New Potatoes with Fresh Greens

This cross between potato salad and a simmered vegetable dish is another example of the creative ways in which subcontinental cooks work with potatoes. It’s great hot from the pan, perhaps even better at room temperature. There’s a mild heat from the touch of cayenne and from the ginger.

The recipe calls for small, thin-skinned new potatoes. If yours are under one inch across, leave them whole. The smallest we can find are usually about an inch and a half across; we cut them in half