Emperor Babur got this magic vegetable to India. You don't know how much I thank him on a daily basis. Had I got his picture, I would have kept it in the temple at my home. Had I been there during his reign, I would have thanked him personally for getting potatoes from Turkey to India - it would have been a long, hectic, tiresome, bum-breaking journey. I say bum-breaking because I doubt he would have walked all this way, he was surely riding his horse - but then that's another story.
I have never come across any person who does not like potatoes. Rather I know many who love potatoes. And why not?! Potatoes make food delicious and eatable. Imagine the kadva methi ki bhaaji. As soon as the potato enters this bhaaji, it enhances the bhaji and we are able to stand the methi part of it. Hence in a way potato acts as an agent who will ensure we eat healthy.
Everything good would have the potato. Like chaat, Dosa, pav bhaaji, wada pav, sandwich, finger chips, burgers, etc. Now stop thinking of dishes which don't have the potato. Believe me, the dishes that don't have the potato are just plain unlucky. And am sure secretly they are modifying their recipe to accommodate this loved vegetable.
Potato tastes good in gravy as well as sookha. The aalu bhaaji, dum aalu, bateta nu shaak are all favourites.
Kids love potatoes - that is one vegetable which you wont need to coax your child into eating. They will happily relish it and even compliment you for making it.
When you go to shop vegetables, you waste a lot of time in selecting the right veggie. But potatoes are simple. All that is needed is for you to tell the bhaiya "Ek kilo aalu dena" and he will just give it to you. That is because all potatoes are good potatoes. There is no discrimination between them.
Potatoes can be eaten in many ways. Boiled, pan fried, deep fried, with skin, without skin, mashed, chopped, eaten whole and more. There are a hundred things you can make with the potato. See how simple the potato makes our life!
After all this, all I can say is that we have a lot to learn from the potato. Be it its simplicity, friendly nature, its versatility, its love for all, its humbleness etc. Hence be like a potato. But don't mistake it for being a couch potato! Share this to mark you love for the potato <3
