Sakariya nu Shaak
Nupur’s event A-Z of vegetables is about cooking with vegetables from each alphabet every week. So far, from all the recipes that I have sent her with the alphabets for that week, none depict the vegetables from that alphabet, mostly its to do with the type of cooking. 
I started with K for Khichdi and Kadhi - Neither of them being vegetables! 
Then it was M for Missi Roti - not even a hint of vegetables in it!
I broke all rules with O for Original Muthias!!!!
Then it was P for Pid-za!
Q for three quick recipes !
For T, I added Tropical before my coconut sorbet and made it Tropical coconut sorbet!
I was waiting for Y to come when I can send her Y is for Yam - saving my face for once at least!
Something didn’t seem correct and I googled for Japanese Yams which I use but to my surprise they were nothing close to what I was using!
I was actually using Japanese Sweet Potato as Japanese Yam as I have always seen them being sold as Yams over here!
There is a huge difference between them both and I was not the only one with this misconception.
In “gujrati” we call this tuber as “ratalu” which is the purple variety or “sakariya” which is the white one.
Its something to feast on while fasting but great to enjoy otherwise as well!
You need:
- 2-3 Sweet Potatoes, diced
- 1 cup crushed peanuts
- 1 cup yogurt
- 1 inch piece of ginger grated
- 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
- salt to taste
- 1 tsp sugar (optional)
- 1 tbs oil
- 1/4 tsp hing
- 1 tsp jeera/ cumin seeds
- 4-5 curry leaves
- 1-2 slit green chilies
- coriander to garnish
Heat 1 tbs of oil and brown the jeera.
Add curry leaves, slit green chilies and 1/2 tsp hing to it.
Now throw in the crushed peanuts and cook for about 5 mins till they roast.
Add the diced sweet potatoes, salt to taste and garam masala. Cook for about 5-10 mins till the potatoes soften a bit.
Now add the yogurt and cook for a few mins till it all blends together.
If you like the curry version of it, increase the quantity of yogurt and add about 1/4 glass of water and cook till you get a good boil.
If you prefer a dry side dish, cook till all the yogurt gets absorbed.
Add one tsp of sugar (optional) and garnish with coriander.
Serve with any breads. When people have this during fasting, they either eat it all by itself or with moraiyo. But I am not fasting and neither have I ever. So I enjoy this with my chapatti. 
If you have been following my blog regularly, you will know how much I hate rolling the breads. So chapattis are also not a regular at home. But when I make them, I will usually make a few extra for a making rotli no ladvo - a sweet dish which I so love and its my reward for cooking chapatti that day. 
All you have to do it break the chapatti into small pieces by hand. Add jaggery as per the sweetness you desire and enough ghee to make a lump.
For about 4-5 chapattis you need 1-2 tsp ghee.
Either throw it all in the food processor and churn them into a lump or work your arm muscles to mix and blend it all well to form a lump or ladoo.
So this is not my entry and I am surely not sending to Nupur. I don’t know any vegetable from Z, so if I have to save my face I will have to invent discover a zotato or zady zinger or may be a zabbage!!! 
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hi ,
feels great to be the first one to comment…have visited your lovely blog several times..great stuff…this sweet potato dish is quite similar to the one maharashtrians prepare for fasts too excepting the yoghurt part..chapati ladoo is very innovative…hats off to u gal for regular updates inspite of hectic life @ RP ( can imagine u wondering ‘yeh kaun hai bhai ???? relax u donno me ….)
rgds
anita
coffee …you simply rock….
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Lovely intro! great recipe. I am not a fan of sweet potato, but your recipe makes it look tempting, so I may even try it!
Hey, nice pix. Your preserves pix looked good too!
What a great gujarati curry………you are master my dear.
Yam chips are my only favourite in Yam dishes. This looks very different. Your shortlisting of A-Z vegetables is interesting
A lovely recipe coffee….. and great pics too!!!
Both these recipes remind me of my childhood! Unfortunately I do not cook them here…I should..anyway the chapati ladoo used to be our snack for the short recess in school! Thanks for sharing Coffee!
This sabzi would taste nice with moraiyo. I don’t fast yet I make fasting food just becoz we like it , for a change
:oops: Even we make roti ladoo 
Nice entry Coffee.
I liked those smileys in your post :mrgreen:
love that rotli na ladu, 1-2 tsp ghee mara matey ochu che, hu 2-3tbsp nakhu chu :razz: :razz:
sakariya nu shaak looks yum, ratalu being my fav
wow the laddu!! never heard of that!
<p>LOL coffee…i am glad that at last u did find some vegetables to cook and send it to nupur :twisted:
:wink:</p>
Wow such splendid dishes and love that “rotti no ladvo”.
So which one is the entry, it could be “yo rotti no ladvo” and then you could maintain your track record
yes, its always quite interesting to see the names for A-Z
zotato ??? u re funny :))) Btw, why no new posts on your canvas? I want to see atleast one new painting there 
Shn
Looks amazing and great entry. Thanks for sharing.
ok…now i read the post… :oops: u caught me redhanded
Coffee, mera bhi yahi haal hai…..making do with sakarkand (which is sold as yam)…..but hey, it is called yam, and so we are good to go
The shaak looks delish
the ladoo looks YUMM too 
its for me, right ;0
you are incorrigible, zoffee…. er coffee. btw, can you disable the e-mail mandatory thingie here? we’re the kind wordpress folks, y’know?
unlike ‘those’ people. :twisted:
Hi there
I love your blog, although it is the first time I’m commenting. you ahve a really intersting writing style.. and zucchini starts with a Z…..
Hi coffee!
very sorry for the previous comment! my daughter unexpectedly pressed enter button! any way! nice recipes!!!! hey those names are cool!!!! i like zotato though!
Lady,I am trying to get in your blog since morning and then gave up for few hrs, came back again. Now I get in to see 21 comments before me. I think it’s bcos of the heavy ghost readers traffic!!! It says loading takes too long and goes off!!
Loved all your A to Z entries.She says it’s okay if you use name of the dish,or else we can’t come up with most A to Z vegs at all.
Z is not hard at all. Watch out for Aroma dish on Monday,you will get an idea! ;D
One more I can think of is Zamikand which is Suran I think.Or you can zonk out on some Zotato dish!!hahaha!!
Love the shaak, laddu sounds interesting made of chapatis!! Cool!!:)
Hi Coffee..just wanted to say “HI” :twisted:
Chapati laddu? Now that’s kinda new. I am used to eating chapatis rolled up with a lil ghee smeared and sprinkled with some sugar. Jaggery sure sounds like a better choice!
Coffee….
i love both of them, especiallly rotli no ladvo…bahu divas thaya banavye… mein gaikale moti agyaras mate galya sakkariya banavya hata- ame eno chevdo bi banaviye che… great post…
Haha! Zotato
That’s in the same league as my !Xomato 
Thanks for the recipe…I will make bateta this way for lunch now
great post! Will try out your dish next time I get yam….er Sweet potato
We also make Rotli no ladvo, but call it ‘Policha ladu’ …it is such a treat !
Very interesting recipe. I’m still trying to find yam where I live.
Thats 13 smileys coffee… Not fair to tease us, bloggers
rotli no ladvo sauthi vadhare gamyo…shakkariya to mara galey jaray na utre! :mrgreen:
wow chappati laddu thats a great way for kids sure:) so last found the vege he he . the curry looks very good with sweet potato gotto to try this way
Lovely coffee, very interesting recipes. Viji
This whole yam vs sweet potato thing has me confused as well!! lol!
But this looks positively delicious. I suspect that the Japanese Sweet Potato is probably pretty close to the sweet potato we get here in Jamaica. The Japanese yam also looks somewhat like some variet of our local yam as well. I’m thinking that this recipe might be good with both the sweet potato and with our yam, so I shall be trying it with both! :razz:
Nice one coffee!!! YAY for YAMS!!!
I have never tried it with yogurt and garam masala combo…. :idea:
Zotaot!! LOL!!!!!
Love the Roti ka ladoo! i make it by melting jaggery, and sometimes add khus khus. Mmmmmm!!!
Coffee, after reading this post, I just want to say… :twisted: :???:
:roll: 
I love ya! Only you could make me crack up laughing on the day I was crying my eyes out — my baby son’s 19th bday! Thanks and oh, btw… yams look DELISH, Japanese or anyese
Hey those laddoos are great! And I’ll use the processor!!
The preserves post was great too! see you with the next post!!
Wow, Coffee u rock.
with a language and cooking abilities to the extreme. You just gave me the best time. I had looked around enough for the ratalu recipe which my husband kept insisting there was…
Also the Rotli no laadvo ? well, it was also served to the gods but in different ways (churma ? ) start a jhiva on that and lets see Nupur throw you out ? (she won’t. She’s equally as sweet as you are !!)
Bless you.
wow, great sweet potato curry ! the ladoo looks similar to the choorma ka ladoo that my mum used to make from leftover rotis by putting the ingredients in a food processor and then making ladoos out if it !
Laddoos with Rotis is really innovative… and it looks good.
I’ve never really cooked with Sweet Potatoes - must try your recipe sometime.
hi coffee,
Nice curry .thanks for sharing this recipe.
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