Surna Kismuri- fried yam salad with coconut

Surna kismuri

This is a amchigele/Konkani salad made of fried yam pieces which tastes excellent on its own or when served with hot rice and daalitoy/dal

INGREDIENTS:-

Ingredients:

250 grams yam

Onion: 1 (big)

Coconut: 4tbsp

Green chillies: 1

Lemon juice – ½ tsp

Coconut oil 1 tsp

Coriander leaves chopped – 1 tbsp

Method:

Preparing the Yam

Peel the yam and chop the yam into small dices. The pieces of yam shrink on frying, so make sure you don’t cut tiny dices. Keep the dices a little big.

After chopping the yam, wash the yam dices. *check notes

Drain all the water and apply enough salt to the yam and allow it to marinate.

Frying the yam:

Heat a frying pan, add coconut oil(preferably), Squeeze the yam pieces very well and add these pieces into it and fry them on medium heat.

Do not panic while adding yam in the oil it bubbles and that is normal.

Keep stirring it in intervals.

When the bubbles almost drop down keep an eye on the yam fritters as we don’t want them to burn.

While the yam has almost puffed up and is crisp remove it on a tissue paper/kitchen towel and allow it cool completely for an hour or 2.

Method:

1. Chop the onions and green chillies finely.

2. Mix the coconut, green chillies, onions lemon juice coriander leaves and salt in a bowl.

3. Add in the fried surnu and mix just before serving.

Serve with hot dal and rice.

Aps Notes:

While cutting or washing the yam sometimes they itch so you can apply lime on your hands before and after cutting and washing them.We can even bake the Salted and Squeezed yam at 180 deg  for 10-15 minutes or till crisp(make sure you drizzle some coconut oil), I have tried it this way too.

You can just blitz the coconut and green chilli for a second in blender also. This is another way of kismuri.

 Happy Cooking,

Aps 


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