Potato Kurma | Aloo Kurma Recipe | Potato Kurma Recipe

December 17, 2021 By Aarthi 46 Comments

Potato Kurma Recipe with step by step pictures. Aloo kurma or Urulaikilangu kurma is made using potatoes, onions and coconut masala cooked together to create a curry. This goes well with chapati, appam, idiyappam even idli or dosa.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. About Potato Kurma

2. Version 1 : Hotel Style Potato Kurma Recipe

3. Version 2: Potato Peas Kurma Recipe

4. Version 3: Urulaikilangu Kurma Recipe

5. Recipe Card

6. Potato Kurma Recipe | Aloo Kurma Recipe | Urulaikilangu kurma

Potato Kurma Recipe

About Potato Kurma

Potato kurma is a spicy coconut based curry made by sauteing onions, potatoes and tomatoes in oil. The curry is thickened with a coconut masala which is made by grinding coconut with cinnamon, fennel seeds, pori kadalai, khus khus, chillies and melon seeds. The curry taste great with appam, idiyappam and chapati.

Potato Kurma is a popular south indian dish which is famous in hotels in india.

I had a bunch of potatoes, so decided to use that fast in the recipe so nothing gets wasted and bad. This is the first recipe which i made and it turned out yummy. It tasted yummy with roti.

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How to Make Potato Kurma

Take all ingredients for grinding in a blender and puree till smooth.
Now heat oil in a pressure cooker. Add onion and tomato and saute for 2 mins. Add potatoes, salt and water and pressure cook for 3 whistle. Now turn off the heat and let the steam go by itself.
Now add the ground masala and mix well. Bring it to a boil and simmer for 5 mins.
Add coriander leaves and mix well.
Serve.

Version 1 : Hotel Style Potato Kurma Recipe

now lets grind the masala, take coconut

add some roasted gram dal / pottu kadalai

some poppy seeds / khus khus

add in fennel seeds and cinnamon stick

ginger and garlic

dry red chillies

turmeric powder

make it into a smooth puree

take all ingredients

Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add onions and tomatoes

saute for a min

potatoes

add salt

add water

pressure cook till done

add ground masala

mix well

simmer for few mins

Serve

Version 2: Potato Peas Kurma Recipe

This is one curry which i make very often, but somehow i missed to share it here. Few days back i made this for dinner..Many of you have been asking me to share this recipe as soon as i shared the image on instagram. So here i am sharing you the recipe for simple potato kurma..

Pictorial:

Take all your ingredients

Take coconut in a blender

add in poppy seeds

Make it into as smooth puree..set aside

Heat oil in a pan, add in cumin, fennel and cinnamon

let them sizzle for a min

add in onions and chillies

Saute them well

Add in salt

Mix well..cook till golden brown

Add in ginger garlic paste

mix well

add in tomato puree

Cook till oil separates

Add in spice powders

Mix that around

Add in coconut paste

mix well

cook till oil separates

add in potatoes

mix well

add water

pour the mix to a pressure cooker and cook

now it is done

add in peas..this is frozen so i am using it in the last, if you are using fresh add it with the potatoes

mix well and simmer it for few more mins

finally add in coriander leaves and mix well

Serve

Version 3: Urulaikilangu Kurma Recipe

Potato kurma with roasted coconut and spices.

Amma makes this korma whenever she do appam for us. This is her signature dish which pairs excellent with that spongy appam. Because I have never seen her making this any other day other than those days.

How could I not add this in my blog. I was asking amma the recipe and one fine day amma made appam with curry and I clicked photos of that. If you are wondering about the recipe of appam, Its for my next post. So wait for it.

I cook lots of continental and western foods, but there is some kind of joy which clings to me when I prepare traditional foods from my house. Yes we have lots of tradition in our house, everything comes around food.

Magic of roasting spices

I love to see the magic that happens in the kadai while I make or roast spices. While doing that a wonderful aroma fills the entire house and my little sister peaks her nose in the kitchen and realises “ok there is something special today”. So She always ask me “Akka what are you cooking today”. I always tell her “Ah..A special dish”.. But I never tell the name of that until the dish is over and photos are clicked.

Ok this is one of that kind of dish, here the spices are roasted and ground which gives an awesome flavour to this dish. So with no more delay, off you go to the step by step recipe with pictures.

Pictorial

1) Take all your ingredients

2)Add it in a dry frying pan. Roast on low heat

3)Roast till golden brown

4)Grind to a smooth paste

5)Heat oil in a pan. Add in onions and saute for a min

6)Add in potatoes

7)Add salt and mix well.

8)Add little water and cook till potatoes are tender and cooked.

9)Add roasted coconut masala.

10)Mix well

11)Serve

12)taste great with appam.

Recipe Card

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Dottie

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THis looks delicious!! Did you put the chili pods into the blender whole, seeds, stems and all? Is this very spicy?

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Aarthi

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Dottie..Thanks for your comment..Yes I added every part of the chillies in..If you wish you could deseed it and add..you can reduce the amount of chilli as per your taste.I

I made it little spicy for me..And also the spiciness depends upon the chilli which you use..Some are spicier and some are milder.You can adjust as per your taste.

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faseela

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luks delicious

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Chitra

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Aarthi ur posts make me want to go back home....it reminds me of my mom's dishes...this is exactly how we make it too...

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Deeksha

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Gravy looks really very tasty. Thanks for sharing your Mom's recipe. Love to try this soon. Bookmarked.

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Zainab

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Hey Aarthi!!!! Thank u for dropping by. Its my first time here as well . Following you!!!

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Mrs K

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Thanks so much Arthi for following me,I am so glad to have found your blog,you have such excitingly yummy recipes,I have had a quick look through all the pictures and I am coming back to make some dishes from here.this recipe with roasted gram and potatoes is a killer,and appam with this is my absolute hot favorite:) I am following you back and look forward to more recipes from you!!!

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StephenC

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I am in the mood for some spice, some potato and some coconut. Is the coconut unsweetened? I won't see your reply unless you send it to scrout194[email protected]

Thanks

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An Open Book

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they would be absolutely perfect with appam..im drooling already

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Hamaree Rasoi

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Delicious looking apam and korma. Already started to drool over here.

Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi

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Tina

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Soooo spicy and flavourful curry..Perfect side with appam..Yummm.

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Nayana

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Aarthi...great recipie.thanks for stopping by..following you too.

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Aarthi

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StephenC..yes the coconut is unsweetened..

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Raji

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Superb korma...wonderful flavours, your kadhai and pan looks rustic and beautiful.

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Prathibha

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very delicious curry..looks perfect

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Ushnish Ghosh

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Dear Arthi
I feel good reading your comment at my blog and delighted that you are following my blog.
I cant access blog from Sahara desert. I can open some times , but the pictures dont open..very sad. I shall make it up when I am back, I can see the headings and you have very nice recipes.
Have a great week

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Christy

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This looks very spicy to me!:p

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Pushpa

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Delicious recipe..

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kitchen queen

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Hi thanks for visiting my blog and giving a lovely comment.you too have a nice blog with good recipes.

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Treat and Trick

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What a fabulous gravy! Thanks so much for stopping by and joining in my blog, look forward to reading your yummy post...

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Chandrani

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Potato curry looks so creamy and delicious.

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Reva

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Potato kuzhambhu looks super yum... perfect with anything..:) Loved it..
Reva

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Kaveri

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I too love cooking traditional age old recipes...This one sounds so flavorful and aromatic

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Priya

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Wat a flavourful kurma,seriously i can have it with anything.

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Jay

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wow..great combo of flavors..thanks for sharing aarthi..;)
Tasty Appetite

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Nicole Gamble

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Great recipe ! I made it! It`s delicious!!! Thanks for sharing!

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Inside a British Mum's Kitchen

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I can just smell these potatoes cooking!! Delicious - love the photos and the recipe sounds divine 🙂
Mary x

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Kristen

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Such a tasty combination. YUM!!

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Now Serving

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Yummy recipe; super cute pot and love the super cute dog on your profile 🙂

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Becky

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Thank you for stopping by my blog, and leaving your kind words. I love all of the wonderful spices in this dish.

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Jenn "Rook No. 17"

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Aarthi, this dish looks absolutely incredible!

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Manju

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I am pretty sure that this is a kind of kurma that my neighbor used to make for us sometime and I used to love it! Thanks for the recipe..im gonna try making this soon!

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anthony stemke

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This looks fabulous, love the sauce.

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Anonymous

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The potato curry would be perfect with rava dosa....perfect:)

Taste of Saras Kitchen
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Teena Mary

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Looks so yummy...Mouth watering !! You have a good collection of recipes Aarthi:) An award is waiting for you at my space:) Check out this link & grab it: http://teenzyummydelights.blogspot.com/2011/11/liebster-blog-award.html

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Kurmafan

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Hi arthi... tried this last night... it was awesome...added fresh green peas too and had it with chapatis. It was yummmmmo... Thanks for this super simple and tantalizingly tasty curry... This is gonna take place frequently in our menu...

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bincy

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your cooking pots are so lovely. i want them.. where do u buy that from?

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Aarthi

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@bincyI got it from my super market called lynns here in nagercoil.

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susi

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hi aarthi akka..2day mrng i tried this kurma...it really taste so good..thanQ for this recipe ... 🙂

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SEEMA SHARMA

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Hi aarthi...cn we use decicated coconut instead of fresh cocont

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Aarthi

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@SEEMA SHARMAyes u can use desicated coconut

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Meenakshi P

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hi aarthy i am regular viewer of ur blog .i tried this kurma .it really came out nice.all my family members liked it.keep posting new recepies.
thank you.

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Archana Swaminathan

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I tried this today.. It is actually a Superb hit in my family.. And from now onwards I will be a regular visitor to your blog..

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Raji

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looks yum. Plz tell me doesnt it need any tempering?

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- Aarthi
  
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  no need for tempering. but if you wish you can add
  
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Elakya Arul

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Hi Aarthi, Tried this recipe today.. It was tasty.. Thanks for the recipe

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