Yam Fry or Sooran fry is an easy recipe where Yam is cleaned and pan fried along with everyday spices till it turns crispy and brown in colour. Perfect for weekday meals, serve it as a side dish or along with Tawa Parathas.
Apply oil on your palms and the knife. Remove the skin of the yam using a sharp knife.
Wash the peeled yam very well. Apply oil again on your palms and cut the yam into thin slices.
Bring some water in a pan to a boil. Add a lemon sized piece of tamarind in the water and 2 teaspoon salt and the yam slices.
Cook until yam are tender. Drain the water and run the yam under running water.
Mix all the other ingredients given under "for the marinade" in a bowl. Add little water and make a thick paste.
Apply the paste over the yam pieces and make sure that the yam pieces gets coated with the marinade properly.
Heat oil for frying in a pan. Arrange the yam slices on the pan and fry until browned from both the sides.
Garnish with fresh coriander and serve hot.
Notes
Once the yam is ready to cook, you can cook it anyway like potatoes.Cleaning and preparing Yam for your recipes can be an elaborate process. So let me tell you how you can clean it.
Yam peel and flesh have fine calcium oxalate crystals (raphides) and saponins and we need to neutralize these before cooking otherwise you will have itching in your throat after eating yam.
When these crystals come in contact with skin, they cause an allergic reaction and you may have itching and redness of the skin. So make sure to take good care while cleaning and cooking yam.
Firstly, apply oil nicely on your palms and the knife. Now wash the yam well to get rid of the mud sticking to it. Run it under cold water and scrub using a brush.
Now remove the thick skin of yam using a sharp knife. After removing the skin, wash the peeled yam very well once again. Apply oil again on your palms and cut the yam into thin slices. Your Yam is ready to use.