Sumayya Usmani

Shakarkandi

Baked sweet potato with chaat masala

Preparation info
  • Serves

    2–4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      1 hr 10

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top 1000Summers Under the Tamarind Tree: Recipes and memories from Pakistan
Summers Under the Tamarind Tree

By Sumayya Usmani

Published 2016

  • About

An eagerly awaited winter snack, these coal-baked sweet potatoes are served with nothing more than a sprinkle of chaat masala and a squeeze of lemon. They’re hawked from wooden carts with a steel tub that’s used to barbecue the potatoes, and they’re handed out wrapped in paper.

Ingredients

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6.

Pierce the sweet potatoes with a fork then wrap each one in a piece of foil. Place them on the middle shelf of the oven and bake for