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Chilli potato is a Indo chinese starter made with fried potatoes tossed in spicy, slightly sweet & sour chilli sauce. This chilli potato recipe will give you restaurant style crispy potatoes in chilli sauce. Chilli potato is quite popular in the Indian restaurants & is mostly eaten as a appetizer. There are 2 versions – dry & gravy. Gravy dish is good to eat as a side with Fried rice or Veg noodles.

I sometimes make chilli potato if my kids’ ask for it or when I have guests home. We usually don’t prefer very saucy dishes so I make the dry version. But I have shared both the dry & gravy methods in this post.

To make this chilli potato recipe, potatoes need to be crisp fried and then tossed in sweet sour chilli sauce. Alternately for a better healthier option, they can also be grilled or pan roasted and added to the sauce.

Making chilli potato is similar to the way we make Chilli paneer and Chilli chicken

Preparation

1. Wash and peel potatoes. Cut each potato to half inch slices first. Then cut each of the slice to 2 to 3 sticks of half each thickness. Soak them in water for about 30 minutes.

Drain and boil them in fresh water for 3 to 4 mins. They should not be soft but should be firm and semi cooked. Skipping this step may not cook the potatoes well while frying. However I did not boil mine.

2. Drain them up completely in a colander.

3. Add them to a wide bowl. Sprinkle salt, chilli powder (or paprika) and flour. I have used organic unbleached plain flour. To make the restaurant style chilli potato you will have to use corn starch (white corn flour).

For health reasons if you want to avoid plain and corn flour as well, then skip using flour. It really doesn’t make much difference if making dry starter.

Frying potatoes

4. Heat oil and fry until golden on a medium heat. For a healthier option, you can also bake these in a oven even without using flour like i did for the potato wedges here.

5. When they are half done, the flame can be lowered a bit to make sure they are completely cooked inside without burning outside. When they are golden fried drain them on a kitchen tissue or on a colander. Do check if they are completely cooked.

How to make chilli potato

6. Heat 1 tbsp oil and fry slit chilli and garlic. You can also use fresh sesame or olive oil to enhance the flavors.

7. When the garlic begins to smell good, add tonions and white parts of spring onions. You can use any one kind of onions. Saute until the onions turn transparent.

8. Add bell peppers and saute for 1 to 2 mins. You may skip these as well but they add flavor and volume. So i suggest using.

9. While capsicum is getting sauteed, mix ½ to ¾ tsp of red chili powder with 1.5 to 2 tsp of red chilli sauce. Add few tsps of water and beat with a fork. Using red chili enhances the color of the dish without addition of too much sauce or food color.

Alternately you can also add only red chili sauce and skip using the powder. Saute capsicums for just 2 minutes. Then add sugar, ½ tbsp soya sauce salt and red chilli sauce.

10. Stir every thing well and fry just for a minute. Add half tsp vinegar.

11. Add few tbsps water to the pan and allow the sauce to thicken just for a minute or two. If you like to make a gravy dish, add ¾ tsp corn starch to half cup. Stir it well and pour it to the pan.

12. When the sauce thickens, taste it and add more sauces if needed. Turn off and add the fried or baked potatoes.

13. Toss well till the sauces coat the potatoes. Add spring onions.

Serve chilli potato hot while still crisp.

Tips to make best chilli potato

1. To make the best crisp fried potatoes for this recipe always soak the potatoes in water for at least 30 mins. Then boil then in fresh water for 3 to 4 mins until slightly tender but still hold shape.

This step makes the crispiest potatoes as the excess starch is removed.

2. Parboiling the potatoes before frying also helps to cook them completely from inside without browning too quickly.

3. I have made chilli potato for this post by deep frying but you can avoid that completely and grill them first. Then add to the prepared sauce.

4. Coating the potatoes in corn flour makes them crispy. However for health reasons you can also replace it with rice flour.

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