Schezwan Chilli Baby Potatoes

It was a lazy weekend and I wanted to finish off my cooking work really soon to spend time with my hubby. So, I prepared vegetable fried rice. My hubby told he would like to have something very spicy to accompany the rice, hence this amazing dish came to my mind.
This has got a lovely colour and texture and goes well with fried rice, noodles, etc. The actual recipe calls for deep frying the baby potatoes. But, I just shallow fried it in less oil. It is up to you to deep fry or shallow fry them.

 

Ingredients

• Baby Potatoes10 - 12 nos
• Oil - 2 tsp , for shallow frying
• Corn flour - 1 tblspn
• Oil - 2 tsp, for tempering
• Red chillies -
• Onion - 1 cup , roughly chopped
• Spring onions - 1 tblspn, chopped
• Tomato - 1 no, chopped
• Ginger - 1 inch, minced
• Garlic - 6 cloves, Roughly chopped
• Capsicum - 1, diced (Green)
• Corn flour - 1 tblspn
• Pepper powder - 2 tsp
• Water - 1 tblspn
• Red Chilli sauce - 1 tblspn
• Soya Sauce - 1 tblspn
• Tomato Sauce - 1 tblspn
• Salt - to taste
• Sugar - 2 tsp
• Coriander leaves - to garnish

Method

• Soak red chillies in hot water for 15 minutes and grind them to a smooth paste.
• Pressure cook the baby potatoes for 3 - 4 whistles. It should be over cooked. Peel off the skin. Add the corn flour and mix well until everything is combined.

 

• Heat oil in a pan and shallow fry the potatoes until its crisp from all the sides. Keep it aside.

 

• In the same pan, heat some more oil and add the broken red chillies, ginger and garlic and fry for few seconds.

  

• Add onion, salt, sugar and fry till it becomes translucent.

 

• Now add the capsicum and fry for a minute.

 

• Pour the red chilli paste, mix well and let it cook for 2 minutes.

 

• Now add the tomatoes and spring onion

 

• Add soya sauce, chilli sauce and tomato sauce and pepper powder, and give it a good mix.

 

• Combine corn flour and 1 tblspn of water in a bowl and add it to the gravy. Add enough water and bring this to boil

 

• The mixture will start thickening. Add the fried potatoes. Cover and cook for a minute. Turn off the heat.

  

• Transfer to a serving dish garnished with spring onion greens and coriander leaves.