Vegetarian Dish: Crisp Taro Spheres 素食:芋蝦盞

Chinese New Year Vegetarian Festive Food - Crisp Taro Spheres

Ingredients

Taro 

Vegetable oil

Seasoning

Salt

Steps

1.      Skin the taro

2.      Slice the taro into thin pieces (pic 2)

3.      Slit the slices with a peeler (pic 3)

4.      Marinate the taro strips with an appropriate amount of salt

5.      Preheat a wok of oil & wait until the oil is hot (but not too hot)

6.      Mould the taro strips into a stainless steel semicircular small ladle or stainless steel semicircular grease trapping small ladle (pic 4)

7.  Deep fry the taro strips by putting the ladle mentioned in step 6 into the heated oil slowly  

8.      Separate the taro sphere with a pair of chopsticks (see things to note entry 4) from the ladle after deep frying the taro sphere for a while

9.      Repeat other taro strips with the same steps

10.  Pick up the taro spheres and drain off excess oil

11.  Ready to serve

Things to note

-  raw taro may cause itchiness to skin for some people

-  the oil should not be too hot to avoid charing of taro strips

-  beware of hot oil splashing especially when putting taro strips into the wok.

-  use stainless steel or bamboo chopsticks as the oil is hot
-  store the finished products in an airtight container for retaining crispness(pic 5)

農曆新年素食 - 脆芋蝦球

材料

芋頭

植物油

調味料

食鹽

步驟

  1. 把芋頭皮削除

2. 把芋頭切成薄片(圖2)

3. 用削皮器把芋頭片削成絛子(圖3)

4. 放適量食鹽於芋絛拌勻

5. 預熱鍋中的植物油至熱 (但不要太熱)

6. 把適量芋絛放於不鏽鋼半圓型小湯勺或不鏽鋼半圓型隔
   油小湯勺(圖4)

7. 把步驟6的湯勺連芋絛慢慢的放進熱鍋中油炸

8. 用筷子(注意事項4)把芋絛球從湯勺輕輕脫出放進熱油中

9. 用相同步驟處理其他芋條

  10.當芋球質感硬挺及呈現金黃色便可撈起上桌

 注意事項

  - 一些人士可能會對生芋頭有皮膚痕癢反應

- 油溫不要太高免致芋條炭化

- 每當把芋條放進熱油，都要格外注意不要被熱油濺到

- 因油溫高，此步驟應用不鏽鋼或竹筷子

- 製成品應儲存於密封容器以保持其脆度(圖5)



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