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sitproperly on Sep 7th 2008 Gaudia Vaisnava

Did you know that potatoes and tomatoes don’t cook well together?

Neither did I. And maybe this is just some weird thing that I never noticed, but the story goes like this…

I wanted to make a nice sabji for Radhastami, which is today (happy Radhastami, btw). So I figured a simple potato, tomato, cauliflower sabji. Before cooking, Dwija told me that you can’t cook potatoes with tomatoes, that something in the tomatoes makes the potatoes take FOREVER to cook.

But “pish posh!” said I. And went to town. Two hours later, I’m still freaking waiting for the potatoes to cook.

Is this true? Is this really happening? Maybe Kurma prabhu could shed some light on it. I’m cooking with “crushed tomatoes.”

My theory is that it’s thicker than water so doesn’t work as well. Another theory is the acid content in the tomatoes.

Can anyone give a clue as to why?

I’ve noticed before that if you deep fry potatoes, they won’t cook all the way through because of the oil blocking the water, but this is different… or is it?

Help!

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