Sweet Potato Recipe-Sweet potato palya
Sweet potato palya can be consumed as accompaniment with meal or it can be a snack. During sweet potato season it is just seasoned with some spices and had just like that. A delicious evening snack along with tea from Udupi region is here for you.
Sweet potato palya ingredients
- Sweet potatoes- 2 big size
- Jaggery- big lemon size
- Salt- 1 to 1.5 tbsp
- Grated coconut- Handful
- Green chilly- 2 nos.
- Turmeric powder- 1/2 tbsp
Seasoning Ingredients
- Oil- 3 tbsp
- Mustard seeds- 1 tbsp
- Urad dal- 1 tbsp
- Broken red chilly- 1 no.
- Curry leaves- few
Preparation
- Chop sweet potato in to medium sized cubes. Slit the green chillies. Keep them aside.
Method
- Heat a pan/kadai add 3 tbsp of cooking oil, mustard seeds, urad dal, broken red chilly and curry leaves. When mustard seeds splutter add the chopped sweet potato cubes. Saute for a while.
- Now add salt, jaggery, slit green chillies and turmeric powder. Saute well.
- Add 1.5 cups of water and let it cook in low flame. Keep stirring in between for even cooking.
- When sweet potato cubes turn almost mushy add grated coconut, give a stir and switch off the flame.
- Sweet potato palya is ready to serve. Tasty evening snack with hot tea.....
Note:
- Do not skip adding grated coconut, it enhances the taste.
- This palya should be sweeter, so use only minimum green chillies. Otherwise it turns spicy and cannot be consumed as snack.
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