Potato curry with lime & cucumber raita

Potato curry with lime & cucumber raita

This colourful Indian dish with a refreshing yoghurt sauce is great for vegetarians, or try serving to meat eaters with lightly spiced lamb

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 5

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 30 mins

Cook time

Cook 40 mins

Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian

FREEZE curry only

Method

  1. Heat the oil in a large pan and fry the mustard seeds, chillies and curry leaves until the seeds start to pop. Add the onions and fry until softened and starting to brown. stir in the spices, add the tomatoes and fry for 5 mins. Add the potatoes and stir to coat. Pour in the coconut milk with 200ml water. Bring to the boil and simmer for 20-25 mins, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes are just tender.
  2. To make the raita, mix all the ingredients together with some seasoning.
  3. If the curry looks a little too saucy, scoop out the potatoes with a slotted spoon into another dish, then boil the sauce until reduced a little. stir the potatoes back in to heat through, and season well (this curry needs a good sprinkling of salt). serve with warmed Indian bread and a dollop of raita.
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If you're missing the meat, this curry is also delicious served with some spiced lamb chops or slow-roasted spiced lamb leg.

PER SERVING

383 kcalories, protein 9g, carbohydrate 43g, fat 21 g, saturated fat 13g, fibre 4g, sugar 12g, salt 0.35 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2011.

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  • 03 November 2011

    sw77 commented on this recipe

    Like the look of this! However if I don't have curry leaves what can i use to replace them?

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  • 21 November 2011

    Frantic Flapjack rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    Although there were lots of lovely ingredients in this recipe, the finished result seemed to lack taste. I did put salt in which the recipe suggests but felt it still needed something more.

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  • 24 November 2011

    Cheryl rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    I agree with Frantic Flapjack in that this was a bit bland. If I make this again I will miss out the 200ml water and put more chillis in.

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  • 07 December 2011

    drumbjo rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    This is nice, and goes well with the raita. A couple of tips - squeeze some of the moisture out of the cucumber as it makes the raita too runny otherwise. And also, the first time I did this it took forever for the potatoes to cook, especially if you do cut them into large chunks. The second time I made this I part-cooked the potatoes for around 12-15 minutes and then added them to the curry to cook for a further 20 mins. Also used a sachet of cream coconut and 400ml extra boiling water rather than a tin of coconut milk which can be quite sweet.

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  • 19 February 2012

    susannahgrammar rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Nice, although the mustard seeds added a bit of a strange, caviaresque texture. Did I not prepare them properly? I used a teaspoon of curry powder (I reduced all ingredients by half) instead of curry leaves, incidentally.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 5

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 30 mins

Cook time

Cook 40 mins

Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian

FREEZE curry only

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp vegetable or sunflower oil
  • 1 tbsp brown or black mustard seeds
  • 3 long dried red Indian chillies
  • 12-15 curry leaves
  • 2 onions , sliced
  • 2 tsp ground coriander
  • 2 tsp garam masala
  • 2 tsp turmeric
  • 500g tomatoes , quartered
  • 800g potatoes , peeled and cut into very large chunks
  • 400g can coconut milk
  • chapatis, rotis or naan bread , to serve

FOR THE RAITA

  • 150g pot natural yogurt
  • zest and juice 1 lime
  • ½ cucumber , deseeded and coarsely grated
  • small handful coriander leaves, roughly chopped
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PER SERVING

383 kcalories, protein 9g, carbohydrate 43g, fat 21 g, saturated fat 13g, fibre 4g, sugar 12g, salt 0.35 g

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