Vegetable Made of Kand

Kand is a root vegetable like the yam, purple yam, potato, sweet potato. This is one of the yam family, white inside, not as sticky as the yam, does not soften too much on boiling too. The pieces chopped into fingers remain firm enough to be enjoyed in every bite. The recipe below is my own experi-mental one.

Ingredients
250 gms of yams, I took about three of them, peeled and chopped into fingers, boiled to a firm texture

2 onions chopped into long pieces, well separated
Some fresh coriander chopped
Salt to taste
Squeeze of a lime

For the gravy

1 onion  roughly chopped
1/2 cup fresh scraped coconut
1 tspn of poppy seeds
1/2 tspn of black pepper corns
2 green chillies, adjust the number since the other aromatics here also give enough pungency
1small piece of ginger
1 tspn of cumin seeds
1 tspn of coriander seeds
 Grind all these together to a smooth paste

Method

in a pan take some coconut oil, I use this to get a fresh nutty aroma in the dish. Once heated add the ground mixture, keep coking till it leaves the sides of the pan, add the boiled yam, stir to ix well, add the required quantity of water, mix well, let it cook for a while, now add the 2 onions that are chopped into thin long pieces, coriander and let it boil well together. Now add a dash of lime, very little, else the nutty taste would get killed. Mix and serve with any type of roti, puri, paratha or even bread tastes good. 

                                            
                                                                     This is the one I used