Sweet potato puff cake. A best sweet appetizer dish..

Sweet potato puff cake is an interesting sweet dish and a good appetizer. As potatoes usually have rich carbohydrates, sweet potato puff cake will be a great breakfast for your hungry weekend mornings. Go through the recipe of yummy tasty sweet potato puff cake and try it before your taste buds tickle your brain. Kids in your family will love to have it often for snacks or tiffin. It is a south indian dish that is prepare with Tamil Nadu style of ingredients and cooking procedures.

Sweet potato puff cake in pan

Ingredients required for making Sweet Potato Puff Cake

Sweet Potato (Cooked and crushed) - 1 cup

Maida (All Purpose) Flour - 1 cup

Wheat Flour - ¼ cup

Egg – 2 No. (Optional)

Mandavellam (Jaggery) – ¼ Cup

Milk - 1 cup

Cardamom – 2 No.

Soda Salt – a pinch

Salt – a pinch

Ghee - 3 tbsp

Sweet potato puff cake served

Step by step procedure for preparing Sweet Potato Puff Cake

First take a bowl and add Maida flour, wheat flour, soda salt and salt to it and blend everything evenly.

Now take a pan and put the jiggery into it. Add just 3 to 4 spoons of milk to it and let it to heat for a while.

As the jaggery heats, it will get melted. Once the jaggery melts filter it into the bowl containing mixture of flours.

With this you can add crushed sweet potatoes, cardamom and remaining milk.

If you wish to add egg with this dish, then separate yellow (yolk) of the egg and add with the above ingredients.

Now mix all these ingredients together to get a batter consistency.

You may doubt what to do with the whites of the egg. It is an important process in getting a soft and downy sweet potato puff cakes.

For that you have to pour the egg whites in a separate vessel and with the help of a whizzer, strike it continuously until you get pliable yielding.

Finally add this egg white to the batter and mix for some more time.

Now take a puff cake mould and put it on medium flame over the stove.

Add little ghee in all moulds and grease them thoroughly.

Then take a spoon of sweet potato puff cake batter and pour in the moulds.

Close the pan for a while and then flip the sweet potato puff cakes upside down.

Turn the flame to low while thesweet potato puff cakes cook on the second side. This will help in maintaining comfortable cooking temperature for the next set of sweet potato puff cakes.

Turn the sweet potato puff cake for checking whether it has got cooked.

Once the sweet potato puff cakes have got baked, take it out and store in a hot pack.

Finally you can serve it hot with either honey or jaggery puree as side dish.