Mouth-Tingling Potatoes

Tepla Ambat

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    as a side
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Nutmeg Trail

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2022

  • About

A firework display in your mouth, reaching every tastebud. There is a firecracker of dried chilli offset by creamy coconut milk, sweet red onion and a snap of tangy tamarind. Like smoke trails in the sky after the explosion, you are left with a cooling, tongue-tingling effect to ready you for the next bite.

Sichuan peppercorns tend to steal the glory internationally for their mouth-numbing quality, but there are other varieties from across Asia that bring this extra dimension to foo