Monday 1 June 2009

Fried yams (Chena Porichathu)


Chena porichathu/ Fried Yam is one of our favourite side dish and makes a good vegetarian replacement for the fried fish or and any other fried non-vegetarian dish. The only hard part is the cleaning. The skin has to be completely cleaned and should be done with a gloves if possible. Because raw yam is a skin irritant and can really be itchy. So don’t handle the raw yam without gloves unless you love scratching!!

Ingredients:
400g Yam (chena) (cleaned weight)
1 tbs Kashmiri Chilli Powder
½ tsp turmeric powder
¼ cup(4 tbs) water
¼ cup oil (4 tbs)
Salt- as required

Preparation:
1. Peel the yams and wash it. Slice it into 1/2 cm thickness. (you can fry it without further slicing also). And then slice it again keeping the same thickness into long juliennes. You can also cut them into cubes, if you prefer.
2. Heat a large frying pan, add oil and all the other ingredients and mix well.
3. COVER and cook on medium high heat stirring occasionally to avoid charring for about 25-30 minutes or when they start browning. Serve as a side dish for plain rice. As easy as that and Simple too, and taste.........You should know!!.

5 comments:

Pooja said...

That is a lovely side dish! Spicy n delicious!

Ramya Vijaykumar said...

Oh my my its such an amazing dish I love this it also makes a wonderful snack!!! nice temtping pic there Shabs!!!

Manju said...

gimme some rice with rasam/sambar and chena in any form, im a happy camper!! looks nice and spicy and crispy! just how i like it!

Shabs.. said...

thx pooja,ramya n superchef for stopping by n taking time to comment.......i have to hide some of these fries before i give to my husband,else i wont get any....:)

Seena said...

Shab, check out my yam fries, hope u will love that too.. I don't like peeling yam though don't have itching.. :)

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