Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, scrumptious lotus root. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Scrumptious Lotus Root Lotus Root is a common ingredient for Japanese cooking, but it is one of the hard-to-find vegetables in Australia. However, ready-to-use frozen Lotus Root is available from many Asian grocery stores. Lotus Root has no strong flavour, but it has very unique crispy and crunchy texture as well as potato-like texture. Scrumptious Lotus Root Lotus Root is a common ingredient for Japanese cooking, but it is one of the hard-to-find vegetables in Australia.
Scrumptious Lotus Root is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Scrumptious Lotus Root is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook scrumptious lotus root using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Scrumptious Lotus Root:
- Get 400 g Frozen Lotus Root *thawed
- Prepare 2-3 tablespoons Potato starch Flour OR Corn Starch Flour
- Prepare Oil for frying
- Prepare Toasted Sesame Seeds
- Make ready <Sauce>
- Prepare 2 tablespoons Sugar
- Take 1 tablespoon Rice Vinagar
- Get 2 tablespoons Soy Sauce OR 3 tablespoons ‘Bannō’ Soy Sauce
- Prepare *Note: ‘Bannō’ Soy Sauce can be made by combining 2 tablespoons Soy Sauce, 1/4 teaspoon grated Garlic, 1/2 teaspoon grated Ginger, 1/2 teaspoon Toban Djan (Chilli Bean Sauce)
Lotus root is the long stem of the lotus plant. The lotus plant has the scientific name Nelumbo nucifera and belongs to the Nelumbonaceae family. The root, flower stalks and seeds are commonly used in Chinese and Japanese cuisine. The tubular lotus root is found buried in swampy, anaerobic (lack of oxygen) sediment.
Steps to make Scrumptious Lotus Root:
- Combine all the sauce ingredients in a small bowl.
- Cut Lotus Root slices in half, sprinkle with Potato Starch Flour and coat each piece. This layer of starch will become jelly-like when combined with sauce.
- Shallow fry the Lotus Root pieces with generous amount of Oil in a frying pan until slightly golden and crispy. They tend to stick to each other because of the starch coating, so DO NOT fry too many pieces at once.
- When you finished frying the Lotus Root pieces, transfer the Oil to a mug or something, and clean the pan using paper towel.
- Place the sauce in the pan and heat over medium high heat. When the sauce starts boiling, add fried Lotus Root pieces, and combine all well.
- Sprinkle with some Toasted Sesame Seeds and serve.
The root, flower stalks and seeds are commonly used in Chinese and Japanese cuisine. The tubular lotus root is found buried in swampy, anaerobic (lack of oxygen) sediment. However, ready-to-use frozen Lotus Root is available from many Asian grocery stores. Lotus root is high in dietary fiber, which can aid in digestion, and is considered a good source of energy as it is high in carbohydrates. It also contains vitamin C, manganese, zinc, iron, copper, vitamin B, potassium, and magnesium.
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