Crispy Beetroot Fry

This is a quick and easy dish with only few ingredients. This is slightly different from the regular poriyal.

Ingredients:

1. Beetroot – Slice thinly as in picture
2. Slit green chili – as required. 
3. A bunch of curry leaves
4. Mustard seed for tempering
5. Cumin seed – 1 tspn or more as per the quantity of beetroot
6. Pepper powder – 1 tspn
7. Chaat masala – ¼ tspn
8. Oil for frying
9. Salt to taste

Preparation (Entire recipe prepared in low heat)

1. Heat oil in a large pan or kadai, add mustard seeds.
2. When the mustard seed splutter add cumin, chili and curry leaves saute for few seconds.
3. Add beetroot sprinkle salt and let them fry for a minute or two. 
4. Add pepper and chaat masala powder saute everything. Do not cover.
5. Check seasoning, sprinkle very little water if required. ONLY if required. 
6. Cook until it turns crispy but tender at each bite.

Enjoy this with sambar/rasam rice. When the recipe is done, curry leaves and chili would have turned crispy.