Sweet Potato Indian Fries

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Today I have come up with a interesting recipe my innovation with sweet potatoes. I wanted to make dry curry with sweet potatoes, but my mom and bro were making faces coz its something new Im experimenting with lolz. You can imagine a daughter cruely brutally forcing her new experiments to her family members ha ha well its funny but it makes me feel angry :P 

After making sweet potato halwa with carrot I still had a large one left of lying un-noticed, today I tot of using it and here I come up with Indianized version of sweet potato fries which is deep fried with aromatic flavors fused in giving it a unique taste, Im glad I tried it and you should trust me that my mom and bro who always criticize my new innovations were eating it without complaint :D

Lets Peek-a-boo into the recipe

Ingredients: 

Sweet Potato - 1 large (2 cups of potato fingers)

All Purpose Flour - 3 tsp (heap)

Corn Flour - 4 tsp (heap)

Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tsp

Pepper Powder - 1/2 tsp

Red Chilli Powder 1/2 tsp

Salt to taste

Water as per needed

Oil to deep fry

Some curry leaves

Red Color (purely optional)

Chaat Masala (optional)

Method:

- Peel the sweet potato and dip it inside water, Now Slice the potatoes evenly and then cut thick enough to fry as chips (see the pic below)

- In a pot take water and bring it to boil, now immerse these sweet potatoes and let it sit in boiling hot water for 1 min and drain it, allow it to come to room temp. 

- Mean while mix APF , cornflour, dry spices and salt with enough water to make a thick paste. And mix the blanched sweet potatoes into this spice mixture.

You are Ready To Fry!

- Heat oil in low medium drop these marinated potatoes one by one and fry it in batches also add curry leaves into the oil for extra flavor while frying. Each batch should take aprox 3-4 mins. Make sure you dont over fry Its ok if these r soft.

- When u are finish frying the whole thing, get ready to fry it again. This is done to obtain crispiness.

- You can fry it immediately after finishing frying 1st time or still keep it as it is and fry when ur ready to consume.

- 2nd fry should be again done in low medium heat till you get nice hard outer coating. dont over fry. 

- Once you are done remove it into tissue/ news papers and allow the excess oil to drain.

- When it cools you are ready to munch these crispy yummies

Toss Some Chaat masala to these fries and Serve (optional, see notes)

Ready to Munch as it is or serve it along with Ketchup/dip

Notes:

- As you peel the potato and cut it to fingers make sure u immediately immerse it into the water, As I noticed it was getting black and patchy as it gets dried.

- As I saw it was getting patchy I added some red food color to it, but later while frying it was realized that the color is getting too dark! but still as it was fried in low temp, I was able to maintain the color without make it look over fried or burnt. So if u want u can skip the food color and obtain nice golden brown color.

- Add more spices if u desire to eat spicy,  as it is sweet potato it observes the amt of spices I had added, you can add more spices for real spiciness if u wish.

- Adding chaat masala is purely optional. As I felt sweet potato had neutralized the spices I added chaat masala to these after 2nd fry and tossed it to mix well. It gave a very unique flavor on the whole. May be next time I would add spices a little more but not much! 

- I did the 1st fry in the afternoon and 2nd fry in evening. It was quiet crispy enough to store in air tight container until we consumed after 2 hrs, So u can really be calm while doing this! there is no urgency at all, you can take ur own time and do the 2nd fry when ever u desire

Impression:

I loved the new taste in my mouth! Just different. I planned to blog this today itself as new innovation of 2014 and was eating it again and again to give it a name :P lol I can be funny ;)

My bro dosent like sweet potato, but later he started asking me where is the fries u were making? and he had his share without any fuss

My Mom She told me 2-3 time that she liked it, it has come out very nice, except for the chaat masala, she would have liked more with sweeter taste! (now thats her choice she dosent like much of chatpata flavor from chaat masala)

Also My mom said she will bring more sweet potatoes and I should make this again!

My dad is sweetheart he eats all my cooked food without any fuss! yes he do gives his gentle reviews as he eats but for this he dint say anything which meant he liked it and was ok with the taste!

Dear Friends Hope u enjoyed this new recipe Also do try making it! as winters is almost ending and sweet potatoes wont be available that easily after sometime :)

When u try pls give ur humble feedback So that others can benefit with ur reviews

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Bubye Until then 

With lots of love 

Aaraaa

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SWEET POTATO POHA

Healthy Carbs Is Healthy way to diet. Select ur Carbs and Do not Avoid It!!

I love Poha, Since the 1st I tasted in a educational trip from school. They were jains and I was a veggie for 15days along with them, I dint miss NV at all. Im so much comfortable with vegetarian foods And if one checks thru my blog Ive added very less NV recipes. Its not that we dont consume NV at home. My parents cannot eat until something NV is there as side dish. But me and my bro go ga ga with being vegetarian itself :D

Poha is nothing but Flatten rice or beaten rice. Very healthy and nutritious Packed full of carbohydrates and very filling as snacks or meals on the whole. If one is in diet ur dietician shall suggest avoid carbs but the fact is it isnt sensible to avoid carbs at all. So the point is when we consume carbs we should make sure we are not alternating it with much of fats. This turns the healthy carbs into fats our system fails to understand and there for puts it into fat deposition. 

For example Eating Potatoes is healthy carb. But the point is if u eat it boiled or roasted and consumed in form of salad's and spiced up chaats its very nutritious and filling. But the same if u fry and mix up with fats loaded food, then potato also becomes and ingredient to reserve fats to body. Simple because our system fails to understand what to absorb and puts the whole thing towards fat deposit.

Oh its just a little understanding towards misconception of carb. But honestly it is needed in a very healthy way in our daily diet :) So this poha is very rich in carb and nutritious too!!

The most important thing I learnt abt consuming carb is It helps in bowel moments. We often see people in diet complain abt constipation! Reason? - A diet low in carbs is also low in fiber and may lead to constipation so make sure cut carbs by reducing high sugar based product which gives empty carbs and calories. So dieters pls welcome Healthy Carbs in ur diet and stay Healthy


I was having some boiled sweet potato and tot of clubbing up with my normal so much liked savory poha!! 


Ingredients:

Flat / beaten rice - 1 cup
mustard seeds -1/2tsp
Green chillies - 2-3 chopped
Turmeric A fat pinch or more
Salt to taste
Few curry leaves (optional)
Peanuts 1tbsp
1 onion medium size chopped
Sweet Potato Boiled and Roughly Chopped One Cup
Oil 2-3 tsp
Coriander leaves to garnish


Method:

- Wash the poha / flatten rice In water for 2-3 times till all the particles remove be quick and light in hand to mix when washing. Drain the water and keep it aside in a bowl to rest for 10-15 mins maximum.
- Heat oil in a wok. Add mustard seeds Allow it to crackle 
- Lower down the flame to medium and add Chopped Onions green chillies, turmeric powder and peanuts, cook it for a minute or two till onion is little soft, peanuts little roasted. I prefer adding salt too at this point. 
- Once this is done add the boiled sweet potato and poha into the kadai and mix it well. 
- Check for salt and seasonings, Garnish it with coriander leaves.
- Serve hot or cold


Notes:

- In case ur including curry leaves add it at the  time u add onions
- Washing poha and allowing it to rest will result u giving fluffy soft poha's ready to eat.
- Peanuts add crunch and nutty flavor u may skip if u dont have
- Adding onion gives a difference of sweetness to the dish so dont omit until u have a reason not to consume onions 
- Spicing is done by green chillies, Add more if u want more spice
- Sweet potato Combines too well with the whole concept the creaminess of soft boiled potato is felt when eating this poha
- If u want to add more color to poha u may dilute turmeric in water and sprinkle from top and mix. But in my opinion color dosent matter Once it is prepared we find mild yellow color with nice green coriander leaves and chopped green chiliies. Peanuts also give enhancing multicolored look to the whole concept. 
- Do not cook much after adding poha, as it might dry out the moisture, and you may feel the dryness while eating. Let it remain soft. 
- If u have to reheat it, Sprinkle Some water from top and heat again to maintain moisture balance. 
- If u want to add in more salt u can sprinkle salted water and mix while cooking/ reheating.


Impression:

The Whole platter is Colorful nutritious and very inviting. Flavors of each ingredients stay intact, Blend in well while eating. Makes a gud lunch box for kids too :)

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