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Pre-Cooked potatoes for restaurant style curries.

Pre-cooking potatoes is an important step in making BIR (British Indian Restaurant) style curries and they also come in handy when using more traditional methods. 

No one likes a hard potato, so if you pre-cook potatoes before you start cooking your curry, you will know that your potatoes will always be cooked to perfection. 

In the following recipe, you will see how it’s done at the best curry houses.

About this recipe.

When I first started writing this blog, my main focus was on British curry house style recipes. Nowadays, I share recipes from all over the world but it is still the British Indian curry house style recipes that many people are looking for.

This is a recipe I learned at the beginning of my food blogging journey at a local curry house. I have since seen potatoes prepared in this way at many curry houses but the recipes are all quite similar if not exactly like this one.

Using this recipe, you will get perfectly cooked potatoes for your curries, every time, without fail. 

Can these pre cooked potatoes be used in other ways?

You bet! Although I first shared this recipe to help you achieve curry house curry perfection, you can use these potatoes in other ways too.

In fact, these curry-ready potatoes are actually a delicious potato curry in their own right.. Serve them as they are in the delicious sauce and it it very similar to a traditional bombay aloo or Bombay potatoes.

Combine the cooked potatoes with my pre cooked vegetable recipe and you have a delicious and hugely popular vegetable bhajee. You could also add spinach for saag aloo or paneer for a paneer aloo. Really, you can use these pre cooked potatoes in whatever curry calls for potatoes and also add some of the cooking stock for additional flavour.

It is difficult to overcook a potato!

You really can’t go wrong with this pre cooked potatoes recipe. The most important thing is to ensure that the potatoes are for tender before you add them to a sauce.

As long as the potatoes are perfectly cooked before adding them, you can add them at the end of cooking and know that they will be just as you want them.

So be sure to try them before taking your pre cooked potatoes off the heat.

How do you add these potatoes to a curry?

The best way to add them is right at the end of cooking. So you prepare your sauce and if meat is being added, add it too. 

Heat it all through and then stir in the pre-cooked potatoes and some of the cooking liquid for additional flavour?

Can you just add the potatoes without meat?

Yes. Many curry houses add pre-cooked potatoes to their sauces without meat. It’s an easy way to prepare a quick curry house style curry that is also vegetarian.

How long can you store these potatoes in the fridge?

You can keep them, wrapped tightly in the sauce in your fridge for about 3 to 5 days. These are great to have on hand when you want to add potatoes to a curry house style curry.

Can you freeze these cooked potatoes?

Yes! Be sure to freeze them in portion sizes that are convenient for you. Freeze them in some of the cooking stock and you can add that to your curries as well for more flavour.

Just be sure to defrost them completely before adding to a curry. I usually defrost them in my fridge overnight but you could also defrost the potatoes and sauce in a microwave if more convenient.

How do you get started using these pre cooked potatoes?

I have written recipes for all the most popular curry house style curry sauces. These recipes are just the sauces and you can add to them what you like.

So if you are a meat fan, try preparing some tandoori lamb or tandoori chicken tikka. I have many recipes for those on the blog.

If you would like to keep it vegetarian, add more veggies and your pre cooked potatoes. You’ll have a curry that is better than most you find at restaurants in about 10 minutes.

If you make these pre-cooked potatoes, you can add them to any of the following curries, with or without the meat.

A note about the following recipes: Each of the sauces below require you to make a curry house style base sauce. This is how these curries are prepared at the best curry houses.

If you would like to try your pre cooked potatoes in a curry house style sauce without first having to make the base sauce, be sure to try my no-base sauce versions of these curries here.

Step by step photographs.

 

You might also like to try these curries with the most popular meats with full instructions.

Tikka Masala Sauce
Korma Sauce
Chasni Sauce
Methi Sauce
Saag Sauce
Bhuna Sauce
Chilli Garlic Sauce
Dhansak Sauce
Madras Sauce
Vindaloo Sauce
Phaal Sauce
 

Have you tried this recipe for pre cooked potatoes? 

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