Even the term “Potato Fry” is so salivating right? Among the myriad of ways to fry the potatoes, this is my new found favorite and the whole family loves it. So this is on the menu quite often. The only potato fry I knew while growing up was the one where my mom used to grind the ginger and curry leaves and use that as the masala. It was a standard in every festival along with sambar. When my MIL visited us she made another simple potato fry using just onions and chilly powder and I was addicted to that for a while.

When I came across “Chettinad Potato fry” for the first time I called my mom and told her that I was making “Chettinad Potatoes” imagining that this would be the first time she is hearing that .. silly me . And she goes “Oh you grind this dal .. this and so on”. I was left speechless for few seconds since she has never made it before. Oh well, it has been almost 10 years since I left home and so much has changed.

And sorry about the yellow tinted picture, thanks to the light inside the house. I am still working on, well actually bugging K to fix the window so I could take pictures in natural light. One of these days it will happen *sigh*.