Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Chilakada Dumpa Pulusu (Sweet Potatoes Sour Stew)

Ingredients :
Sweet Potatoes  - 1
Tamarind Pulp / Paste - 1/4 to 1/2 cup
Onion - 1 medium sized
Green Chilly - 3
Grated Jagery - 4 tbsp
Red Chilly Powder - 1 tsp
Fenugreek leaves - few chopped (can also substitute with fenugreek powder)
Curry leaves - 1 spring
Water - 1 1/2 cup
Salt to taste
Oil - 2 tsp
Method :
1.First Wash the sweet potato and cut into round or cubes.chop the onions and green chilly.In a bowl mix water and tamarind pulp.prepare 2 cups of tamarind juice.
2.Heat the oil in a kadai add mustard, coriander,cumin seeds,when it splutter add onions green chilly,curry leaves and cubed sweet potato.saute for few mins till it leaves raw smell.then cover the lid and cook for few mins.
3.Now add this tamarind juice to cooking sweet potatoes.
4.Mix well,cover the lid and once bring to boil.Then add jagery,red chilly powder,fenugreek leaves/powder and salt mix well and cook till the sweet potatoes become soft.
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5.Serve with hot rice,Papad or Vadiyam.

27 comments:

SathyaSridhar said...

New n Different pulusu,,looks delicious n great dear..

Swathi said...

Swpna,

I liked sweet potato in sour curry. looks really good.

MyExperimentsWithFood said...

My all time favorite dish. Tastes excellent with pappu and rice.

Unknown said...

sounds very interesting...must be very tasty...

Nithya said...

Wow.. this is interesting and yummy :)

Priya Suresh said...

Very interesting stew, thanks for sharing..

Sushma Mallya said...

Interesting one, so different and nice...

Panchpakwan said...

New stew too me..sounds very interesting..

Gita Jaishankar said...

This is new to me..sounds very flavorful and tasty...lovely clicks :)

GayathriRaj said...

Hey its really very nice and different....thanks for such a recipe...

Unknown said...

We r having baked chilakada dumpas right now...and later in sambar..Pulusu looks yummy
Smitha

Kanchana Praveen said...

Very good presentation. Pulusu recipe sounds interesting .....

Nithu Bala said...

Yum yum yummy..

Suhaina said...

wow, quite a new dish for me. looks very good.

Life is beautiful !!! said...

One of my friend taught me this...a very flavourful dish and I never thought before we can use sweet poatato in this way.

Smita Srivastava said...

This recipe is new to me but surely looks inviting ... Need to try asap !!

Smita
@Little Food Junction

Unknown said...

Thank you all for your lovely comments.....

Uma said...

a different approach of cooking sweet potato.. am eager to try it..

Hari Chandana P said...

my fav pulusu.. looks very tempting.. simply superbbb

Subhie Arun said...

frst time here..lov ur pace..glad to follow u...sweet potato stew..looks yummy n inviting!

Unknown said...

Thanks Hari Chandana,Subhie Arun thanks for visiting my blog.........

Hayley said...

Wow..intrsting swapana..looks lovely..

shahana said...

New recipeto me.Looks so tempting!

shahana said...

New recipeto me.Looks so tempting!

Unknown said...

Thanks Jagruthi and Shahana.....

Krishnaveni said...

very nice presentation for a delicious dish

Shanthi Krishnakumar said...

Sounds different and interesting