Elephant Yam Recipe

Indications

• It is said to be best among the tubers
• It balances all the 3 doshas
• It cures Kapha and Vata Diseases
• Cures bleeding piles
• Cures loss of appetite

Sanskrit name: Soorana

Botanical name: Amorphophallus Campanulatus

English name: Elephant Yam

Tamil name: Pidikarunai kizhangu

Preparation

Ingredients

• Elephant yam - 200 gm
• Turmeric - 1 pinch
• Green chilly - 1
• Mustard - 1 tsp
• Rock salt - to taste
• Sesame oil - 2 spoons
• Curry leaves - few

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Method

Steam cook the yam and remove the external skin. Crush it and make it like a paste. Add this to a seasoning of mustard, green chilly and turmeric in sesame oil. Add rock salt and mix well. Garnish it with curry leaves.