Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, taro sweet potato balls. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Vary the amount of tapioca flour for the taro, orange and purple sweet potatoes depending on their starch content. As a rule of thumb, taro will need the least, purple sweet potato a bit more and orange sweet potato the most. Cook the balls, red bean and ginger syrup all at once to save time.
Taro sweet potato balls is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Taro sweet potato balls is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have taro sweet potato balls using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Taro sweet potato balls:
- Take Taro balls
- Prepare 200 g taro
- Prepare 100 g tapioca starch
- Get 20 g sugar
- Take 50 ml boiling water
- Prepare Sweet potato balls
- Prepare 200 g sweet potatoes
- Make ready 120 g tapioca starch
- Prepare 20 g sugar
- Prepare 40 ml boiling water
Without the sweet potato flour, the balls will be too soft. But again, the moisture level affects the amount of flour used. Toss the balls with sugar once cooked. The remaining heat helps to melt the sugar and from a syrup on the surface.
Instructions to make Taro sweet potato balls:
- Peel the taro and sweet potatoes. Cut them into pieces and steam them for 25 minutes until it is cooked.
- Take the taro out and crush them separately when they are still hot. Set aside the sweet potatoes inside the wok to keep it warm.
- Add sugar into the taro and mix well when then are still hot.
- Add the tapioca starch and make a well. Pour the boiling water into it. Set aside for 30 second so that part of the starch is gelatinize. Stir well.
- Rub it on the table until it become a smooth dough. Add a bit of water or tapioca starch if it is too dry or too wet.
- Cut the dough into 1.5cm dice. Put the dice into tapioca starch to make sure that they won't stick with each other.
- Repeat step 2 to 6 for the sweet potatoes.
- Boil the taro balls for 4 minutes. Serve with ginger sweet soup or whatever you like.
This process can make the taro balls more shinning and appealing and meanwhile keep them separated from each other. It can be added to ice-cream too ! TARO AND SWEET POTATO CHEWY BALLS. It can be found in almost every part of Taiwan, among which Jiufen's taro ball is said to be the most famous. The taro balls can be made by mixing mashed taro with water and sweet potato flour or potato flour, making the taro balls more springy or softer respectively.
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