Sweet Potato (Shakarkandi)
路上で愛されるスパイシーな石焼き芋！チャットマサラと出逢った甘い根菜
Description
Sweet potatoes same as in Japan. In India, rather than a curry ingredient, hugely popular as 'street food' charcoal-roasted on streets, flavored sour-spicily with spices and lemon.
Classification: For Everyone,Vegetable,Sweetness,Diet
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How to use
Ingredients
- Sweet potato
Instructions
- Bury sweet potatoes whole in stall charcoal ash (or oven), roast slowly until core is soft and fluffy.
- Peel, cut into bite-sized cubes, put in a bowl.
- Sprinkle Chaat Masala, chili powder, black salt, massive lemon juice, toss the bowl to mix, completing 'Shakarkandi Chaat' fusing sweetness and sour-spiciness.
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Key spices
Black salt、Chili powder
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
None
Pairing
Shakarkandi Chaat (Spicy sweet potato salad)
Trivia
[Trend] 'Shakarkandi' in Hindi. Japanese 'stone-roasted sweet potatoes' pursue sweetness, but India highlights the tuber's sweetness almost violently by clashing 'intense acidity, saltiness, and heat'. A culture shock so strong you can't return to Japanese salt-roasted sweet potatoes once eaten.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] On a cold winter night, pierce piping hot spiced roasted sweet potato served in a newspaper bowl with a toothpick, tasting the fluffy sweetness while choking on intense lemon acidity!
Allergen
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