Instant Pot Aloo Methi (Potatoes with Fenugreek Leaves)

April 7, 2018 by My Heart Beets

This aloo methi is salty, spicy, savory and full of flavor!

You will love this super simple recipe for aloo methi. You can have it on your plate in literally 10 minutes and most of that time is spent hands-off. This is why I love my instant pot, because I can make fabulous food in a fraction of the time it’d normally take.

This recipe for Punjabi aloo methi is so tasty! It has a chatpata (tangy) flavor thanks to the dried mango powder (amchur) and the black salt (kala namak). Serve this side dish with Indian flatbread like roti or naan and you will be in for such a treat!

Aloo methi is a dry vegetable dish featuring potatoes and fenugreek leaves. My recipe calls for dried fenugreek leaves, also known as kasoori methi, which is easily found at your local Indian grocery store or online. In fact, you may already have this ingredient if you’ve tried my popular butter chicken recipe. Just a pinch of this stuff transforms butter chicken into a restaurant-quality dish. It’s magical. Well, this recipe for aloo methi features kasoori methi as a main ingredient so there is quite a bit of it in the recipe! If you love the flavor of kasoori methi then you will love this dish for aloo methi!

My mom recently threw an Easter party for my son while my husband and I were out of town for a wedding. At the party, she served lemon rice and chicken bhuna and she also served this aloo methi. We weren’t at the party but we got to enjoy her aloo methi when we came back home after a long day of travel and oh my goodness, it was love at first bite!

I told her I HAD to have the recipe to share on my blog with you. It was the tastiest aloo methi I’ve ever had! Unfortunately, those of us with Indian parents know that they never measure ingredients…. like, ever. I was determined to recreate my mama’s fabulous aloo methi, so with a list of the ingredients in hand, I set out to experiment. And I did it! This is as good as my mama’s aloo methi and I consider that a huge success.

What I love about aloo methi is that it’s so easy to make – especially when you have my onion masala prepared. Having masala ready to go makes this dish an almost dump and go recipe. I say almost because you still have to brown the cumin seeds and mustard seeds in hot oil for the best flavor.

If you’re not familiar with my Indian Onion Masala Series then you have to check it out! As part of the series, I share recipes that call for exact amounts of onion masala. Click on the graphic below to find out how to make onion masala, how to store it and to find other recipes that call for it.

If you’ve never used black salt before, you’re in for a surprise. When you add it to the instant pot, you might be like whoa – this stuff smells strong. It is pungent – cooking the black salt will remove some of that sulfurous odor. My husband doesn’t like black salt on it’s own but he loves this aloo methi. I personally love black salt (I used to sprinkle it into my coca-cola as a kid lol… anyone else do that?). Anyway, my point is – the sulfurous smell will definitely mellow out once the dish is done.

Serve this aloo methi with a saucy curry (like the goat curry pictured below) or dal and a side of Indian flatbread like chapati/roti or naan. Then definitely come back here and leave me a comment letting me know what you think! 🙂