Vietnamese Sweet Potato Dessert

Updated at: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 20:45:49 GMT

Step 1

Boil/steam sweet potato: Prepare a pot of boiling water to boil or steam sweet potatoes. Steaming could be better as the amount of water inside each sweet potato is as low as possible. However, if boiling is much more convenient, you can just boil it, but remember to keep the whole potatoes to prevent too much water from absorbing into them. Boil/steam sweet potatoes in 30-40 minutes, then turn off the heat but still leave them in hot water/steam until cooling down. Test the doneness by using a fork to stab them, if it’s easy to stab, your sweet potatoes are well cooked. Then, peel the skin.

Step 2

Making Sweet Potato Mixture: After peeling the skin of boiled/steamed, weigh the boiled & peeled sweet potatoes to take the exact required amount, and use a potato masher or a fork to mash them finely. Next, add tapioca starch and sugar to mashed sweet potato and mix them well until they become a block of dough. Test if the dough is good to go by take a bit of dough and shape them into a cube. If you can do it easily, that means the dough is thick enough. If it’s hard to shape or roll into a small piece, the dough seems too soft because of the higher amount of water from sweet potatoes than expected, especially when you boiled them. To fix it, add more tapioca starch, little by little, mix them well and try the test again. Dye the dough (optional): if you would like to have a colorful bowl of sweet potato dessert, you can dye your dough by food colorings. I used natural food colorings, such as beetroot juice for the red color and pandan extract for the green color. Rest the dough in 10-15 minutes.

Step 3

Shaping and cooking sweet potato cube/ball: Take a bit of dough and roll it into a ball or shape it into a cube. Continue until you finish the dough.

Step 4

Boiling: Turn on the heat and boil water. Once it comes to rolling boil, drop the cubes/balls in. Wait until they float on boiling water, remove them from the pot and immediately soak them in cool water to prevent each cube from sticking together.

Step 5

Serving: ­To serve Vietnamese Sweet Potato Dessert, add ice (if desired) and a desired amount of sweet potato cubes/balls in a bowl. Pour coconut milk/soy milk/cow milk in, and garnish with roasted peanuts and white sesames.

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