Yummy Indian Sweet Potato Cakes

Yummy Indian Sweet Potato Cakes

The other night we had some Indian guests come over, they have recently arrived from India and are staying for a couple of months with their kids that live here in Australia. I was racking my brains trying to think of some appetising snacks that I could put out for them to enjoy. Unfortunately we only had limited time to prepare, so I wasn’t able to prepare anything that was too spectacular, however next time I will be more than prepared as I have found this very simple yummy Indian sweet potato recipe.

They are so easy to make and most of the ingredients are already in the pantry, so it’s just a matter of cooking the potato and mixing in a few spices. Celebrity UK Indian chef Rezza Mahammad has demonstrated in the You Tube video below, just how quick and easy it is to make these vegetarian potato cakes.

Below this video you will find the list of ingredients and directions on how to make these yummy snacks.

Ingredients

• Cooking oil for fry pan
• 1 x teaspoon of cumin seeds
• 1 x teaspoon of fennel seeds
• Ginger and garlic paste
• 1 x whole red chili
• 1 x cup of shredded spinach
• 400g of white potato
• 200g of sweet potato
• 200g Paneer
• 1 x tablespoon of chopped coriander
• Plain flour for dusting cakes

Directions

1. Peel and chop both potato’s.
2. In two separate sauce pans, cook both potato’s until soft. Drain extremely well to remove excess moisture.
3. Place oil in a heated fry pan.
4. Add 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds, 1 x teaspoon of fennel seeds, ginger and garlic paste, 1 whole red chili, stir together of heat.
5. Add the cup of spinach and stir in, cook until spinach begins to wilt.
6. In a bowl, combine both the white potato and the sweet potato, mix well together.
7. Add the spinach mixture in with the potato’s and mix well until combined.
8. Cover with cling wrap and allow potato mixture to cool in the fridge for one hour.
9. Remove mixture from the fridge and crumble the 200 grams of paneer over the potato and spinach mixture.
10. To finish off the mixture add 1 tablespoon of chopped coriander, mix and fold the coriander through the mixture.
11. To make the cakes, take a heaped tablespoon of mixture in your hands and form a ball by rolling your hands together. Slightly flatten the ball in the middle and on the sides with your fingers, to make the potato cake shape.
12. Gently dust cakes in the plain flour to give them a coating before frying.
13. Add cooking oil to a heated fry pan, then shallow fry potato cakes until golden brown on both sides. Drain on some paper towel.
14. Serve hot with dipping sauce.

Enjoy!!!!

I hope you will give these yummy Indian sweet potato cakes a try, they are so easy to make. They look and taste absolutely delicious. Let me know how you went!

Nicky Singh.