• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Padhuskitchen


  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • RECIPE INDEX
  • VIDEOS
  • USEFUL TIPS
  • TESTIMONIALS
  • FESTIVAL RECIPES
    • Avani Avittam
    • Pongal Festival
    • Vinayaka Chaturthi
    • Thiruvathirai
    • Navratri Recipes-Navratri Sundal Recipes
    • Varalakshmi Vratham
    • Karadaiyan Nombu
    • Tamil New Year
    • Adi Perukku
    • Krishna Jayanthi
    • Diwali
    • Karthigai Deepam
    • Christmas
    • Onam
  • CONTACT
  • Side Dish For Chapati

Potato Stew Recipe-Kerala Style Potato Stew-Side Dish for Appam-Idiyappam-Chapathi

February 27, 2018 by PadhuSankar 4 Comments

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe

Potato stew/ishtu is a very simple dish made with potatoes and coconut milk. It is a fantastic side dish for appam, idiyappam and even chapathi. It is easy to make and tastes very delicious. Today we will learn how to make potato stew following this easy recipe with step wise pictures.

Potato Stew-Side dish for appam-idiyappam
5 from 1 vote
potato stew
Print
Potato Stew-Side Dish for Appam-Idiyappam
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
30 mins
 

Potato stew/ishtu is a very simple mildly spiced dish made with potatoes and coconut milk. It is a fantastic side dish for appam, idiyappam and even chapathi. It is easy to make and tastes very delicious.

Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: Kerala
Keyword: Potato stew-Side dish for appam-Idiyappam
Servings: 2 people
Ingredients
Ingredients needed
  • 3 Potatoes (medium size)
  • 1 Onion (thinly sliced)
  • 3 Green Chilli slit
  • 1 cup Thin diluted coconut milk
  • 1 1/4 cup Thick coconut milk
  • 1/2 tsp Coriander powder
  • Salt to taste
For the Seasoning
  • 2 tsp Coconut oil
  • 1 inch Cinnamon
  • 2 Cloves
  • 1 Bay leaf
  • 1/2 tsp Fennel seeds (sombu)
  • Curry leaves a sprig
For Garnishing
  • 1 tsp Coconut oil
  • 1 sprig Curry leaves
Instructions
Preparations
  1. Wash and peel the skin of potatoes. Chop it into medium sized pieces. Slit green chillies and thinly slice onions.

  2. Extract thin and thick coconut milk. Check how to extract coconut milk.

Method
  1. Heat a tsp of coconut oil in a pan, add cinnamon, cloves, bay leaf and fennel seeds.

  2. When fennel seeds splutters, add onion and green chillies. Saute until onion turns transparent. (do not brown the onions).

  3. Add the potato cubes, coriander powder, salt needed and thin coconut milk.

  4. Cook until potatoes are soft. You can also pressure cook for 3 whistles.

  5. Once cooked, slightly mash a few potato pieces.

  6. Add thick coconut milk and simmer for a minute.

  7. Add a sprig of curry leaves and drizzle a tsp of coconut oil. Stew should be thin.

  8. Serve with appam or idiyappam or chapati.

Recipe Video

Recipe Notes

This potato stew goes very well with appam, idiyappam and also chapatis.

Potato stew with stepwise pictures

Wash and peel the skin of potatoes. Chop it into medium sized pieces. Slit green chillies and thinly slice onions.
Extract thin and thick coconut milk. Check how to extract coconut milk.

Method 

Heat a tsp of coconut oil in a pan, add cinnamon, cloves, bay leaf and fennel seeds.

potato stew with coconut milk

When fennel seeds splutters, add onion and green chillies. Saute until onion turns transparent. (do not brown the onions).

easy potato stew recipe

Add the potato cubes, coriander powder, salt needed and thin diluted coconut milk or water.

Cook until potatoes are soft. You can also pressure cook for 3 whistles.

Kerala style potato stew

Once cooked, slightly mash a few potato pieces.

Add thick coconut milk and simmer for a minute.

Potato Stew Recipe

Add a sprig of curry leaves and drizzle a tsp of coconut oil. Stew should be thin.

Serve with appam or idiyappam or chapati.

Potato stew-side dish for appam

You can make stew with mixed vegetables also. Check my mixed vegetable stew recipe.

More Side dishes for Appam and Idiyappam

Mixed vegetable stew

Vegetable kurma

Butter beans kurma

Sweetened Coconut milk (add little sugar to coconut milk)

Chapati Kurma 

Cauliflower Korma

Tomato Kurma

Related posts:

Steamed Rice Balls with Brinjal Gosthu
Indian Recipes for Lactating Mothers-Food to increase Milk Supply in Lactating mothers
Kambu Dosa Recipes-How to prepare Kambu (Bajra) Dosa-Pearl Millet Dosa Recipe
Dal Palak Recipe-Palak Dal-Spinach Dal-(step wise pictures)

Filed Under: Bachelor Recipes, Quick recipes, Side dish, Uncategorized, Video Recipe Tagged With: Coconut, Health Dish, Kerala recipes, Potatoes, Uncategorized




Previous Post: « Homemade Fruit Enzyme Cleaner-How to make Eco Friendly-Natural-Chemical Free Citrus Cleaner
Next Post: Vendakkai Puli Kulambu Recipe-Ladies Finger Kara Kuzhambu »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. ushasurya

    March 9, 2018 at 11:24 am

    Fantastic !! I make this the same way :)) except that I don't add cinnamon and bay loeaf:)

    Reply
  2. vatsala

    April 16, 2018 at 4:43 am

    For pumpkin pulipu kootu we can try curry vadam (made of karamani,Udit dal, chillies dried in sun and stored). It will taste yummy.

    Reply
  3. Priya s

    May 4, 2020 at 4:20 pm

    Today I made this potato stew…. superb taste…my in-laws praised me…all goes to padhu

    Reply
  4. Saqib

    November 20, 2020 at 12:48 pm

    The way of explaining the recipe is quite good. Pic after Pic and with Video… Thanks for everything.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

About the Author

Meet Padhu, the Chef, the photographer, recipe developer and web designer behind Padhuskitchen which features Simple Indian Vegetarian recipes, healthy recipes, kids friendly recipes, Indian festival recipes, traditional South Indian Vegetarian ...

Read More

Padhuskitchen Recipes on YouTube

Padhuskitchen Youtube

Let’s Connect

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Pinterest
  • RSS Feed

Browse by Cuisines

Kerala Recipes
Punjabi Recipes
Andhra Recipes
Gujarathi Recipes
Maharashtrian
Tamil Brahmin Recipes
Karnataka
International
Indo Chinese Recipes

Browse by Categories






Recent Posts

  • Ragi Masala Dosa-Finger Millet Masala Dosa Recipe-Kelvaragu Masala Dosai
  • Girmit Recipe-North Karnataka Style Masala Spicy Puffed Rice Chaat
  • Poha Sweet Snack-Breakfast-Kerala Aval Vilayichathu-Sweetened Rice Flakes
  • Kuska Biryani-Kuska Rice-How to Make Biryani without Vegetables or Meat
  • Soft Poha Idli-Aval Idli Recipe-Instant Beaten Rice Idli

Baby Recipes

Baby Recipes

https://youtu.be/ObMz4uI5zUc

Copyright © 2023 Padhuskitchen