Potato sambal (salad)
Cooking time: 15 min. / 15 min.Difficulty: easy
Would you like to refresh your traditional portfolio of potato salads and you do not mind spicy food? Try Sri Lankan style potato salad. You can serve it warm, cold, as a side dish or main vegetarian dish too.
Process
Peel boiled potatoes and dice. Mix with red onions, curry leaves, pandan leaves, salt, sugar, chili flakes and glutamate.
Heat 1 tbs of a vegetable oil on a high flame, add garlic, ginger and cardamon pods and fry 1 minute. Then add the potato mix, reduce the heat, stir well and cook 15 minutes covered.
Just before the end of cooking stir in turmeric.
Sri Lankan style serving is as a part of various kinds of curries and rice and it is served warm. But it is possible to serve it as a main dish, warm or cold. But it is not Sri Lankan style any more ;).
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Video recipe
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Ingredients
For 4 portions:
- 4 potatoes boiled in skin
- 2 medium sized red onions chopped
- 8-10 curry leaves
- 1-2 pandan leaves (optional)
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/3 tsp glutamate (optional)
- 1 heaped tbs dry chilli flakes
- 3 cloves garlic crushed
- 3 green cardamon pods crushed
- 1-2 cm long piece of fresh ginger
- 2 tsp turmeric
- 1 tbs coconut or other vegetable oil
Authentic tools needed:
- clay pot
- mortar