I love sweet potatoes because they taste so good and high in nutritional content. This sweet potato roast (Chinni Kilangu poriyal) is a very easy to make side dish for sambar rice or dal rice. To make this sweet potato fry, first you have to steam the sweet potatoes, peel the skin, slice and fry it with sambar powder & garlic, finally in cast iron pan, slowly roast it in oil. Slow roasting the sweet potatoes, always gives a nice crispy texture on outside and soft and tasty on inside. Adding spice powder, garam masala and garlic gives a nice flavor and taste to the sweet potato. This sweet potato stir fry Recipe|Sakkarivalli kilangu poriyal goes well with rasam rice / curd rice. Also check my other potato recipe BABY POTATO ROAST in my blog.
Ingredients
2 Sweet Potatoes, Medium Size
2 Big Garlic Cloves
1 Tsp of Sambar Powder
1/2 Tsp of Garam Masala
1/2 Tsp of Fennel Seeds (Sombhu)
1.5 Tbsp of Cooking Oil
1/2 Tsp of Salt or to taste
Method
- Wash the sweet potatoes and steam it in a steamer or idly cooker for 12 mins or until it turns soft. After it done, peel the skin and chop them into thin, circular slices.
- Crush the garlic in a mortar and pestle.
- Heat a pan with oil, when it is hot, add fennel seeds, after it sizzles, add sliced sweet potatoes, give a gentle stir, by flipping the slices to other side.
- In a medium flame, add crushed garlic, sambar powder, garam masala and salt, give a quick stir, do not break the slices, make sure the masala coats all the sweet potatoes pieces. Cover the lid and cook it for 5 mins.
- Take handful of water, sprinkle it over the veggies, turn the potato slices to other side, cover the lid and cook it for another 7 mins until it turns brown and crisp.
- Yummy sweet potato fry is ready to serve with sambar rice or dal rice
- If you don’t have sambhar powder, add 2 tsp of coriander powder, 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder and 1 tsp of red chilly powder.
- If you don’t have coriander powder and red chilly powder, replace it with cayenne pepper and black pepper powder.
- Always cook in cast iron pan / irumbu kadai to get crispy roasted potatoes.
- You can also marinate the potatoes in masala for 15 mins and then cook it.
- Adding curd gives little tangy taste to the potatoes.
- Adding garlic is to avoid gas flatulence.
Read more at http://foody-buddy.blogspot.com/2013/08/baby-potato-roast-urulaikilangu-varuval.html#lqWUjV1lO7EUdQve.99
Tips
- If you don’t have sambhar powder, add 2 tsp of coriander powder, 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder and 1 tsp of red chilly powder.
- If you don’t have coriander powder and red chilly powder, replace it with cayenne pepper/ black pepper powder and salt.
- Always roast the potatoes in cast iron pan / irumbu kadai to get crispy roasted potatoes.
- You can also marinate the potatoes in masala for 15 mins and then cook it.
- Adding garlic is to avoid gas flatulence.
Health Benefits of Sweet Potato
- High in vitamin A, B6, D and C.
- Good Source of iron and magnesium.
- Superior fiber content than other potatoes.
- Rich in beta carotene & antioxidants.
- Good for heart.
Its a good chance to use sweet potatoes compared to the usual potatoes. This is really nice, simple and makes a nice side. The recipe is certainly bookmarked.
I too love sweet potatoes…recipe looks interesting
Such a simple healthy any quick poriyal
Tasty and healthy stir fry
yummy ….
Love the use of sambar powder in the roast yummy looking sakkaraivalli kizhangu.
Simple n tasty fry!!
Wow … Crispy sweet potato fries.Superb
Shobas Delight
I love sweet potatoes too.. Looks yummy Gayathri… Thanks for sharing 🙂
wow.. looking so yum. 🙂 beautiful click as always
Never tried sweet potato this way….sounds yum….
That looks tempting..
My kind of fry..can finish that late happily anytime.
Nice looking sweet potato fry ! The photographs are also very nice!!
need sum rice n rasam now.by seeing ur pic i`l complete my lunch:)
They look perfect.
Delicious sweet potato fry looks wonderful.
I love sweet potatoes too.. Your recipe sounds interesting!
This is new fry to me… Will try soon…
A very interesting and unique recipe !! I have been trying to incorporate sweet potatoes in our diet for so long but couldn’t find any satisfying recipe. This is a perfect fit , thanks for sharing 🙂
I could never resist sweet potatoes with warm spices 🙂
lovely they are….tempting color!!
I recently got married, and have been looking for recipes online. I had sweet potatoes at home, and decided to look up a recipe. I someone stumbled onto this particular recipe, and it was the best decision I ever made! This recipe is super delicious, I even added some freshly squeezed lemon at the end, to give it some tang! Absolutely loved it! I am punjabi, but this went well with my black eye beans. Thank you for such an amazing recipe, I have a happy husband 🙂
Thank you so much seema for visiting my blog and very glad to hear that you and your husband liked the sweet potato dish, also love the idea of adding lemon juice at the end…stay tune to foody buddy..thanks….
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