9 March, 2016
Sweet Potato Kootu | Sihi Genasina Kootu |
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Here is one more sweet potato dish. It is a conventional recipe, made during winter. Only black pepper is used to make it hot.
All the ingredients used in this sweet potato kootu recipe is good for health including sweet potato, specially during winters.
This Kootu is made in two ways… one by using Lentil (Toor dal) and another without using Lentil. However this kootu tastes awesome in both ways
Here you can check the recipe of Cabbage green Peas Palya/subji and one more south Indian special stir fry Tapioca stir fry or Maragenasu Palya
Ingredients : measuring cup used – 250 ml
- Cooked Toor/arahar dal – 1 cup
- Sweet potato – 4 big
- Salt to taste
- Jaggery powder – 1 or 2 tsp
To dry roast :
- Black lentil / urad dal – 2&1/2 tbsp
- Black pepper corns – heaped 1/2 tbsp
- Cumin seeds – 1/2 tbsp
- Grated dry coconut – 1/2 cup
- Curry leaves – 1 sprig
For tempering :
- Ghee – 1/2 tbsp
- Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
- Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
- Curry leaves – few
- Grated dry coconut – 2 tbsp
- Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
- Asafoetida – 2-3 pinches
PROCEDURE :
- Wash, peel, cut and cook sweet potato with enough water
- Roast all the ingredients under the heading ” to dry roast ” till light brown and grind to a fine powder
- Add ground powder, cooked Toor dal, jaggery & salt to the cooked sweet potato…mix everything well
- Add water to get required consistency…..
- Bring it to boil by stirring so that it won’t stick to the bottom
- Prepare tempering using the ingredients under the heading ‘ for tempering ‘ and pour it over the Kootu
- Serve hot with rice or rice rotti
However if you are willing you can go through some other recipes which uses genasu/sweet potato as a main ingredient, Like –
- Sweet Potato Paratha | Sihi Genasina Paratha |
- Sweet Potato Dry Curry | Sihi Genasina Palya |
- Sweet Potato Sagu | Sihi Genasina Sagu |
- Genasina mosaru bajji | Sweet Potato raita |
- Sihi genasina holige | Sweet Potato Puran Poli |
- Sweet Potato Rice Flour rotti | Genasina Akki Rotti |
- Sweet Potato Capsicum stir Fry | Palya | Subji |
- Sweet Potato Kootu | Sihi Genasina Kootu |