Prep time: 12 minutes

Cook time: 30 minutes

Serves: 2 people as a side dish

Calories: 728

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Gingery-peanuty, slightly coconut-flavoured baby potatoes, with protein from peanuts, make a great dinner addition. This slightly spicy, gently sweet, crunchy and delicious recipe will be loved even by children!

Ingredients:

  • 300g baby potatoes
  • 1” ginger, cut roughly
  • 1 small bunch green coriander, chopped, about 5 tablespoons
  • 3 tablespoons water
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon cumin, ground
  • ¼ teaspoon red chili, ground
  • ¼ teaspoon sugar
  • 3 tablespoons coconut milk or coconut cream Click here to buy Coconut Milk
  • 5 tablespoons roasted peanuts, crushed in a mortar
  • ½ a lime
  • 2 tablespoons ghee or coconut oil Click here to buy Coconut Oil

 

 

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Instructions:

1. Boil potatoes uncovered in a saucepan for about 16-20 minutes, or until soft. Cool and peel.

2. While potatoes are boiling, combine ginger, coriander, and 3 tablespoons water in blender or food processor to make a paste.

3.Add salt, ground cumin and ground red chili to peeled potatoes.

4. Heat ghee or oil in a 10” frying pan on medium heat until hot and add 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin. Stir for about ½ minute.

5. Add ginger-coriander paste and fry for 2 minutes until water dries.

6. Add potatoes and sugar to paste. Fry for 2 minutes.

7. Add coconut milk and allow to cook for another 2 minutes, stirring.

8. Remove from heat. Add peanuts, mix well and squeeze lime and serve immediately.

 

Critical Ingredients:

You could substitute garlic for ginger and get a nice final product. Lime can be replaced with lemon juice. While peanuts give this dish flavour, I find it works nicely with roasted sesame seeds as well, for a similar nutty flavour.

If you’re allergic to either or both, watermelon and pumpkin seeds can be roasted and used. I use a combination of watermelon, pumpkin and melon seeds and flaxseeds if I know my guests have peanut allergies. They give both the nutty flavour and the crunch. The sugar can be omitted.

 

 

Baby Potatoes with Peanuts

 

Baby Potatoes with Peanuts

 

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