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Today I will post here how to make elephant foot yam fritters or kanda garelu. It is another traditional dish among my family circles. It is often served as a side dish with rice. It substitutes curry. But we can have it like a snack also. Today I made it as an evening snack to my kids, served it with tomato sauce.
I took the recipe from my mother's elder sister, doddamma. When I was very young she prepared this for me. I still remember that taste. Whenever I met her in any gathering, recollect those memories. We get very rarely this vegetable here in the local market. Whenever I get it,use some portion of it for making curry with bachali kura and some portion for stir fry it. And part of it I use it for making garelu.
These are made in two ways, one is soak toor dal and chana dal along with yam, grind it to a paste and make garelu. Another is instant variety, grind yam alone and add rice flour to it and all the spices to it and make garelu.
Today I am posting the first way of making it, as it is the most liked by one and all.
Elephant Foot Yam Fritters -- made with soaked chana dal, toor dal and red chillies
Ingredients:
- 1 Cup Chana Dal
- 1/2 Cup Toor Dal
- 1 Cup Kanda/Elephant Foot Yam/Suran
- 5 to 7 Red Chillies
- Salt to taste
- 1 Teaspoon Asafoetida
- 1 Teaspoon Turmeric Powder
- 1 Teaspoon Cumin Seeds
- Oil for Frying
Procedure:
- Soak dals, yam and red chillies for two to three hours.
- First grind dals and red chillies along with asafoetida and salt.
- Do not add water, if necessary add very little water. i.e. two to three tablespoons of it is enough.
- Make a smooth paste and keep it aside.
- In the same jar grind kanda or elephant foot yam or suran pieces coarsely.
- To this also do not add water.
- Mix this grounded kanda pieces to the above batter. Mix it well.
- Heat oil in a kadai. Take small lemon sized ball of the batter and flatten it with fingers or do it on any plastic sheet.
- Slowly drop it in the hot oil, do the same with the batter. Drop only as many fritters as we can fry at once.
- Fry them in the medium flame. Once they turn crispy and become golden brown take them on to the absorbtent paper or kitchen towel.
- Serve them with tomato sauce or traditionally they are served with hot piping rice.
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