Konphal kaap |Purple yam chips

Purple yam  also known as konphal in marathi & ratalu in gujarati is a tuber easily found in india. 

Today I  am posting about konphal kaap /purple yam slices which is a marathi dish.



Purple Yam is an earthly, healthy and delicious food. Our family favors this vegetable for its unique and interesting texture and its beautiful color. Purple yams are tubers with grayish brown skins and purple flesh. They taste sweet and a variety of a true yam, which is known as "ube" or "ubi" in the Philippines. It has rough textured, dark colored skin and a light purple colored flesh. Purple yam is very gnarled looking in appearance and grows on a vine rather than underground. 

This has purple colored flesh but it has a light colored skin and is shaped like other varieties of yam.



Earlier i have posted vangyache kaap (brinjal slices) recipe,suran (yam) kaap recipe

Similarly potato slices (batatyache kaap can be prepared)

Purple yam can be used  in the form of stir fries, in curry dishes and also as chips.
Its a good side veggie dish with a dal rice combo or  can serve as healthy evening snack.



Ingredients
250 gms purple yam (konphal/ratalu), peeled, washed and sliced.
2 tsp red chili powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 or 2 tbsp lemon juice  / tamarind juice
1 cup semolina/rava/sooji
2 tsp rice flour (tandulacha peeth)
salt as required
oil for frying

Method:

1.Remove skin of purple yam and slice it into large pieces.Keep the pieces in water & then drain to remove water.


2.Now rub slices with lemon juice /tamarind juice on both sides .This is an important step. Yam has some juices which are irritant in nature these need to be neutralized before consumption. A good way to remove any natural irritant is by using tamarind juice in the preparation. Hence follow this step without fail. Sprinkle salt on yam pieces & apply tamarind juice uniformly to coat the yam slices.


3.Rub the yam with the turmeric & red chilli powder ,mix well to coat the yam slices uniformly with spices .




4.Marinate the yam slices for 20-30 minutes. 



5.Mix rava with rice flour & 1 tsp salt & keep aside.Place the yam slices in rava mixture & press with fingers so that rava gets coated on yam slice.turn & coat the back side of the yam slice in rava rice flour mixture . Pat excess rava.



 



6.Shallow fry the yam slices in oil on a flat pan or tava. Turn the slices so that remaining side also gets cooked to golden brown colour.




7 Drain on kitchen tissues and serve hot as a side dish  or with green chutney .


Tips :
Marinated yam slices can also be baked instead of frying .
Use only rice flour for coating skip rava