Sweet potato Pulusu

 Pulusu is one of the South-Indian main dishes that tastes very well with the rice .This can be made with lot of variations like brinjal , ladies finer , drumsticks , ivy gourd and many as well . This is one of those which gives the tangy and little sweet taste and when these both combined with onions , aroma of spices and flavors of coriander  makes the dish more delightful .

Ingredients:

• Sweet potato : 1(cut into circles)
• Tamarind : lemon sized ball
• Onions : 2 (cut length -wise)
• Tomato : 1
• Green chillies : 2-3
• Mustard : 1 tspn
• Cumin : 1 tspn
• Urad dal ; 1 tblspn
• Curry leaves : 6-7
• Salt : as required
• Jaggery ; 1 tspn
• Oil : 1 tblspn
• Asefoetida (Inguva) : pinch 
• Turmeric : pinch

Making Pulusu Powder:

•  Dried red chillies : 3
• Chana dal : 1 tblspn
• Urad dal : 1 tblspn
• Dhania ( coriander seeds) : 1/4 tblspn
• Roasted gram : 3 tblspn
• Oil : 1/2  tblspn

Fry all the spices in oil till their color changed to light golden brown ,cool it and grind to a fine powder .Can store it in a air-tight container for further use also.

Procedure 1:

1. Soak the tamarind and extract two cups of  tamarind juice from it.
2. Heat oil in a pressure cooker , add mustard , cumin ,urad dal , asefoetida ,turmeric , onions ,tomato ,green chillies (split into half) , and fry for one minute.
3. Add sweet potato , tamarind juice and pressure cook for one whistle.
4. Add  2-3 tblspns of pulusu powder  to a little water to make a fine paste.Add this paste to the tamarind juice (pulusu). Stir well.
5. Add salt , jaggery , curry leaves to tamarind juice , mix well and cook for 5 more minutes.Ganish with coriander leaves.
6. Serve hot with rice.

Procedure 2:

1. Saute the onions , tomatoes , green chillies , turmeric in a pan tampered with the spices.
2. Then add the tamarind juice to it ,bring it to boil .
3. Add boiled sweet potato ,  salt ,curry leaves , pulusu powder same as in  the above procedure ,jaggery cook for 5 more minutes and garnish with coriander leaves.