How to Cook Yummy Taiwanese Sweet Potato Fried Mochi

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Only a few simple ingredients used in these gluten free Sweet Potato Balls deep fried to golden perfection. My friend just pointed it out to me, calling it a deep fried sweet potato mochi :p. Chewy and bouncy Taiwanese Sweet Potato Balls [九份地瓜圆] that can be made into taro balls (yam balls) as well. You can have Taiwanese Sweet Potato Fried Mochi using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Taiwanese Sweet Potato Fried Mochi

1. Prepare 300 grams of Sweet potato (peeled and boiled, but you can also microwave them).
2. It's 1 tbsp of Light brown sugar (add more as desired).
3. It's 25 grams of Katakuriko (or cornstarch).
4. You need 75 grams of Shiratamako.
5. It's 1 of Frying oil.

It's not as difficult as it seems to make them! Taiwanese Sweet Potato Balls: Step-by-Step Photos. These Purple Sweet Potato Mochi were inspired by a delicious dessert I had on holiday in Thailand a couple of years ago: taro balls in coconut milk, which It's basically like making gnocchi but with purple potatoes and rice flour. Decorate with white and/or black sesame seeds if you like.

Taiwanese Sweet Potato Fried Mochi instructions

1. Cut the sweet potato into small pieces and boil. It's also okay to microwave..
2. Smash the sweet potatoes into a paste. If you want sweeter results, add light brown sugar..
3. Add the katakuriko and shiratamako and mix everything together well..
4. This is what it'll look like after the mixing in Step 3..
5. Roll into 2-3 cm diameter balls..
6. Fry the sweet potato balls in 140-160℃ oil for at least 2 minutes. If you lightly press down on them with the back of a spoon, etc. while frying, they'll absorb air and expand..
7. Once the outsides have browned, they're done..

Have I mentioned these Okinawan purple sweet potato mochi cakes are soft and stretchy? My kids like them with an extra honey drizzled on. Dried grated sweet potatoes accompanied Taiwanese people throughout the Qing dynasty, Japanese occupation period and the early stage of Chinese Nationalist one-party rule. Just before WWII, Japanese people discovered that the sweet potato starch can be fermented to producing ethanol. Sweet Potato Fries with Chipotle Lime Dip are a really popular at one of my favorite local restaurants.

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