Here’s how I make Vrat Wale aloo at home.
Boiling Potatoes: I pressure cook whole potatoes. For this In a pressure cooker or instant pot place potatoes and cover them till the surface with water.
Now pressure cook them for 4 whistles if you are cooking in the regular pressure cooker.
If boiling potatoes in the Instant pot close the lid and bring the pressure valve to sealing mode. Set the pressure to low and set the timer to 10 minutes.
Force release the pressure and peel the potatoes once these are cool to handle.
I batch cook potatoes and keep them in the fridge to use in various potato recipes throughout the week.
Making Vrat Wale aloo
The next step is cooking these peeled, crumbled boiled potatoes with a tomatoes-spice mixture to make a lightly spiced potato curry.
Grind 2 large tomatoes to make fresh tomato puree.
Heat ghee in a pan and add cumin seeds.
In few seconds cumin starts to crackle add in slit green chillies and sauté for a few seconds.
Add fresh pureed tomatoes and cook these tomatoes on slow to medium heat till ghee starts to surface.
Now add rock salt(send namak) red chilli powder, cumin powder, coriander powder.
Cook these spices with tomatoes for 1-2 minutes to release the flavour from the spices.
Now add chopped and mashed potatoes and mix.
Add 2.5 cups of water and cover.
Once it starts to boil reduce the heat.
Simmer the curry on slow heat for 10 minutes.