Potato-Tomato Dish: Simple & Quick No Oil Recipe

If I were to get rid of one thing that I do every day that is cooking. Fortunately, I only cook once almost all the time except in some rare cases when we have great stuff like mushrooms (it's a rarity around here) or when my husband and I feel like eating extra. When it happens it's always light. 

Like this recipe.

And this recipe is for two people. 

~my share~

What are needed?

• 2-3 medium size potatoes (washed thoroughly, never peeled and thinly sliced)
• 5-6 ripe tomatoes, preferably round variety because they're juicy (chopped)
• salt to taste (I used a pinch since we're used to it already)
• red chili powder, according to your preference (I used half a tsp.)
• lemon juice, optional (I use it when it's too spicy for us)
• 1-2 tbsp. poppy seeds, optional (I generally add them because we have them and they induce sleep
• half to 1 a glass of water

What to do?

• In a deep pan, add chopped tomatoes and cook for 2-3 minutes
• Add salt and potatoes. Mix and cover on a low flame.
• After a few minutes, add red chili powder and poppy seeds. Mix again.
• Add little water at a time.
• Cook until the tomatoes get smashed and the potatoes get cooked.
• Check the taste.
• Let it cool a little bit and serve.
• Add lemon juice just before it is served. (Heat destroys vitamin C in lemon juice, but for the purpose of enhancing taste, lemon juice ca be added when the dish is still hot.)

~this time, this dish was eaten alone~

Serve alone or with roti!

~This one is with black and white sesame seeds. What a great way to eat sesame seeds!~

• When I make it for lunch, we usually have this with roti and our roti is not the usual roti. It's made of whole wheat flour which is grounded in a bigger grain, meaning, it's not refined at all and it's full of bran (fiber) then with it are mixed grounded flax, melon seeds, and watermelon seeds (readily prepared with vitamin B12 so we won't be ingesting B12 in one go), sesame seeds and zero salt.   
• Most of the times we eat this dish with one small roti each. Sometimes, half each of one big roti.
• Our cooked food, especially with rice or roti or chapati, vegetables always weigh more than the roti. For example, for 1 roti we will have it with a big bowl of vegetable dish.

This recipe can certainly be modified. 

Do let me know in the comment section below. 

Use the section of what do you think of this recipe, too!

Enjoy!