Colocaesia Macial

Ingredients

• • Colocaesia/Yam/Seppankilangu - ½ kg
• • Tamarind extract (thick) - 2 tablespoons
• • Green chillies - 7
• • Ginger - 1 inch piece
• • Salt - as required
• • Coconut (grated, fresh) - 1 ½ tablespoons
• • Coconut oil (for frying) - as required

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Ingredients For Seasoning

• • Oil - 1 tablespoon
• • Mustard seeds - ½ teaspoon
• • Urad dal - 1 teaspoon
• • Bengal gram dal - 1 teaspoon

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Method

• 1. Pressure cook yam and remove outer skin. (Do not over cook)
• 2. Slice ginger and chillies into fine pieces.
• 3. Mash the cooked yam coarsely.
• 4. Heat oil in a frying pan, add seasonings, chillies and ginger.
• 5. Fry for a minute and add mashed yam, tamarind extract, salt and stir fry for 5 to 10 minutes.
• 6. Fry coconut in coconut oil till golden yellow and add to macial just before removing from fire.

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Note - Variations

• • Omit tamarind extract. Squeeze lemon after removing from fire.
• • Instead of colocaesia use malabhar yam and prepare macial in the above method.
• • Grind chillies and ginger to fine paste and then fry with seasonings.