Caramelized Sweet-Potato Slices

A very very easy to prepare and less time consuming dish...give it a try

Caramelized Sweet Potato

Preparation Time : 5 Minutes

Serves : 2

Ingredients:

1. 1 medium big Sweet Potato ( I bought the Purplish colored one ) sliced into thin wafer thin slices.
2. 1/2 cup Jaggery or to your taste
3. 2 TSP Ghee or purified butter
4. couple of pinches of Cardamom powder

Procedure:

1. In a heavy base pan pour Ghee and let it melt.
2. Once melted add the slices to it.
3. Give a gentle stir 2-3 times and cover the pan with lid on slow flame for 3-4 min.
4. Open the lid and give a stir and close again for another 4-5 min and cook on the slow flame only.
5. See if the slices are cooked, add jaggery to to the pan.
6. Slowly the jaggery will melt and you need to keep stirring so that it wont burn.
7. Cover with lid again and cook for 3-4 min or until slices are well cooked.
8. When cooked,switch off the hob and add cardamom powder and mix well.
9. Serve hot.

Do not cook on high flame to avoid slices getting burnt or Jaggery getting burnt.

Labels: Sweet Potato,patate douce,Süßkartoffel,patata dolce,batata,रताळ्याच्या गोड फोडी,

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Savoury Potato Shreds

Ingredients:

1 big potato grated

2 green chillies chopped

1/2 Tsp Cumin seeds

Salt to taste

1/2 Tsp sugar

2-3 Tsp Roasted groundnuts powder

2 Tsp Ghee

Procedure:

1. Put the grated potato in a bowl filled with water. Shreds should be completely under water.
2. In a pan pour Ghee. Heat well. Once heated, add cumin seeds and let it splutter. Add chopped chillies.
3. Remove the shreds from water with hands pressing it between your palms and removing all the water. When water is removed properly add this dry shred in pan.
4. Put all the shred in pan now.
5. Stir immediately as the potatoes will stick to the pan bottom.
6. Add salt to taste. Stir well. 
7. Cover with a lid and let it cook for couple of minutes on medium flame.
8. Steam it for couple of times till you see shreds are cooked well.
9. Add ground nut powder. and mix well. Add sugar.
10. Cook for another 2 minutes.
11. Check if potato shreds are cooked well and are soft.
12. Switch off the stove and serve hot with sweet yoghurt and/or tango Lemon Pickle.

साबुदाणा वडे ( Sabudana Vada)

Ingredients:
1 Cup sabudana (Sago)
1 Potato
2-3 spoons roasted groundnuts powder ( spoons what we use for drinking soup . That much quantity of ground nut powder)
salt to taste
2-3 green chillies ( finely chopped)
1 small spoon red chili powder
oil to deep fry
Cumin seeds
ginger (grated)

Procedure:

1. Soak the sabudana ( sago) in water for 5-6 hours. Keep water required to soften them. Sabudana should not become sticky.
2. Boil one potato in cooker itself.
3. Once the sabudana is ready, mash the potato well and add it to sabudana.
4. Add finely chopped chillies, red chili powder( this we are adding just for good color), salt to taste, jeera(cumin seeds),grated ginger into sabudana(soaked).
5. Mix it well.


6. Make medium size vadas.

7. Deep fry them in hot oil till you see nice redish brown color vada. (Keep the flame high first while frying,and then while removing them put the flame at sim.)

उपवासाची बटाट्याची भाजी

बनवण्या करता वेळ : १५ मिनिटे

साहित्य :

३ ते ४ बटाटे

अर्धी वाटी दाण्याच कूट

२ ते ३ हिरव्या मिरच्या

जिर

चहाच्या चमच्या एवढी साखर

२ चमचे तूप

चवीनुसार मीठ

क्रृती :

1. बटाटे कुकर मधे चांगले उकडून घ्यावेत
2. मध्यम आकाराचे तुकडे करून घ्यावेत
3. फोडणी करता तुप गरम करायला ठेवावे , चांगले तापल्यावर त्यात जिर , मिरच्यांचे तुकडे घालावेत
4. बटाट्याचे तुकडे घालावेत
5. १ / २ दा हलवल्यावर दाण्याच कूट , साखर , मीठ घालाव
6. १ वाफ येऊ द्यावी
7. गरम गरम भाजी , (उपवासाच्या )लिम्बाच्या लोणच्या सोबत किंवा दह्या सोबतहि छान लागते

टीप : बटाटे कधी कधी जास्तच शिजले गेले असतील तर , भाजी बनाव तानाची जी वाफ सांगितली आहे ती देऊ नए .