This side dish is made with Senai (Yam) by frying in a skillet and can be served as a side for rice. You can also try the Pavakkai Tawa Fry and okra tawa fry.
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Okra tawa fry
Difficulty: EasyThis skillet (tawa) fried side dish is made with okra, lemon juice and other Indian spices. This goes well with hot rice along with sambar.
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Senai (Yam) Tawa Fry
6
servings5
minutes20
minutesThis side dish is made with Senai (Yam) by frying in a skillet and can be served as a side for rice.
Ingredients
Senai (Yam) – 1 big piece
Sambar Powder – 2 teaspoons
Red chilli powder – 1 teaspoon
Turmeric powder – 1/4 teaspoon
Rice flour – 2 teaspoons
Asafoetida Powder – two pinches
Thick Tamarind juice – 1 or 2 teaspoons
Curry Leaves – few
Salt – 1 teaspoon or as per taste
Oil – 3 to 4 tablespoons
Directions
- Wash well and remove the skin from Yam. Slice it into 3 to 4 inch thin square pieces.
- Put it into boiling water along with little turmeric powder and salt and allow to cook for few minutes. When it is 3/4th cooked, immediately remove from water and place it in a plate. Make sure it should not be overcooked, otherwise when you fry, it will break and become mushy.
- In a plate put sambar powder, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, rice flour, asafoetida, salt and tamarind juice. Mix well and make a paste if necessary adding little water. To this gently place the cooked yam pieces and coat it with the paste.
- Heat a skillet (preferably a heavy “Dosai Kal”) and add the oil.
- Take the masala coated yam pieces and arrange it on the tawa in single layer.
- Put some curry leaves on top of it.
- Allow to cook on medium flame for few seconds. Turn each piece separately and cook other side also. Then again turn it and cook.
- Repeat this till both the sides are fried well and it become golden brown.
- Goes well with Sambar/Rasam Sadam.
Recipe Video
Notes
- You can fry these without boiling also. In that case it will take more time for cooking. Also you can add little garam masala in the paste if you like.
Senai varuval looks superb, very nice.
Yam fry is one of my favorite, i tried this week end, came out well, i have added lemon juice instead of tamarind and some ground coconut .
It was yummy,
Thank you Prabha for sharing your method of preparation.
Good recipe
Hi Kamala,
I tried this recipe and it was a super duper hit. We added a bit of rice flour for crunchiness. The idea of adding tamarind juice was awesome. I love almost all your recipes. Plus your pics are awesome and tempt me to cook. Thanks for sharing your talent with us.
Subha
Thank you Subha for your kind feed back. Adding rice flour is a good idea.