# Urulai Kilangu Peratal - Home-style Potato Masala

Urulai Kilangu Peratal is a home-style potato masala, often served as a side dish with light-colored curries like Sambar, Tannisar, or Sothi.

- Total time: 22 min
- Cuisine: Indian
- Category: Side
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- oil
- 2 tbsp mustard seeds
- 2 tbsp urad dal
- 1 tsp cumin
- 2 onions, sliced
- curry leaves
- dried chillies, slit
- 3 tbsp ginger
- 3 tbsp garlic
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp asafoetida (hing or perungayam)
- 2 kilos potatoes, cubed into bite-sized pieces
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 4 tbsp chili powder
- water

## Instructions

1. Heat oil in a pan.
2. Add 2 tablespoons of mustard seeds and let them pop.
3. As the mustard seeds are popping, add 2 tablespoons of urad dal, 1 teaspoon of cumin, 2 sliced onions, some curry leaves, and a few slit dried chillies.
4. After a couple of minutes, add 3 tablespoons of ginger and 3 tablespoons of garlic.
5. Once the raw aroma of the ginger garlic paste is gone, add 1 tablespoon of salt and 1 tablespoon of asafoetida (hing or perungayam).
6. After about a minute, add 2 kilos of cubed bite-sized potatoes.
7. Stir the potatoes until they are nicely coated.
8. Add 1 teaspoon of turmeric and 4 tablespoons of chili powder.
9. Stir everything nicely.
10. Add enough water to just cover the top of the potatoes.
11. Bring to a rolling boil and keep testing to see if the potato is cooked to your desired doneness.
12. After about 15 minutes, when all the water has dried out, add a bit more curry leaf and a little more salt.
13. Continue cooking for another five minutes until the starch released from the potato makes it a bit clumpy.
14. Increase the heat further and keep stirring until it becomes nice and tight.

## Tips

- You can adjust the chili powder content based on your spice preference.
- Keep stirring the potatoes until they reach a clumpy and tight consistency.

## Source

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- Extracted: 2026-03-13

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