Sweet potato sheera

This was done in 20 minutes even with some distractions. Inspired by a traditional dish my grandmother made which uses the same ingredients. But the potatoes are sliced in somewhat thick round slices. Adding jaggery in the end as in this recipe it forms a coating on the sweet potato which gives a thin crusty texture to the slices on the outside. We get this red sweet potato around here called as ratalu or ratale.

This type cooks pretty quickly. The usual potato will need to be steamed and cubed/mashed first. Typical sweet potato halwa recipes are with milk, this one is without so much quicker.

Ingredients:

3/4 -1 cup sweet potato peeled and cubed
1 tbsp ghee or butter
1 tbsp jaggery crush or sugar
1 dry fig
A pinch of finely grated nutmeg

Heat a pan, melt the butter/ghee. Add the cubed sweet potatoes, mix well.

Cover the pan and steam for about 10 minutes stirring occasionally so they don't stick to the bottom of the pan.

Grate the nutmeg, wash and chop fig.

Once the sweet potatoes are soft mix in the sugar or jaggery. Add the nutmeg and mix well, toss in the figs and you're done.