Losune kook (Garlic chinese potatoes)

This dish is generally prepared with baby potatoes.  Here I tried with chinese potatoes(kook).

Ingredients

1.   Kook(chinese potato)              -- ½ kg

2.   Chilly powder                            -- 1 tbsp

3.   Garlic flakes                               -- 10 to 12

4.   Tamarind                                    -- small piece

5.   Mustard seeds                          -- 1 tsp

6.   Oil                                                --  1 or 2 tbsp 

 Method

Wash and peel the skin of chinese potatoes, add little water and pressure cook it for one or 2 whistles with little salt.

Remove the skin of garlic and make paste with chilly powder and tamarind.  Strain the cooked chinese potato.  Marinate this garlic paste and keep for 10 minutes.

Heat oil in kadai, add mustard seeds, when it splutter, add marinated chinese potato, mix well, cover and cook in low flame till it gets nicely roasted.