Potato & Salmon Dry Curry
I’ve partnered with Honest Cooking and Potatoes USA to bring y’all this spicy, nourishing, sensory scintillating, ready-in-30-minutes, Potato & Salmon Dry Curry.
These days, the word curry (which was supposedly coined by the British after being exposed to Kari in India in the 18th century) is used to describe most sauce-filled, spice-tinged dishes. When I was a youngster, my mom had two distinct types of curries she served us with rice or roti. One was saucy like this Potato and Cashew Curry and the other was simply less saucy – more dry, like this Ala Thel Dala. Now, both types of my mom’s curries had similar spices in them, and, no matter it they were fish or meat based, they would always contain potatoes because potatoes are one of Mother Nature’s best-kept secrets – right?!
As I’ve gotten older, I have come to adore dry curries. In my humble opinion, they don’t have to be paired with rice or roti. They are perfect alone or on a bed of broccoli slaw – like you see here. This spiced Potato & Salmon Dry Curry is my jam! Or rather – was my jam as it’s all gone now!
I whipped this up last Friday after my daughter and I got back from our gazillionth trip to the University of Georgia. While potatoes usually take some time to cook up, I cut their cooking time down significantly by chopping them and microwaving them first while I prepared a spicy dry rub. I used the dry rub to coat the salmon with before sauteing it with the holy trinity of Sri Lankan cuisine – onions, garlic, and ginger. Then I added some tomato paste and a tad bit of coconut milk to the remaining dry rub spices; dropped the cooked potatoes into the coconut-tomato-spice mix and then added that to the salmon. And, this intoxicatingly aromatic and tasty dinner was done in 30 minutes!
No matter if you like your potatoes with a steak or in a Salmon dry curry, did you know that one medium potato can provide you with 45% of your daily value of vitamin C and more potassium than a banana and has only 110 calories?
Potatoes USA is the nation’s potato marketing organization. They provide inspiration, information, tools and education to potato lovers all over the world, so please connect with them on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram, and get to experimenting with the versatile potato by first trying them in this Potato & Salmon Curry ~ trust me, your senses will not be disappointed!
Ingredients
- 1 onion chopped
- 4 cloves garlic chopped
- 2 teaspoons fresh grated ginger
- 1 large potato cubed
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 2 teaspoons garam masala
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 teaspoon coriander
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 lb salmon cut into 6 or so pieces
- 1 6 oz can tomato paste
- 1/2 cup coconut milk
- Olive oil
Instructions
- Add cubed potato to a microwave safe bowl, drizzle a bit of water on it and microwave for 5 minutes
- While potato is cooking in microwave, add olive oil to coat a pan and place over a medium flame
- Add the onion and saute for about 5 minutes, then add in the ginger and garlic and let saute for about 2 minutes
- Meanwhile, mix the paprika, garam masala, turmeric, coriander, chili powder, salt and pepper to a bowl
- Add salmon pieces to bowl with spices and toss to coat
- Then place salmon in the pan with the onions, garlic and ginger and cook 4 minutes
- To the bowl with the remaining spices, add tomato paste and coconut milk and toss cooked potatoes into it
- Returning back to the pan with the salmon, flip salmon pieces over and add in the spiced potatoes
- Cover and let salmon and potatoes cook for about 4 more minutes
- Serve over broccoli slaw with avocados and lemon/lime and cilantro
Cooked with veg instead of potatoes and all I can say is YUMM!!!
Looks so good – such a great combination of flavours! I’m going to pin this to try out over the holidays.
potatoes and curry! you speak my foodie love language!! Can i come over for some?
This. Is. Awesome!!! I love the tutorial and absolutely love everything about this post. Serve me up some curry, please!
Curry coming right up! 🙂
Thanks so much Ala – hope you have a wonderful weekend xx
Dry curries are so flavorful and clean up up is much easier too. Loving the spice mixture and I would never thought to serve it on broccoli slaw, that is brilliant. I am craving curry every day it is this damper cooler weather. My eldest boy loves vindavaloo but I am more of a Thai curry girl. However this simple but salmon potato curry has sparked my interest! Sharing!
Oh my gawsh!!! Bobbi – I love vindaloo, just like your eldest! I could eat it without rice or naan or anything else – but never tried making it – thanks for inspiring me to give it a go soon and thanks for your sweet words, my friend!
I love this idea! I’ve never done a dry curry!
Thanks bunches Melissa – this is definitely worth a try 🙂
Oh man, this looks so flavorful! And that broccoli slaw base???? Potatoes are such comfort food for me – especially now that the weather has finally cooled down!
Potatoes are my comfort food too – especially steeped in spices! Thanks so much Ashley – hope you have a wonderful weekend! xx