Pickled Sweet Potato

 April 13, 2012

Pickled Sweet Potato

Potato recipes are available all over the world. Potato is a common food all over the world. There are various types of potatoes. Potato recipes are available in the world. On the contrary, pickle recipes are also famous in the world. Sweet potato is one of them. Potato contains carbohydrate. Besides, carbohydrate is very essential for human body. Pickled Sweet Potato is a very delicious food. It is found largely in India. The Indians like this food very much. The process of making Pickled Sweet Potato is as follows;

Ingredients:

1 Small purple sweet potato
* 4 / 5 Tender Green Chiles
* Lemons:  3 – 4
* Salt: 1 tea spoonful

* Spices: As necessary

Method of preparation:

·         At first peel the sweet potato and cut into strips or chips.

·         Wash and dry the purple potato very well. Halve and chop the sweet potato into 2 inch long strips.                    

·         Slit the lemon and squeeze it. Squeeze all the juice out of the lemons into a glass or ceramic jar.

·         Add sufficient salt to the lemon juice and stir to dissolve.

·          Soak the potato in lemon juice.

·         Now stir in chopped purple sweet potato and green chilies.

·         Remove stems and wash and dry the green chilies. Slit the green chilies and keep aside. Green chilies are also slit and added to lemon juice for spice.

·         Cover and let the sweet potato sit for a day or two to mature.

Make sure to choose tender green chilies for milder spice level and Make sure the jar is clean and dry for pickle to last longer.

Serve the pickled sweet potato as an accompaniment to dal, rice, yogurt rice etc. Pickled sweet potatoes can be eaten with rice mixed with some sort of dal or just with yogurt rice.