Mushrooms and Potatoes, Cooked with Garlic & Ginger

This is one of those ‘home-style’ dishes that you rarely find in Indian restaurants. It is a thick, earthy stew that used to be made only when slim monsoon mushrooms made a brief, seasonal appearance. Now, even in Indian cities, you can buy cultivated white mushrooms all year round. Since these mushrooms come in a variety of sizes, you will have to use your own judgement about whether you should halve them, quarter them or leave them whole. They should end up being about the same size as th