Sweet potatoes are versatile and can be prepared in both sweet and savory dishes, making them an exceptional carb option for most people. This is a kid-friendly snack and can be whipped up in 20 mins.
There is a lot of health benefits in eating sweet potato.
- Sweet potatoes are starchy root vegetables that are rich in fiber, vitamins, and minerals. They’re also high in antioxidants that protect your body from free radical damage and chronic disease.
- Sweet potatoes contain fiber and antioxidants that promote the growth of good gut bacteria and contribute to a healthy gut.
- Antioxidants found in sweet potatoes may protect against certain cancers.
- Sweet potatoes are rich in beta-carotene and anthocyanins, antioxidants that may help prevent vision loss and improve eye health.
- Sweet potatoes are an excellent source of beta-carotene, which can be converted to vitamin A and help support your immune system. (* as per healthline.com)
You can boil sweet potato or roast sweet potato and consume it as such. You may also convert the boiled sweet potato into a variety of snacks or sweets. I have already posted Sweet Potato spring onion paratha. Today we are making a simple evening snack that is loved by all. If you skip onion, then you can have it as Prashad for Navratri. Now let us see how to prepare this recipe.
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- 1 Sweet Potato/Sarkaraivalli Kizhangu medium size
- 1/2 Onion finely chopped
- 2 tbsp Rice flour
- 2 tbsp Bengal gram flour/Kadalai Maavu/Besan
- 1/2 tsp Chili powder
- 1/2 tsp Garam Masala Powder
- 1 tsp Roasted Cumin Powder
- 1/2 tsp Mango powder
- 1 Green chili finely chopped
- 1 Coriander Leaves/Kothamalli finely chopped
- salt to taste
- 2 tbsp oil
- Finely chop the onion, green chilies, coriander leaves and set aside. Boil sweet potato and drain the water completely. Peel the skin from sweet potato.
- In a wide bowl add boiled sweet potatoes and mash it. Along with mashed sweet potato add all other ingredients except oil and mix thoroughly.
- Now take a hand full of mixed sweet potato and make it into a ball shape and pat it gently to form a cutlet as shown. Make cutlets with the remaining potato mixture.
- In a tawa add a tbsp of oil and heat it. Once the oil gets heated, place the cutlet one by one.
- Cook on the medium-low flame on both sides, till both the sides are cooked well and turn to a golden brown and crispy as shown. Transfer to a plate and serve hot.
- If you don't like onion you can skip it.
- You can even add a small piece of grated ginger to the mix.
- You can even add mashed peas, or you can add any vegetables of your choice and make cutlet.
- You can even stuff patty with your choice like peas stuffing, paneer stuffing.
- Instead of rice flour and Bengal gram powder as a binding agent, you can also make use of breadcrumbs, all-purpose flour, arrowroot powder or even you can add a piece of bread too.
- I have tawa fried the cutlet, you can even shallow fry or deep fry it too.
Delicious Sweet Potato Cutlet is ready to relish.
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