Honey Chilli Potato

Ingredients:

For Potato fries:

3 Medium Potato, sliced length wise

1 teaspoon chilli flakes

Pinch of salt

1 ½ table spoon tomato ketchup

2 ½ table spoon corn flour

Oil to deep fry.

For Sauce:

2-3 slices of garlic finely chopped

½ inch ginger finely chopped

1 teaspoon chilli flakes

Chilli powder to taste

Salt to taste

½ tablespoon soya sauce

2 tablespoon ketchup

2 tablespoon chilli sauce

1 ½ - 2 tablespoon honey

5 tablespoon water

1/2 tea spoon corn flour

Recipe:

For Fries:

Add sliced potato in a bowl, sprinkle salt and chilli flakes, add ketchup and give everything a nice mix so that every potato is covered in ketchup and flakes. Now add corn flour and toss the potato. This corn flour is what will help the ketchup and flakes stick to the potatoes.

Deep fry them on low heat till nicely brown and potatoes cooked. Take them out and spread them on a kitchen towel to cool down remove excess oil.

Note:

At this stage what you have are potato wedges and you can eat them as it is with some chutney. To make them taste better you can add seasoning or herb of your liking during the preparation stage. Like add oregano or dried mint or black pepper powder or roasted cumin seeds powder etc. Try different flavours every time you make them.

For sauce:

In a pan add ½ tablespoon oil used for frying the potatoes, add ginger garlic and sauté till they lose their raw smell. Dont let them turn crispy and brown. Low flame would help here.

Add chilli flakes, chilli sauce, ketchup, soy sauce, chilli powder, salt and 3 tablespoon water let the sauce simmer for a couple of minutes.

Add honey and mix gently.

Mix corn flour in remaining water and add to the sauce this will thicken it.

Add potato fries and toss everything together. Sprinkle with fresh coriander or chopped green onion. Honey chilli potato are ready.

Note:

In this recipe I fried potatoes the way my family likes them. However, very crispy fried potatoes are used in making this recipe normally, which is a lengthy procedure. To make your potato fries crispier, first step is to wash them nicely after slicing them. Then leave them on lowest flame in water for atleast 10 – 15 minutes. Then drain the water and soak the fries into chilled water for 2-3 minutes. Then fry them on high flame for 2 minutes and take them out to cool down. Then again fry them on lowest flame till they are cooked and crispy. This should take 7-9 minutes. Resulting fries are very crispy. Reason behind washing and leaving potatoes in water is to help them release all the excess starch.