Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, stir-fried and simmered new potato and lotus root with sesame seeds. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Stir-fried and Simmered New Potato and Lotus Root with Sesame Seeds is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Stir-fried and Simmered New Potato and Lotus Root with Sesame Seeds is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
I added lotus root and sesame seeds to the usual stir fried and simmered new potato dish to add volume and flavor. The new potatoes and lotus root are both dense and floury. The sweet-salty sauce is so good! The new potatoes are cut in half before cooking, so you cut down on cooking time and make it easy for the flavors to soak in.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have stir-fried and simmered new potato and lotus root with sesame seeds using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Stir-fried and Simmered New Potato and Lotus Root with Sesame Seeds:
- Get 7 to 8 small New potatoes
- Make ready 1 small Lotus root
- Prepare 1 tbsp Vegetable oil
- Get 2 tbsp Sugar (I recommend raw cane sugar or light brown sugar)
- Get 1 tbsp Mirin
- Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp Soy sauce
- Make ready 1 White sesame seeds
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, and fry the sweet potato and lotus root over medium heat until the moisture has thoroughly evaporated. Slice the potatoes and place them in a bowl with the sesame seeds and spices. Our Lotus Root Stir Fry Recipe. Simple stir-fried lotus root is hard to beat as a vegetable side dish.
Instructions to make Stir-fried and Simmered New Potato and Lotus Root with Sesame Seeds:
- Wash the potatoes very well, and cut into half with the skins on. Peel the lotus root and cut up roughly. Soak in water for about 5 minutes and drain.
- Heat a pan and add oil. Stir fry the potatoes and lotus root over medium-high heat until the potato skins are lightly browned.
- Add enough water to cover the potatoes and lotus root, turn up the heat to high and bring to a boil. Turn the heat down to low and add the sugar and mirin. Cover with a drop lid or otoshibuta.
- Simmer for about 10 minutes. Add soy sauce, cover with a drop lid, and simmer over low-medium heat until the potatoes are tender.
- Remove the drop lid, raise the heat to medium and evaporate the liquid in the pan. Shake the pan occasionally to prevent burning. Roll the ingredients around in the pan.
- As the liquid evaporates, the ingredients take on a shiny sheen. Sprinkle sesame seeds at the end, mix thoroughly and it's done.
- Transfer to a serving plate and enjoy.
- The flavors should have penetrated the new potatoes well. And the lotus root shiny and appetizing.
Our Lotus Root Stir Fry Recipe. Simple stir-fried lotus root is hard to beat as a vegetable side dish. Lotus roots have a very subtle sweet flavor that takes on the flavor of whatever they're cooked in. This recipe features a light but surprisingly flavorful sauce made with ginger, scallions, garlic, oyster sauce, an Shaoxing wine. I had never tried or heard of this vegetable until I met my husband, who is of Chinese descent.
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