Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, taro sweet potato balls. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Taro sweet potato balls is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Taro sweet potato balls is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook taro sweet potato balls using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Taro sweet potato balls:
- Make ready Taro balls
- Prepare 200 g taro
- Prepare 100 g tapioca starch
- Get 20 g sugar
- Make ready 50 ml boiling water
- Get Sweet potato balls
- Take 200 g sweet potatoes
- Get 120 g tapioca starch
- Get 20 g sugar
- Take 40 ml boiling water
Toss the balls with sugar once cooked. The remaining heat helps to melt the sugar and from a syrup on the surface. This process can make the taro balls more shinning and appealing and meanwhile keep them separated from each other. It can be found in almost every part of Taiwan, among which Jiufen's taro ball is said to be the most famous.
Steps 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.
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. sweet potato, barley, boba, taro balls, red bean soup. Add in cooked sweet potato balls and cooked taro balls. Mixed and knead into a pliable dough. (add hot water accordingly, you may need more, if the dough is dry or less if the dough is wet) Repeat the procedure with the steamed sweet potato but do note that more or less flour may be required, depending on the variety of the sweet potato used. To cook the taro and sweet potato balls, bring a pot of water to a rolling boil. Carefully drop the balls into the water and cook until they start to float.
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