Sweet potato has been one of my recent favorites. I have been using this vegetable in a lot of dishes that require potatoes, and my family absolutely loves it. This spiced sweet potato curry with coconut is a variation of the regular sweet potato curry
When I made my curry with sweet potatoes (the first version), my very good friend Janhavi gave me another version of the sweet potato curry recipe. She told me that this is one of her favorite recipes with sweet potatoes and asked me to try it.
I have made this recipe for Sweet Potato Curry with ground spices and coconut, a few times ever since and we really like it.
This curry tastes really good with rice or with rotis. It is very simple to make and tastes yummy. The mild sweetness of the potatoes with the garlic and heat works really well. Also, this works great as a sandwich filling.
Preparation time – 10 mins
Cooking time – 20 mins
Difficulty level – easy
Ingredients to make Spiced Sweet Potato Curry With Coconut – (serves 4)
- Sweet potatoes – 4
- Shallot or onion – 1
- Garlic – 2 cloves
- Red chilies – ⅔ (depending on how spicy you like it)
- Curry leaves – a handful
- Coconut (grated) – ¼ cup
- Oil – 1 tbsp
- Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
- Asafetida – ¼ tsp
- Salt – to taste
Procedure –
- Clean the sweet potatoes, peel them, and cut them into small cubes.
- In a pan, heat oil and add the mustard seeds, asafoetida, and a few curry leaves. Once the seeds sputter, add the chopped sweet potatoes and salt. Cook covered until the vegetable is half cooked
- Meanwhile, grind the onion, garlic, red chilies, and the remaining curry leaves to a coarse paste.
- Add this to the cooked vegetable and mix well until combined. Take care not to mash the potatoes.
- Cook it for a few more minutes until everything is combined well and the potatoes are cooked through.
- Serve with rice or roti or as a sandwich.
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Recipe
Spiced Sweet Potato Curry With Coconut
Equipment
- pan
- plate
- Cooking Pot
Ingredients
- 4 Sweet potatoes
- 1 Shallot or onion
- 2 cloves Garlic
- ⅔ Red chilies depending on how spicy you like it
- Curry leaves a handful
- ¼ cup Coconut grated
- 1 tablespoon Oil
- 1 teaspoon Mustard seeds
- ¼ teaspoon Asafetida
- to taste Salt
Instructions
- Clean the sweet potatoes, peel them and cut them into small cubes.
- In a pan, heat oil and add the mustard seeds, asafetida and few curry leaves. Once the seeds sputter, add the chopped sweet potatoes and salt. Cook covered until the vegetable is half cooked
- Meanwhile, grind the onion, garlic, red chilies, and the remaining curry leaves to a coarse paste.
- Add this to the cooked vegetable and mix well until combined. Take care not to mush the potatoes.
- Cook it for few more minutes until everything is combined well and the potatoes are cooked through.
- Serve with rice or roti’s or as a sandwich.
radha says
Do you not get the raw taste of onion? Have sweet potato readily available. Wondering whether to try this or your first version. What do you suggest?
shasan18 says
Hi Radha, We do fry it for few minutes after we add the masala, so the onion smell is not very dominating and on top of it we use a very small onion or shallot if available. We like both the versions equally, but if not in a mood for masala flavors, would go for the first version.
Saraswathi Tharagaram says
Look so inviting sandhya. Very simple and delicious potato recipe.
Priya says
An excellent side dish for curd rice, we do a simple curry but yours sounds super flavourful.
Kitchen Queen says
nice use of sweet potatoes.
Ramya Krishnamurthy says
yummy and fingerlicking one:)
Priya R says
Never made a stir fry with sweet potato, looks yum... 🙂
Sangeetha Priya says
wow unique yummy stir fry dear, will try for sure
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Rohini says
looks awesome Sandya..Going to try it tonight..
Nivedhanams Sowmya says
so delicious and so healthy!!! such a perfect homey dish!!!!
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shasan18 says
Thanks Sowmya!
Manjula Bharath says
wow yummy curry 🙂
shasan18 says
Thanks Manjula!
Suja Manoj says
I too love to spice up sweet potato,looks yum
shasan18 says
Thanks Suja!