Sweet potato beignets

Sweet potato beignets: This is a dish that I thought of when there some leftover sweet potato shreds. It is a very easy and delicious snack. Refer to the recipe of Sweet potato shreds given earlier.


Serves: 2 to 4

Ingredients:

- 2 medium sized boiled potatoes(peeled)
- 1 cup of Sweet potato shreds (refer to the recipe posted earlier in this blog)
- 1 tbsp of corn flour
- salt
- 1/2 tsp of red chilli powder
- Oil for frying

Preparation:

- Start with putting oil in a pan and heating it on the burner at medium level. The oil is to be used for deep frying.
- Take the potato shreds in a bowl and mash them with your hands.
- In a dish grate the boiled potatoes. Put salt, red chilli powder and corn flour and mix properly. Bring it all together to so that it has the consistency of dough.
- Make small balls of the potato dough.
- Take one ball of the dough and gently make a hollow cup of it (size it appropriately enough to put the stuffing).
- In the potato cup put the stuffing and gently seal it from all sides into a ball.
- Similarly stuff the other potato cups as well.
- Once the oil in the pan is hot, deep fry the potato stuffed pockets (beignets) till they are crisp and golden brown.
- Remove the beignets on a tissue paper to drain the excess oil.

- Put them in a serving dish and serve with green chutney and/or ketchup.