Main Ingredients:
1 purple sweet potato; 1 yellow sweet potato.
Additional Ingredients:
2 packets of cassava starch; a little bit of peanuts, lotus seeds, mung beans, and red beans.
Taste: Sweet; Cooking Method: Boiling; Time: Half an hour; Difficulty: Easy.
Detailed Steps for Making Handmade Taro Balls
Steam the yellow sweet potato, remove the skin, and mash it into a paste.
Prepare the cassava starch.
Pour the steamed sweet potato paste into the cassava starch. If you can’t get the right consistency, add a little bit of water and knead the mixture until it’s smooth.
Take two small purple sweet potatoes and cut them into small pieces.
Remove the skin and mash them into a paste.
Add the mashed purple sweet potato to the cassava starch and mix well. Knead the mixture into a dough.
Roll the dough into small balls.
Take a small piece of yellow sweet potato and roll it into a long, thin strip. Cut it into small pieces with a knife.
Alternatively, you can press the yellow sweet potato into a flat disk and cut it with a knife for faster results.
These are two different shapes of taro balls.
Cut the mashed purple sweet potato into small squares.
Boil water and add the taro balls. Cook until they float to the surface.
The key step is to immediately transfer the taro balls to cold water. This step is crucial for making the taro balls chewy and bouncy.
Put the pre-cooked lotus seeds, peanuts, and red beans into a bowl of sweet soup.
Add the taro balls to the sweet soup and serve.
Enjoy your delicious, warm, and beautiful taro balls!
