Recipe: Delicious Jeera Aloo

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Jeera Aloo. Jeera aloo recipe - Quick, simple, delicious potatoes sauteed in mild spices. Jeera refers to cumin & aloo to potatoes. So Jeera aloo translate to potatoes sauteed with cumin.

I often make Jeera aloo for the lunch box as there is no.

Jeera aloo is one of those dishes you prepare when you don't want to spend hours in the kitchen and still want to eat something delicious.

The coarsely crushed cumin seeds add plenty of texture and flavour and coat the boiled potato pieces perfectly.

You can have Jeera Aloo using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Jeera Aloo

  1. You need 4-5 of potatoes.

  2. It’s 2 tsp of refined Oil.

  3. You need 2 spoon of Jeera/cumin seeds.

  4. You need To taste of Salt.

  5. You need as needed of red chilli powder.

  6. You need 1/2 tsp of black pepper powder.

  7. It’s 1 pinch of turmeric powder.

Serve jeera aloo with pooris, parathas or phulkas.

You can also serve this jeera aloo as a side dish with dal-rice or roti sabzi combo.

Boil or steam potatoes along with ½ teaspoon salt, till they are cooked well.

Jeera Aloo or Zeera Aloo, is an extremely popular or I can say Quintessential Indian potato recipe that is a favorite in every Indian home.

Jeera Aloo step by step

  1. Take 4-5 potatoes chopped them in equal pieces..

  2. Then take a fry pan add 2 tsp refined oil in it.When oil heats properly add 2 tsp jeera, salt, turmeric and red chilli powder as needed..

  3. After 2 minutes add chopped potatoes in the fry pan. Mix well..

  4. Now cover the pan for 5 minutes.After 5 minutes sprinkle black pepper on Potatoes..

  5. Mix it for 2 minutes and serve with chapatis..

Because of its simple flavors, it's especially loved by kids and makes for a great lunchbox addition with Indian roti/paratha or even bread.

Making it in Instant pot is cooking the potatoes before making Jeera aloo.

You can cook the potatoes whole and then cube it or you can cube the potatoes and the cook ( I prefer this).

Pour a cup of water in the inner pot of the Instant Pot.

Place the steamer rack and add the cubed or whole potatoes.