Mildly cooked lotus yam and carrot salsa

Ingredients

• one stem lotus yam
• 2 medium size carrots
• 1 tomato
• 1/2 red onion
• 2 tsp of vegetable or sunflower oil
• salt and pepper
• 1/2 clove of garlic

Method

• first grate the carrots and cook them in 1 tsp of oil, while its cooking grate the lotus yam and add it to the carrots along with the other tsp of oil cook them for about 2 - 3 minutes or until the smell of rawness from the yam has died out ( not more than 5 mins max)
• Next cut tomato and onion into small even dice and mix them with the cooked yam and carrots. ( make sure you take the pan of the heat before adding )
• next add salt and pepper to taste and also a dash of lime juice if you prefer more zing
• serve fresh as accompaniment to meat, fish or meaty vegetable dishes.