The crispy on the outside yet soft on the inside, deep-fried sweet potato dough ball is a delicious snack loved by Malaysians.
Commonly sold by street vendors, these irresistible sweet potato balls are in fact easy to make at home using minimal ingredients such as sweet potato, flour, salt, sugar and baking powder.
Benefits of Sweet Potatoes
Did you know sweet potatoes provide a number of health benefits? They are a great source of fibre, vitamins, and minerals.
Orange and purple sweet potatoes are rich in antioxidants. These antioxidants protect our bodies from free radicals.
Sweet potatoes also contain soluble and insoluble fibres that benefit our gut health. A healthy gut is an important part of a healthy immune system. With all these benefits, sweet potatoes easily make an exceptional option for carbs.
Making sweet dough balls are actually very easy. First, steam the sweet potatoes until the inside is cooked through. Then add flour, salt, sugar and baking powder. Knead into a soft dough.
Shape dough into small balls and fry them until golden. Sounds simple enough for you to try? Then let’s check out this recipe:
Sweet Potato Balls Recipe
Equipment
- Steamer
- Wok
Ingredients
- 450 g sweet potatoes peeled and steamed
- 1 cup rice flour
- 1/4 cup glutinous rice flour
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
Instructions
- Prepare steamer. Add sweet potatoes and steam until tender, about 15 minutes. Remove from steamer and mash.
- Add baking powder into rice flour.
- Pour rice flour into mashed sweet potatoes.
- Add glutinous rice flour.
- Mix in sugar and salt.
- Knead into soft dough.
- Roll into balls.
- Heat oil in a wok.
- Carefully roll the balls into the wok.
- Keep stirring until the balls turn golden.
- Remove from oil.
- Serve.
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