Sweet potato sticks

 Today has been one of those extremely cold days here and I wanted to eat some snacks but no snacks were available. I has sweet potatoes though…so I made easy sweet potato sticks

Sweet potato sticks ( Basked sweet potato snacks)

Sweet potato sticks

Ingredients 

1. 1 medium large sweet potato boiled for 20-22 minutes until soft.
2. 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
3. 4 tablespoons each of butter, cream cheese
4. 1 large egg
5. 1/4 teaspoon salt
6. 2 cups all purpose flour

Pre heat oven to 400 degrees F

In a bowl mix together butter and cream cheese until well combined. All sugar and mix well. Add the mashed sweet potatoes and the egg and mix well. Add the flour and salt and mix with a spatula. The dough may be a bit sticky.

In a baking sheet spread the dough with a spatula until it’s 1/2 cm thick. 

Note: I cut the dough into square with the spatula before baking. After 15 minutes at 400 degrees, I cut them into sticks and baked at 300 for 10 more minutes

Bake for 10 minutes and flip and bake for 5 minutes. Reduce heat to 300 and bake for 10 minutes. Cool and enjoy

Nimki

In the olden India there used to be sweet stalls...these are like small mom and pop bakeries which sold savory snacks and sweets. In the evening, during the tea time you could go and get hot snacks and all day long there will be other savory snacks which are great any time. Nimki, nammak para or I don't know the other million names this snack has, but these used to be my family's favorite.

So when my dear brother was visiting I found a recipe for this and made them. They were so delicious and so easy to make.
I will definitely be making them more often

Nimki (Salty snacks)

Nimki (Namak Para)

Ingredients:

1. 2 cups all purpose flour
2. 1/2 cup oil
3. 1 teaspoon salt (or less)
4. 1/2 teaspoon each of kalongi (onions seeds), ajwain
5. oil for deep frying

Add the salt and the seeds to the flour and mix well. Add the oil and mix so that that oil and flour
get incorporated  well together. Add water little by little until the dough comes together. Cover and set aside
for 30 minutes.
Heat oil in  a pan.
Roll the dough about 1/3 inch thick and cut it into cubes.
When the oil is hot, add some nimki to the oil and reduce the heat to medium and fry them until they become golden brown. Drain on a paper towel and enjoy