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Potato fry recipe or aloo fry recipe. Learn to make easy potato fry in 25 minutes with a quick video and step by step photos. Potato is a versatile vegetable and can be used to prepare many dishes. I also make other potato recipes like aloo curry, South Indian aloo kurma, quick potato sagu, simple aloo rice, biryani and potato sandwich.
potato fry recipe
A simple potato fry is very easy to prepare and makes a Indian meal special. Lightly spiced with red chili powder and light garam masala, this aloo fry has great taste and flavor. Accompany this with tomato rasam and plain rice, you will love it.

For more potato recipes, you may like to check
Aloo gobi masala
Aloo matar
Tandoori aloo tikka

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Potato fry recipe or aloo fry recipe below

Potato fry recipe | Aloo fry recipe | how to make potato fry recipe

Indian potato fry recipe - A simple stir fry recipe of potatoes, spiced with Indian spice powder and chili powder. This is a kids' friendly potato fry recipe. It can be eaten with rice- sambar or rice-rasam or as a side in a Indian meal.

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Course Main
Cuisine Indian
Keyword easy Potato fry
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 2
Calories 165 kcal
Author Swasthi

Ingredients (240 ml cup used)

  • 1 cup potatoes (cubed) (about 2 large)
  • 1 ½ tbsp oil or as needed
  • ¼ tsp. mustard
  • ½ tsp cumin or jeera
  • 1 to 2 garlic cloves chopped or crushed
  • ½ tsp urad dal (optional)
  • 1 sprig curry leaves
  • 1 red chili dried broken (optional)
  • pinch asafoetida or hing
  • 1/8 tsp turmeric or haldi
  • ¼ tsp red chili powder
  • ¼ to ½ tsp garam masala or sambar powder
  • salt as needed

How to make the recipe

Preparation for potato fry

  1. Wash potatoes and peel. Cube to small bite sizes about half inch cubes. 

  2. Keep them in a bowl of water until used. This helps to remove the excess starch and prevents them from sticking to each other.

  3. Crush or chop garlic. Rinse curry leaves and set aside.

Making potato fry

  1. Pour oil to a heavy bottom non stick or cast iron pan.  

  2. When the oil turns hot, add cumin, mustard, red chili and dals. Fry dal till golden.

  3. Add curry leaves and garlic.

  4. When the garlic is lightly fried, add hing. 

  5. Drain the water from potatoes and then add them to the pan. Sprinkle turmeric.

  6. Mix and fry for about 3 to 4 minutes on a medium heat stirring often. 

  7. Lower the flame, Cover and cook till the potatoes are done. 

  8. Stir in between to prevent burning. If needed sprinkle some water in between. You can also add more oil for better roasting.

  9. When the potatoes are roasted and cooked well. Check if they are cooked completely. You shouldn't feel hard from inside. Otherwise sprinkle some more water and fry.

  10. Then sprinkle chili powder, salt and garam masala.

  11. Toss everything well and fry for a minute or two to blend well. 

  12. Serve potato fry or aloo fry with rice and rasam.

Nutrition Facts
Potato fry recipe | Aloo fry recipe | how to make potato fry recipe
Amount Per Serving
Calories 165 Calories from Fat 90
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 10g 15%
Sodium 23mg 1%
Potassium 433mg 12%
Total Carbohydrates 14g 5%
Dietary Fiber 3g 12%
Protein 3g 6%
Vitamin A 2%
Vitamin C 26.6%
Calcium 3.1%
Iron 21.3%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

potato fry recipe

Preparation for potato fry recipe

1. Wash potatoes well. Peel them and cube to bite sizes or about half inch cubes.
2. Immerse them in a bowl of water until used further.
3. Crush or chop garlic and rinse the curry leaves.

How to make potato fry recipe

4. Heat a pan with oil, add mustard, cumin and urad dal, when the dal gets lightly roasted add red chili, garlic and curry leaves. If you don’t have curry leaves you can use pudina.
seasoning in oil with curry leaves for potato fry recipe
5. Add potatoes and turmeric.
addition of cubed potato to pan for aloo fry recipe
6. Fry for about 3 to 4 minutes.
frying aloo on a low flame in potato fry recipe
7. Simmer or lower the flame. Cook covered till the potatoes are soft cooked. If needed you can sprinkle little water and cook.
simmering aloo fry until the cubes are cooked
8. Add red chili powder and garam masala.
addition of spice powders chili powder for potato fry recipe
9. Mix and fry for few more minutes, till the chili powder blends well with potatoes.
tossing potato fry until done
Serve aloo fry with rice and rasam.
serving aloo fry with rice rasam for a south indian meal

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  2. Hello SWASTHI JI

    just tried this recipe . very easy to make & very tasty as well . tastes good for rice as well as roti . good part is this is not a very spicy dish. love this dish .

    one quick suggestion .
    please launch a MOBILE APP so that it would be more convenient for us.

    thank you . .

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  4. I really luv ur recipe collections & i tried many recipes frm ur site it came well and my hubby luvs it. Thank u so much.

    One more tip in the above recipe Potato Fry: after adding spices jst add a half a spoon of besan flour it wud help to bind the spices with potato.

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    • Welcome Geevino
      So glad to know you both like the food.
      Loved your tip of adding besan to the potato fry. I guess it adds aroma too to the dish. I had never thought of it but tried with rice flour earlier. Thanks for sharing this and the comment too
      :smile:.

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  5. Thank you so much for your recipes! I just got married in Dec 2016 and have been cooking for my husband his fav Andhra dishes (I’m not from Andhra). Your recipes have helped a great deal! My husband is very happy with my cooking thanks to you! ?

    P.S I added onions (cause we love onions) to this recipe and it tasted super yummy. Thanks again!

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    • Welcome Crystal
      Glad to know you. Wish you both a very happy married life and tons of happiness & prosperity.
      Happy to know the recipes are useful.
      Yes onions add a lovely flavor.
      Thanks for the comment.
      🙂

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    • Hi Neetha
      Some potatoes have too much of starch in them. Though not all. You can soak the chopped cubes in water for 15 to 20 mins and drain it and wash well before using. That will fix the problem.
      Now you can fix it by adding half to 3/4 tsp of coriander powder. and fry for another 2 mins. It should work

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  8. I always search for your recipes .I loved it .Thank u , not only this recipe I have tried so many recipes from your list

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    • Welcome Rakshitha
      So glad to know you have tried many recipes from the blog. Thanks a lot for the comment and for trying too.

      Reply

  12. Wanted to try a quick potato snack with chapatis and tried this…Came out great..didnt use urad dal and by mistake added lilttle more mustard seeds and oil..will do perfectly next time but this time too it was super delicious..thanks for this great yet simple recipe!

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  15. Hi swasthi! Tried potato fry this way and it tasted really good. Garlic flavour was very nice. Only variation was i had some left over boiled potatoes so tried it with them. The texture was little different but taste was good. Next time will try out with raw ones. Thanks again for a nice recipe.

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    • Hi Madhavi,
      Try with raw potato next time, it is so easy and tastes really good. Welcome and Thanks for the feedback.

      Reply