Sweet potato curry (Madhura kizhangu pulinkary)

 

This is a nice curry that goes well with boiled rice. I have had it during childhood in Kerala.

Ingredients

2 cups peeled, cleaned, diced sweet potatoes

A small ball of tamarind, soak in half cup water for 2 hours, mix and squeeze out and discard the tamarind remains

A small onion cut fine

1/3 tsp turmeric powder

1/3 tsp red chilli powder

Salt to taste

2 cups water

To temper

1 tbsp oil

1/3 tsp mustard seeds

1 red chilli broken to pieces

A few curry leaves

Instruction

-          Add the cut onion, salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and the tamarind water to the diced sweet potatoes. Pour water into this and keep on high flame.

-          When it boils, reduce the flame and partly cover it. Let it simmer till well cooked, which will take about 10 to 15 minutes.

-          Remove from fire and add the seasoning.