{"id":297,"slug":"bengal-potatoes","title":"Bengal Potatoes","description":"Bengal potatoes is an Indian side dish. Serve as a snack with drinks, or as part of an Indian meal.","ingredients_raw":["Ghee or oil","2 teaspoons panch puran","Approximately 2 lb potatoes, unpeeled and cut into chunks","Ground turmeric","Chile powder (preferably not too hot—e.g. Kashmiri chile )"],"ingredients_norm":["ghee or oil","panch puran","potato","ground turmeric","chili powder"],"steps":["Put a little ghee into a large heavy-bottomed pan with a good lid over medium heat.","Add panch puran, and let it cook gently until the seeds start to pop.","Add potatoes to pan, stirring so that the seeds coat the potatoes evenly.","Add a little ground turmeric—enough to just color the cut surfaces of all the pieces.","Add a little chile powder to taste. The quantity varies depending on your palate, and the strength of the chile.","Stir well to distribute the spices.","Do one of the following:","Put on the lid, turn down the heat, and allow the potatoes to cook in their own steam until cooked through. A little extra water can be added if necessary, but as little as possible should be used. The potatoes should not boil.","Put the spiced potatoes on a tray in a hot oven until cooked through."],"categories":["Side dish recipes","Recipes using potato","Indian recipes","Vegetarian recipes","Recipes using chile","Naturally gluten-free recipes"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":60,"servings":"4–6","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Bengal_Potatoes","source_ref":"4527528","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Bengal_Potatoes&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"0b79ab4e9e05c5c945896850291ac10f732d5f61ba05464fc5451e6ab8bbcb7a","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:35:14Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:35:14Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/bengal-potatoes"}