Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Potato Stew / Ishtu / Eshtu

Aappam is one of my favorite morning breakfast, obviously on weekends. (In weekdays, never find time to eat). Mostly, I like coconut milk for Aappam, but for a change I prepared this Potato stew (called as Ishtu/Eshtu). To my surprise, all my family members loved this. (Think they got bored of coconut milk always... he he he...). I took the recipe here.


Ingredients

  • Potato - 3 (boiled and peeled) (cut 2 potatos into small cubes and smash 1 potato)
  • Carrot - 1 (cut into small pieces)
  • Coconut Oil - 2 tsp
  • Cinnamon stick - 1/2 inch
  • Fennel seeds - a pinch
  • Cloves - 3
  • Star anise - 1
  • Bay-leaf - 1
  • Ginger paste - 1 tsp
  • Garlic paste - 1 tsp
  • Onion - 1 (big - cut lengthwise)
  • Green chillie - 2
  • Thick coconut milk - 1 cup
  • Thin coconut milk - 2 cup
  • Salt - as needed
  • Curry leaves - few


Method

  • In a Kadai/Wok, add fennel seeds, crushed bay leaf, star anise, cinnamon stick and cloves. Fry for a min. 

 

  •  To this add onion and fry.


  •  Add Ginger-garlic paste and green chillies.


  •  When the Onion are translucent, add the potato cubes and 1 cup of the thin coconut milk. 


  • To this add the smashed potato.



  •  Add the carrot and remaining 1 cup of coconut milk

 
  • Cover and allow the veggies to cook.


  •  Add the thick coconut milk, and curry leaves and switch off the stove after 5 min.


  • Serve hot with Aappam.

Notes:
  • Adding carrot is optional.
  • Actually I used, store bought coconut milk and with half of that added water and mixed. So I felt little oily. Hoping to try with fresh coconut milk next time.

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45 lovely comments:

Unknown

appam and potato stew makes an awesome combo :)

divyagcp

Delicious flavorful stew..

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Sahasra Recipes

Interesting & Lovely potato stew.

radha

Nice. I too use store bought coconut milk these days. It makes life easier!

Hema

My favorite side dish for appams..

Unknown

what a lovely stew recipe, would love to try this

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Yum stew

Namitha

I love stew especially with appam :) Your stew and appam look wonderful together !

FewMinute Wonders

Looks delicious and mouth watering. I love the appam stew combo.

divya

Wow...love it....simply delectable....

Indian Khana

you got it so perfect ....with that aapam it looks yum

Julie

yummy stew,nice combo with appams!
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Kannada Cuisine

Looks delicious

Reshmi Mahesh

Ishtu looks perfect and yummy..Love with puttu...

Saraswathi Ganeshan

Rich stew..looks delicious..

Mrs.Mano Saminathan

Potato stew really looks very nice and mouth watering!!

Priya Suresh

Potato stew goes seriously fabulous with string hoppers,looks yummy.

Rekha

wow awesome combo.. sounds very tasty..
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Swathi

Delicious potato stew Akila, I love it thanks for linking with Favorite recipes event: Breakfast recipes

Menaga Sathia

Super tempting stew!!

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Wonderful creamy stew...great for the coming winter months!

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Looks delicious. I like everything that has coconut in it:)

Unknown

Yummy,

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Nava K

This is nice and I never thought how potato can be used, I mean after mashing into a stew. We eat loads of potatoes and we definitely will go for the stew.

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Kathleen Richardson

I love, love, love anything with coconut oil and coconut milk. What a wonderful stew!

Unknown

Looks wonderful!

Divya A

Flavorful stew.. Nice clicks too dear :)
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Great recipe, looks awesome!

Kalyan

looks tempting & delicious...mouthwatering!

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Looks Tempting..!!

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That's new recipe with potato to me...looks yum....

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Anu

Looks yummy Akila..

Suryaprabha

Love them with aapam. Such a subtle curry to go with it. Looks so inviting and delicious!

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Kalyan

looks so fresh, inviting & delicious...mouthwatering!

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Looks very very good!

My Kitchen Antics

i make something similar but with a whole lot more veggies...its a great combo with appam and idiappam and all so i keep making it quite often.

Ramakrishnan

This is a great dish.One of my favorites.Great presentation.

Chitra

u made it perfect. lovely white color :)

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Looks lovely jay..

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This looks fabulous x

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Akila, love your recipes! This soup looks awfully tempting. It's great connecting with u, dear!

Shobhnaa

Interesting Potato stew recipe. Looking delicious!

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