Sweet potato and peas cutlet

Sweet potato steamed is often eaten here along with a spicy uppu mulakku. I was inspired to try a cutlet version after seeing this recipe. My cutlet had the following ...

Sweet potato - 4 small

Olive oil - 2 tsps + for shallow frying the cutlets

Carom seeds - 1/4 tsp

Curry leaves - a handful

Onion - 1

Green chili - 1

Ginger - 1"

Garlic - 4 or 5 cloves

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder - a pinch

Kashmiri chili powder - 1/4 tsp

Coriander powder - 1/4 tsp

Chicken masala - 1/2 tsp

Green peas (frozen) - 1/2 cup

Sourdough oat bread - 3 slices

Organic brown egg - 1

Cut sweet potato into 2" pieces and pressure cook with water and a pinch of salt. A single whistle will do as it cooks fast. Once it cools down, peel off the skin. Mash with the back of a fork and keep aside.

Heat a saucepan and add 2 tsps of oil. Add carom seeds and after a few seconds, add curry leaves. Stir. Add chopped onion, minced chili, garlic and ginger. Stir until onion becomes lightly brown. Add all spices. Stir for a minute or two. Add thawed peas and mashed sweet potatoes. Stir to combine. Remove from heat. Once it cools down, shape into balls.

Break egg and beat it lightly. Powder bread in a grinder for the breadcrumbs, Dip each ball in egg and coat with breadcrumbs.

Heat the saucepan and add enough oil to shallow fry. Place the breaded balls and fry until it is lightly browned on all sides. Enjoy with tomato ketchup.

The kindle book spotted along with the sweet potato and peas mix is Claire Amarti's book "The Silent Daughter". It is an emotional suspense. I liked the story a lot and it is one of the rare books I finished in a day. It revolves around teenagers; about best friends forever, parenting and abuse. 

"So many things aren't what you think they are going to be. Philips secrets. Simones secrets. Even my mom had her secrets. And do those secrets keep anybody safer in the end? Do they protect anyone from pain? Or do they just trap us deeper, and deeper,  and deeper?" I think secrets do drag you deeper down. It's better to be open in your relationships with your close and dear ones.