from the BEARDO's kitchen Lotus Root Fry

 

Ingredients 

Today we are going to look at how to make the Lotus Root fry. It is one of the simplest dish to prepare, no fuss at all. Very rarely you will get local lotus root at the Jaya Grocer. Most of the time they have the one from China. So when I saw it today, I grabbed all 5 roots that was left, after all the local one taste better, and am not so confident of the other one.

Lets dive into the ingredient, as shown above, we have the lotus root, chopped into small cubes, pounded black pepper, finely chopped ginger, chopped onions and some tamarind.

Marination

Marinate the chopped lotus root with tumeric, chilly powder and salt for about an hour or so. Then place your pan on fire, fill it with oil, and allow it to heat. 

Heating the oil

As usual I am using coconut oil to prepare this dish. Please do not mind the beer glass on the left and the crab curry cooking on the right. Both goes very well with the lotus root fry. Chef Greeja took the honour to prepare the spicy Sri Lankan crab curry, which is the main meal today. Recipe you may ask, all in good time. 

Oops ..... the oil is already heated up, next transfer the marinated lotus root into the oil and allow it to cook.

Lotus root frying

Allow the lotus root to cook for a about 7-8minutes and then transfer the chopped ginger and stir. Allow the ginger to blend well with the lotus root. Wait till you get the aroma of ginger in the air.

 Ginger for the aroma

Then sprinkle chopped onions and stir well, make sure it blends evenly. Allow the onions to turn a little brown before you put some tamarind paste and mix it till till you get a nice golden brown colour. 

Chopped Onions 

Tamarind paste

Finally sprinkle some pounded pepper on the preparation. Pepper should be based on your preferred level of spiciness.

Pepper to go

Viola your lotus root fry is ready to eat, and as for me it is ready to go with the crab curry Chef Greeja made. By the way this dish would also be good with wraps, it will be a great filling. 

Lotus root fry

So folks, check it out and let me know, once you try it. As for me I just downed a pint, and anticipating the mouth watering crab curry with the crunchy lotus root fry.

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