Potato Stew Recipe – Kerala Style | Potato with Coconut Milk

Potato stew is a very simple medium spiced dish. In my grandma’s house this recipe was a star during birthdays or festive season during when feast was cooked which had many variety of curries. As kids we used to love stew as potato used to be our favorite vegetable of all.

This was my grandmas recipe who used to cook all the ingredients in a pot and on fire she used to cook potato in coconut milk .But now a days many started using pressure cooker for fast cooking . But the aroma of potato boiling in coconut milk from  grandmas kitchen was marvelous 

Ingredients: 

• Potatoes: 3 medium, ( cubed)
• Ginger: finely chopped Green chillies: 4-5 (slit Open)
• Thinest Coconut milk –  3^rd extract /Moonampaal: 11//2 cup
• Thin Coconut milk – 2nd extract /Randampaal: 11//2 cup
• Thick Coconut milk -1st extract /Onnampaal: 1/2 cup
• Coconut oil: 2 tsp.
• Curry leaves – 2string

Method:

 In a pot add the cubed potatoes, slit green chillies and chopped ginger. Now with 1 1/2 cup of thinnest coconut milk and salt once the potatoes are cooked, mash some of the potatoes to get a thick gravy.  Add thin coconut milk and let it cook on low heat for 10 minutes.  Reduce the heat to low and cook uncovered till it reaches thick and creamy.  Now remove from the fire add the thick coconut milk ,add the curry leaves, drizzle coconut oil and Cover and let it rest for 5 minutes, this allows the aroma and the flavour to seep in.


Note : You can make stew using a combination of veggies like potatoes, carrot, green peas and so on. This is current trend to add veggies… But authentically it was only potato