Re: vegetable dishes
Jalpari..........spiced potatoes is fairly easy to make.
You can adjust the quanity of the ingredients according to your needs. But basically my mom and I peel some potatoes and chop them up into small pieces.......more like small thin slices (not too thin though). Also chop up one medium sized onion.
Start shallow frying the potatoes and the onions until transluscent. Don't brown the onions. And then in a container.......mix some yogurt (1 cup) with 1 tsp garam masala, 1 tsp chilli power, 1/4 tsp turmeric, ground corriander to taste. And then add the yogurt with the spices to the potatoes.......and stir. Add cumin seeds and chopped green chillies according to taste. After a few minutes the yogurt and spices will form a gravy. And as with most dishes, when the oil rises to the surface, you're done.
Taste the potatoes to make sure they're tender and cooked all the way through. If they're a still a bit hard.......you can a little water and cook until they soften. You can add cream to thicken the gravy if you wish.
We don't add garlic and ginger or tomatoes to this dish, but some people do. People vary in how they make it. It's basically potatoes with curry.