Batate Song

Batate Song

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Ingredients:
2 medium sized boiled potatoes
2 medium sized onions thinly sliced
1 teaspoon of coriander seeds
2 tablespoons of grated coconut
6 dried red chillies
1 tablespoon/1 lemon sized tamarind
3 tablespoons of oil
Salt to taste
Preparation Method:
1. Pressure cook potatoes with 1 cup of water and salt for 2-3 whistles. We want the potatoes well cooked & soft.
2. Once the pressure is off the cooker, peel the potatoes and break them down into small pieces using your hand into a bowl. Keep them aside.
You can cube the potatoes but when they are roughly smashed using your hands and are broken down into small pieces, they blend well with the masala and gives the song/saung a nice, thick consistency. The starch in those tiny pieces of potatoes, will leach into the masala & help in bringing about a nice thick consistency.
2. Peel and slice onions. Keep them aside.
3. Roughly make pieces of dried red chillies & fry them with few drops of oil for 2 minutes in a tempering pan and remove it off heat. Then let it cool down completely. 
As dried red chillies are fried & cooled down, they crisp up & are easily ground into a paste. Hence, the frying step. Also, fried, dried red chillies impart a different taste to this dish, unlike dried red chillies that aren't fried. It does make a world of difference in the taste of this dish, in the end. 
4. Once cooled grind fried red chillies with coriander seeds, grated coconut and tamarind into a very smooth paste using as much water as required. Keep the ground masala aside. 
Coconut is added just to help grind all the ingredients together into a smooth paste, so, do not add excess coconut. It'll ruin the taste of song/saung.
5. Heat oil in a wok and add in sliced onions. Add salt to fasten it's cooking and saute the onions. Fry onions till they are translucent.
6. Once the onions are half cooked/translucent, add in cooked potatoes pieces, the ground masala and mix well. Check and adjust salt.
7. Add in about 1/4 cup water if required to cook the onions and bring together all the ingredients. Do not add excess water, we need a semi dry gravy in the end. 
8. Cook on medium flame. Let it simmer for 5-7 minutes till the onions cook through and all the water evaporates. You can then remove it off heat. 

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