Spicy Sweet Potatoes

March 16th, 2009 filed under Appetizers, Vegan

This delicious dish makes a great appetizer or can be served as snack with tea. Sweet potatoes spiced up with lemon and ginger juice makes a mouth-watering dish.

Recipe serves 4.

Ingredients:

• 2 medium boiled sweet potatoes
• 2 medium boiled red sweet potatoes
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon ginger juice
• 1/2 teaspoon salt (adjust to taste)
• 1/2 teaspoon black salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper (adjust to taste)
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon roasted ground cumin seed

For Garnishing:

• 1 minced green chili (adjust to taste)
• 2 tablespoon minced cilantro

Method:

1. Boil the sweet potatoes, don’t over cook.
2. Peel the skin and slice them 1/8 inch thick, it’s easy to slice after potatoes are cooled off.
3. Mix all the spices with ginger juice and lemon juice.
4. Spread the sweet potato slices over a plate.
5. Spread few drops of spice mix over every piece.
6. Stack the sweet potatoes slices over red sweet potatoe slices provides nice color white over dark pink.
7. Garnish them with minced green chili and chopped cilantro.
8. Serve them at room temperature.

Tips:

1. They can be prepared day before, garnish them just before serving.
2. If you prefer mild take out the seeds from green chili before mincing.
3. It is ok to use just white or red sweet potatoes.

11 Responses to “Spicy Sweet Potatoes”

1. raaji says:

   January 23, 2010 at 1:02 am

   hello manjulaji ,can you tell me how to make vegetarian patties

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   • Jaya says:

     January 23, 2010 at 5:06 pm

     Raaji, look at her recipe for Vegetarian Cutlets. They should be what you are looking for.

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2. Nirvana says:

   September 25, 2009 at 2:50 pm

   Hi Manjula,
   I am inspired to be vegetarian (lets live and let others live) through your recipes.Your recipes are tasty, simple and healthier. Just to say thank you.

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3. maniksha says:

   August 14, 2009 at 5:29 am

   hello aunty,
   you are too good. i have tried many of your recipes and they all come out tooooooo good. keep up the good work. can you post the recipe for the “rusk”. like suji rusk or whole wheat rusk.

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4. Gunjan says:

   May 22, 2009 at 6:25 pm

   Love ur food …..always wanting to see new recipes

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5. Sadia says:

   May 18, 2009 at 9:06 pm

   Hello Aunti
   i love your food i tried to make some but i didnt do well but i will keep on trying love your receipes thank you

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6. Nikki says:

   April 26, 2009 at 12:57 am

   The sweet and spicy combination sounds great.

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7. Sunita says:

   March 23, 2009 at 2:47 pm

   hi Aunty,

   I am trying all ur recipies, they r very good. Thank u so much. Plz post Thepla with methi leaves. thanks

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8. raymon says:

   March 19, 2009 at 8:31 pm

   very good , i was looking for someone that can teach a long time ago , thanks good work .

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9. Lakshmi says:

   March 19, 2009 at 5:57 pm

   Hey Nashwa, click on the “ABOUT” button and it tells you all about Manjulaji
   Yes, she is vegetarian.

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10. Nashwa says:

    March 18, 2009 at 9:55 am

    I love your food and I have copied all of your cooking. My question is are you a vegatarian?

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