Senai kizhangu chips | Easy recipes with elephant yam

Senai kizhangu chips is a very very simple recipe and turns out great taste-wise. Learn how to cook without itchiness in it.

Senai kizhangu is one veggie that I buy rarely as Vj never wants me to buy. He is afraid always about the itchy nature of it.

But senior folks at home say that if we buy and keep for several days, the itchy nature gets reduced.

Also if made at right way, it can be made as a delicious side dish. And as far as this recipe is concerned I had no idea about it or heard about it.

Related links

• Elephant yam curry
• Karunai kizhangu masiyal
• Yam kuzhambu

But MIL told when we saw elephant yam at Mustafa and I wanted to try it really soon.

I made this last week and wanted to post as last Thursday’s post, but time flies for me as I am enjoying my days with the whole family here in SG.

We even went for a short trip to Langkawi, Malaysia for 3 days. So still busy and having fun with my in-laws and co-sisters all together.

But sure will meet you all tomorrow with a sweet post for the New year’s first post 🙂.

And this is a very very simple recipe and turns out great taste-wise. This is the whole family’s favorite here.

Me and Aj tasting for first time and loved it too. Best way when you want to use the big elephant yam in single use.

Check out Yam fry recipe over tawa too. This kizhangu is also called Kaara karnai (Elephant Yam)

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Senai kizhangu chips recipe

Senai kizhangu chips is a very very simple recipe and turns out great taste-wise. Learn how to cook without itchiness in it.

Course Side Dish, Snack

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 25 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Servings 2 cups

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Ingredients

• ½ Elephant yam Senai kizhangu
• 1 tablespoon Tamarind Big gooseberry size
• 2 teaspoon Sambar powder
• Salt
• Oil - For deep frying

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Instructions

• Peel off the skin of the yam and cut into big chunks firstly.
• Wash and keep immersed in water. Then chop the yam uniformly into sticks.
• To do this, firstly slice it into thin squares/ rectangles and then stack the slices and chop them to sticks as shown in the picture.
• Soak tamarind in hot water for 30 mins and extract a thick pulp from it.
• Mix the tamarind pulp, sambar powder, salt with the yam sticks and keep aside for 20 mins. You can add little turmeric as well if you want.
• After 20 mins, it would have left more water within.
• Heat oil and when oil is hot, squeeze out the excess water and sprinkle the yam in hot oil.
• Cook in medium flame with constant stirring and never leave it unattended as it gets easily browned towards end.
• Also keep turning while cooking now and then ensures even cooking.
• Drain from oil when the ‘Shhh…’ sound completely ceases and turns crispy. Drain over paper towel finally.

Notes

• Make sure you extract thick pulp from tamarind. Do not let it be watery.
• Also tamarind should be more, then only the itchy effect will not be there.
• You can make this fully crispy or crisp out and slightly soft from inside.
• Make sure the yam is chopped thin and equal sized, otherwise cooking time will vary accordingly.
• Takes some time to get cooked well.

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1. Peel off the skin of the yam firstly and cut into big chunks first.

After that wash and keep immersed in water.

Then chop the yam uniformly into sticks.

To julienne cut, first slice it into thin squares/ rectangles and then stack the slices, chop them to sticks as shown in the picture.

2. Soak tamarind in hot water for 30 mins and extract a thick pulp from it. Mix the tamarind pulp, sambar powder, salt with the yam sticks and keep aside for 20 mins.

3. After 20 mins, it would have left more water within.

Heat oil and when oil is hot, squeeze out the excess water and sprinkle the yam in hot oil. And that’s my MIL in action.

4. Cook in medium flame with constant stirring and never leave it unattended as it gets easily browned towards end.

Also turning while cooking now and then ensures even cooking.

Drain from oil when the ‘Shhh…’ sound completely ceases and turns crispy. Drain over paper towel.

Can go best with sambar rice and Vj just loves to eat as such. Even I like it as such.