Sweet Potato Halwa...

I am here again with a sweet dish after a long break..

Ingredients: Sweet Potatoes (boiled, skinned and mashed) : 1 cup
Cardamom powder : 1 pinch
Sugar: 2 heaped tablespoons
Pure Ghee or butter: 2 tablespoons

Method: Wash and boiled the sweet potatoes. Skin and mash with your hand or potato smasher well to make a smooth paste. On a slow fire put 2 tablespoon ghee in a thick bottomed pan and when hot put the sweet potato mix in it. Stir constantly until the colour changes and the ghee starts to separate from the mixture. Now add sugar and mix well. Cook on a slow fire, stirring, till the sugar is mixed properly and ghee separating again. Remove from fire and add the cardamom powder. See my other dish with Sweet Potato.

A sweet dish made out of Sweet Potato

This is from my mother's recipe book.

Ingredients
Sweet potatoes: 500 gms, potato: 1 large, flour: 4 tablespoon, sugar: 500 gm, white oil or ghee: for frying.
For stuffing
coconut: 1 small pc. and 250 gm sugar.

Method: First grate the coconut. Mix it with sugar and microwave (put on flame in a thick bottomed pan) it in 100 percent power for 2-3 miniute while stirring occassionaly. The coconut mixture should be ready within this time, if not, try for some more time. The sugar should be desolved and mix thoroughly with the coconut the mixture should be sticky.

Now boil the sweet potato along with the potato. When it becomes cool, peel it and mix it with your hand smoothly. Take a small amount of mixture with your hand at a time, make a small ball. Make a small hole into this ball, put some coconut mixture into it, cover the hole and then shape it into a small oval piece, shaped like a side pillow. Make sufficient quantity of pieces with this mixture.

Heat ghee/oil and fry these shapes till golden brown. Meanwhile make a syrup with the help of 500 gm sugar and 3 cups of water by boiling these two on flame. When the syrup is ready keep aside.

Now put the fried pieces into this syrup and soak into it for 2-3 hours. Serve when soft and cool.