Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork
Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lotus root tempura stuffed with pork. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Drain and pat dry with paper towel. Meanwhile, mix ground pork with onion, ginger, salt and flour. Then sandwich a spoonful of the meat between two slices of lotus root. Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork This is a recipe I learned from my favorite izakaya (kind of Japanese pub).

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook lotus root tempura stuffed with pork using 18 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork:
  1. Get 1/4 stalk Green onion (NEGI) or onion
  2. Get 1/2-1 tsp Fresh ginger, grated
  3. Make ready 350 g Lotus root (2 whole roots)
  4. Make ready 200 g Ground pork
  5. Take 1/4 tsp Salt
  6. Prepare 1 Tbsp Flour
  7. Take <Tempura batter>
  8. Get 3/4 cup Flour (cake or pastry flour if you have it)
  9. Get 1/4 cup Potato starch (Katakuriko)
  10. Make ready 1/2 tsp Baking powder
  11. Get 120 ml Sparkling water or water
  12. Get <Dipping sauce>
  13. Make ready 2 Tbsp Soy sauce
  14. Get 1 tsp Grated ginger (optional)
  15. Get 1 tsp Rice vinegar
  16. Get 1/2 tsp Sugar
  17. Take 1/2 tsp Salt
  18. Take to taste Karashi mustard

Add the grated ginger root, chopped long green onion, sake, sesame oil and the potato starch. Have a little more time today. Make this stuffed Lotus root with minced pork. These tasty little fried meat sandwiches made with lotus root stuffed with pork are deliciously savory, crispy, and crunchy.

Instructions to make Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork:
  1. Lotus roots! I used two small :) You can easily peel the out skin with a regular peeler.
  2. Peel and slice lotus into thin slices (about 3mm or so).
  3. Grate ginger and mince onions.
  4. Soak lotus in water for 5-10 minutes. Drain and pat dry with paper towel.
  5. Meanwhile, mix ground pork with onion, ginger, salt and flour. Then sandwich a spoonful of the meat between two slices of lotus root.
  6. Repeat until all lotus "sandwiches" are done.
  7. Mix flour, potato starch, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl.
  8. Heat frying oil over medium to until hot enough to fry, about 170C/325F if you have a thermometer
  9. When ready to fry, mix sparkling water (or just cold water) into flour until you get a consistency of heavy cream (it was about 120 ml for me).
  10. Dip each lotus sandwich into the batter. Let excess batter run off before frying.
  11. Fry until batter is crisp and meat is cooked - a couple minutes each. Cut one in half to check the meat if you're worried.
  12. The tempura batter should turn out light and a bit poofy!
  13. Mix soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and ginger (if using) for dipping sauce. Slice each lotus sandwich in half and serve with dipping sauce and karashi mustard. Yum!

Make this stuffed Lotus root with minced pork. These tasty little fried meat sandwiches made with lotus root stuffed with pork are deliciously savory, crispy, and crunchy. Fried Lotus Root with Pork - delicious pork & shiitake mushroom mixture sandwiched between lotus root and deep-fried until crunchy. It's one of my favorite ways to enjoy lotus root growing up! Dip one of the lotus root slices into the batter, remove it, then hold it horizontally for a second or two to allow the batter to run through the holes in the lotus root.

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