Vrat wale Sukhe Aloo

Vrat Wale Sukhe Aloo / Sookhe Aloo or Falahari Aloo is dry potato subzi made during fasting days in minimum spices. This North Indian Style Aloo Sabzi is made in tempering of jeera in ghee.

It is gluten-free, can be made vegan friendly (without ghee) and can be served with meals as side dish. It is rich in carbohydrates and gives instant energy boost when eaten especially during fasting days.

About Vrat Ke Sukhe Aloo/Sookhe Aloo

Sukhe Aloo is a simple potato dish made especially during fasting by people in India. Boiled potatoes are made in the dry form or in curry form. Sukhe aloo( dry potato) can be had as the main dish with kuttu/singhara paratha or pooris( Buckwheat/Water Chestnut flatbreads), that are eaten during fasts)or as a snack.

It is very easy to make these potatoes with minimum or no use of spices.

As a kid, I and my sister always looked forward eating this with plain curd/yogurt when mom made these during her fasting days.

Ingredients to make Vrat wale Sookhe Aloo

Boiled potatoes, Jeera/Cumin Seeds, Ghee and Sendha Namak/Rock Salt.

You can use table salt when making for regular meals.

You can substitute ghee with oil but the taste of this dish is enhanced when made in ghee. Also, people prefer using ghee in making Vrat Ka Khana.

How to make Vrat Ke Sookhe Aloo

• Peel and mash the potatoes into thick chunks.
• Heat ghee in a pan, add cumin seeds and when it starts to crackles add green chillies and fry for a second then, add potatoes.
• Fry the potatoes nicely, add sendha namak and serve hot.

What is Sendha Namak

Sendha Namak is Rock Salt, a type of salt that is used in making fasting food, because Table salt is sea salt that is made from sea water that may contain some living forms and impurities of marine creatures during the extraction process and is also made chemically. Whereas Rock salt or sendha namak is a extracted from rocks as the name suggests, and as per Hindu traditions, one should have only veg and sattvic food during fasts.

Variations to make Vrat Ke Aloo

You can make these potatoes adding other spices like cumin and coriander powder, turmeric and red chilli powder if you have no restrictions on these spices during fasting days. while fasts or also when you are not fasting and serve it as the main dish with Parathas side dish with any of your favorite dal or vegetable curries.

Serving Suggestions

You can serve Sukhe Vrat Ke Aloo with Vrat ki Poori, Vrat Ka Paratha(Kuttu Poori/Paratha). It is a filling meal with Vrat Ka Dosa and plain yogurt or any raita of your choice (vrat friendly).

You can also serve it with your regular meals like Dal Rice or Methi Paratha, Whole Wheat Paratha or Poori.

Use these vrat ke Aloo as a topping for Vrat ki Papdi Chaat with vrat friendly papdi ( gluten-free crackers made with kuttu atta or rajgira atta).

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