"Yerra Aalu Kura" (Red curry....my mother's best dish)

Ingredients:-

Potatoes----------2 big ones

Onions------------4 big ones

Dry red chillies----6 (or per taste)

Ginger --------------1 inch piec ...no garlic at all

Salt to taste

Oil------------------One full cup

For Tempering:-

A little oil

Mustard seeds-------1 tsp

Kadi patta------------1 sprig

Udad daal-------------2 tsp

Channa daal-----------2 tsp

red chilly--------------1

Method:-

Boil the Alu( Potatoes) and peel them

Grind the chpped onins and chopped ginger coarsely

Then in a little oil, add the mustard seeds and wait to splutter.

Add the channa and the udad daals to it along with the one red chilly broken into a few pieces and also add the kadipatta

Then pour all the remaining oil into the pan and fry the coarsely ground mixture of onion and ginger paste till the raw smell goes off and the paste turns a little brown

Crush the boiled and peeled potatoes (not cut into pieces) and add it to the pan of fried onion and garlic paste

Add salt to the whole lot

The curry will look reddish in color

Eat it with hot rice and enjoy

(Ofcourse weight conscious people maynot want to have this but once in a while one can splurge on it !!!!)