Potato Pickle

You must be aware of the fact that there are about 3000 variety of potatoes that is available on earth. Well I am not sure we can get that many varieties of potatoes as many is listed by World Food. But, if there are as many as  30 varieties of potatoes that is available in the market then we can make 40 varieties of pickles out of it. People consume it depending on the community they belong or the country they live in.  Being a Nepali I would like to say that Nepal is that place where people love to make pickle of almost everything that is available in the market. One such highly used vegetable to make a yummy pickle is Potatoes. 
  

Ingredients : 

Potatoes                         :     800 grams

salt                                :     as per taste

Chili powder                   :     half teaspoon

Hot green chili                :     8 nos  

dry red chili                    :     3 nos

Sesame                           :     three table spoon

Chuk or lemon Juice        :     two table spoon

Turmeric powder             :     half teaspoon

Fenugreek seeds              :     half teaspoon

Mustard oil                      :     two table spoon

Ways to convert all these ingredients into a pickle.

• potatoes should be cleaned before we boil it.
• lets keep it aside to cool down.
• Once potatoes cools down then peel it and then chop one potatoes into four or six piece.
• Keep about five boiled potatoes and instead of cutting it smash it using your hand on the bowl where you keep all chopped potatoes.
• Roast sesame seeds and grind it so that you can get its powder. Put this also in the bowl of pickle.
• clean green chili and slice it into two. 
• Put salt, sesame seeds and half spoon of chili powder a and then mix everything in a clean bowl.
• Heat oil on a pan and put fenugreek seeds on it.
• When fenugreek seeds turns black, put the sliced green chili on it.
• Now pour it over the mixture on the bowl.
• if you like you can sprinkle green coriander on top of it and then serve.

Now your Potatoes pickle is ready !

This recipe is provided by Mrs Ganga DC. Originally, this mother and grand mother belongs to Surkhet, but have been living in Kathmandu for more than ten years. She loves to cook and then take pride in it when others enjoy her cooking skill. Her passion for cooking  comes very handy to run her hostel business which she has been runing for almost ten years by now. I have heard that she has been running her hostel with the talk going round in a circle that food available in her hostel is best in the industry. She is Managing Director at Queen's Hostel Pvt. Ltd.  Studied at Tribhuvan University.