Was again and boil until the yam becomes mashy. Wash the purple yam and dice into small pieces. Sri Lankan tinned fish (Salmon) – 1 tin (Approx: 425g) Serve with fish or chicken curry or Lunu Miris. Remove from heat and spread over a banana leaf.Ĭut into pieces of desired size.
Let it cook until the coconut milk is well absorbed into the cooked yam and rice mix. Then add first extract coconut milk and mix well. Add the diced purple yam, water, crushed cardamom and saltĬook under medium heat until the rice and yam are cooked. Wash Suvandel rice and add to a clay pot. Pare the outer skin, dice the yam into small pieces and wash well again. Wash purple yam well to remove all the dirt. Lay a parchment paper on the baking tray and flatten the small pieces of dough. Mix all the ingredients to form a soft dough. The writer is engaged in a research to develop and innovate recipes with less known edible plants in Sri Lanka as a solution to food insecurity and malnutrition. Aggala can also be made with mashed purple yam by adding scraped coconut, salt and little ground pepper and by shaping them into balls. To prepare Roti, boiled and mashed purple yam is used instead of flour and mix with scraped coconut. Sri Lankan Pol Roti can also be made with purple yam. Other exclusive recipes that the writer could develop were Purple Yam Aggala, Purple Yam Cutlet and Purple Yam Gnanakatha (cookies).Īlthough new to Sri Lanka, purple yam jam is a popular dish in Philippines. Apart from these methods of consuming purple yam, other ways of use are not popular.Īs part of the research, the writer could develop a fusion dish named Purple Yam Milk Rice (Raja Ala Kiri bath/ Rasavallik Kizhangu Partsoru) by incorporating purple yam into Sri Lanka’s indigenous milk rice (Kiribath). Some prepare purple yam porridge while others make the yam into a curry. Boiled purple yam with grated coconut is mainly consumed in Sri Lanka. According to studies,purple yam can be used as a treatment for inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, aging disorders, menopause, cancers and osteoporosis.Īlthough less popular in Sri Lanka, this versatile tuber has a wide range of culinary uses. This yam also contains antioxidants and improves immunity. Studies have found that anumber of bioactive compounds such as flavonoids, phenols, alkaloids and tannins is present in purple yam. This yam also contains nutrients such as proteins, lipids, vitamins andminerals. Hence, purple yam can be recommended as a good source of energy. Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models). Yam’s potential as a source of food is attributed to its high levels of carbohydrates including fibre,starch and sugar, contributing about 200 dietary calories per person per day (Genomics of Tropical Crop Plants. The advantages are that the irrigation for the cultivation is required in moderation and the damage to the crop by pests is low. Some 30 to 37 metric tons of yield can be obtained in a hectare from the dry zone alone. The Department of Agriculture said that the yield can be obtained after eight months of cultivation of purple yam. As per the Department of Agriculture, purple yam is largely grown as a commercial crop in the Moneragala, Jaffna and Anuradhapura districts. In Sri Lanka, this yam is grown in wet as well as dry zones. The yam is grown in South America, Africa and in some parts of Australia. Purple yam, as the name suggests is purple, the origin of which is South Asia. Hence, the cultivation as well as the consumption of them can be recommended. As per International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the global annual consumption of yam is placed at 18 million tons.Īdditionally, some yams have been used for preventing and treating diseases. Yams have been identified as a crop with potential for fighting hunger and malnutrition and have contributed to the food security and livelihood sustainability in many under-developed and developing countries. In general, yams are known for their high content of carbohydrate and calorie. The country will have to deal with the latter issues which can occur as a result of hampered food production and income-earning opportunitieswhich can impact food and nutrition security in thefuture. Purple yam (Dioscoreaalata L) which is locally known as Raja Ala, Dandina Alaor Rasavallik Kizhangu is a neglected and underutilised food in Sri Lanka which deserves raising awareness among the public to fight food insecurity and malnutrition.
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