Fried Sweet Potato Balls

Eater Zone 小厨
Jan 15, 2018
2 min read

Updated: Mar 9, 2018

Fried sweet potato ball is a famous street food in the southern part of China. I have been eating this soft, chewy sweet potato balls growing up. My grandma would always make this for me for snacks after afternoon naps, and there can be more creation for this dish as the sweet potato could be substituted with pumpkin and purple yams. After I grew up and moved to America, I missed the taste of this so much because it reminds me of grandma and my childhood. I decided to make it myself because my mom thinks deep frying waste too much oil~ After an hot oil accident happened five years ago, I haven’t been making food that required deep frying, but today I made this for myself and for you guys~ Let’s get started!

The ingredients used are simple, easy to obtain in most Asian markets.

Ingredients:

300g Japanese Sweet potato (Japanese Yam)

100g Glutinous rice flour

15g Sugar

200mL Corn oil (for deep frying)

Steps:

1. Peel off the sweet potato skin, then cut into small pieces.

2. Steam sweet potatoes for 15-20 minutes, until softens. Mashed the steamed sweet potato until no lumps present.

3. Mix in sugar and glutinous rice flour. Mix well and form a dough.

4. Cut the dough into equal size pieces, then shape them into sweet potato balls.

5. Preheat oil to 160oC (best if you have a thermometer. If you don’t have one, you can use a chopstick to do a test. when small bubbles formed around the chopstick, then the oil is hot enough)