Topic: Pre Cooked Potatoes

[haldi]

I wasn't totally sure where to post this, so please move if appropriate
A lot a people have said that potatoes are precooked by simply boiling them with turmeric and salt
Well maybe some places do that, but at all the recent places I have seen, they pull out a lidded plastic tub of them, and they are swimming in a red oil.
When I was out the other night, I saw them being prepared
The reason they are cooked separate to the veg is because they are used in other recipes such as vindaloo & bombay potato
Anyhow here it is:-

Pre Cooked Potatoes

A chefs spoon is about four dessertspoons

Heat about an inch of veg oil in a large pot (about 9 inch wide)
Add half a chef spoon of garlic ginger puree and cook for about five minutes on fairly low gas
Add 1 chef spoon of tomato puree, 1 chef spoon spice mix, 1 desertspoon salt, ten green cardamons and stir into the oil
Let it all sizzle for another five minutes
Add about ten medium sized ?chopped into four pieces? potatoes
Stir and coat with the oil
No water is added
Now put the lid on the pot and check every ten minutes or so and stir
In about forty minutes they will be done
Remember they need to be a little undercooked