check it in middle of frying. Chop green part of onion.

8) Once aloo almost cooked, add green part of spring onions. (scallion)

9) Mix the above well, so that the spices coat spring onion greens.

10) Fry the above on high flames for 2 minutes and cook it 3 to 5 minutes by closing the lid for cruchy greens. Tasty aloo spring onion fry is ready, take it into serving plate.

We had this aloo spring onion fry with tomato rasam 😋😋.

Note

◆ You can add chopped garlic after adding cumin seeds.

◆ You can also add spices after cooking potatoes. But adding spices early will coat potatoes well and gives good taste but it stick to pan, so fry potatoes occassionally.

Tips

. Soak potatoes in water after cutting so that potatoes d't change color.

● If you want spring onion greens crunchy do not cook it long time after adding green parts of spring onion.

● Use only tender part of spring onions greens(Scallion).

Also check few fries/ curries from my blog by clicking the link below the pic