Summer food: Sweet and irresistible Taiwanese 2-color sweet potato soup

The tea is extremely attractive with each soft and chewy potato ball mixed with sweet jaggery juice, fragrant with sticky leaves.

INGREDIENTS FOR POTATO COOKING – Yellow sweet potato: 250g (excluding the skin, about 1-2 tubers); – Purple sweet potato: 250g (excluding the skin, about 1-2 tubers); – Tapioca flour: 200g; – Pandan leaves (sticky leaves): 3-5 leaves; – Ginger: 1 thumb-sized piece; – Salt: – ½ teaspoon of salt; – Granulated sugar: 1 teaspoon (white or yellow sugar); – Palm sugar: 80g (adjust according to taste); Mist black jelly powder: 30g. HOW TO MAKE TAIWAN POTATO POTATO Step 1: Cook black jelly with dew Put 30g of black jelly powder in a pot and soak it with 300ml of water for about 30 minutes, then put the pot on the stove and cook on medium heat until the jelly powder boils, reduce the heat, add 20g of jaggery, stir well. Let it boil for another 3-4 minutes so that the jelly powder is cooked, then turn off the heat. Remove the jelly into the box, let it cool, when the jelly solidifies, cut into 1.5cm pieces. Step 2: Prepare potatoes – Sweet potato peeled, washed, cut into pieces and steamed for about 10 minutes, poke the chopsticks into the potato and find it soft, it is cooked. Remember to keep each type of potato separately so that the color is not mixed. Step 3: Create a shape of sweet potato – Put the steamed sweet potatoes in a bowl, while the potatoes are still hot, use a large spoon to mash the two types of sweet potatoes into 2 different bowls. Then slowly add 100g of tapioca starch to each type of potato, mix well with a spatula, then use gloves to squeeze the dough into a homogeneous mass. If you find that the powder is dry, you can add more water, note for each 5ml teaspoon to avoid adding too much water and the dough is pasty. – Divide the dough into small dough balls, then cut them into long fibers, then cut them short into 1.5-2cm long potato sticks. The parts of dough that have not been made, remember to cover so that the dough does not dry. Step 4: Boil the sweet potato balls Put the pot on the stove, put in 1 liter of cold water, bring to a boil, then drop the tapioca balls into the boiling water, the tapioca balls will float for another 2-3 minutes until the potatoes are soft, then take them out and put them in a bowl of water Drop some ice cubes. Then take the purple and yellow potatoes out into separate bowls, add ½ teaspoon of sugar to each bowl, mix well. Step 5: Boil sugar water Put the pot on the stove, add 300ml of cold water, stir in jaggery until dissolved, bring to a boil, then drop the sticky rice leaves (washed, rolled up) and sliced ​​fresh ginger and cook for another 5 minutes. turn off the stove. Present: Display a bowl of black jelly, purple sweet potato, yellow sweet potato, top with sugar and enjoy. This summer dish can be served cold to enhance its taste, and can be served with pearls for added flavor. You can make potato flour once and then store it gradually by after cutting and shaping the flexible potato balls in step 3, rub them well with a little tapioca starch and then put them in the freezer to freeze. When needed, take it out to defrost and then proceed to the next steps, the potatoes are still soft and fragrant as usual. Wish you success in cooking Taiwanese sweet potato soup!