【Sesame purple potato pumpkin balls】
Ingredients required: 300 grams of pumpkin, 300 grams of glutinous rice flour, 150 grams of purple potato, 1 tablespoon of sesame seeds, 1 tablespoon of sugar, appropriate amount of oil,
Steps:
1. Peel and flesh the pumpkin and cut it into slices, scrape off the skin of the purple sweet potato, wash it, and cut it into slices.
2. Add water to the steamer and boil, put the purple sweet potato and pumpkin in the steaming drawer, steam on high heat for about 15 minutes, and use chopsticks to easily pierce the pumpkin thoroughly, that is, it is steamed.
3. While hot, put the pumpkin in a bowl, use a spoon to puree the pumpkin slices, add sugar, stir well, and the purple potatoes are also pureed with a spoon.
4. Put the pumpkin puree into the pot, add the glutinous rice flour in batches, stirring with chopsticks while adding the glutinous rice flour until the pumpkin puree is stirred into a flocculent.
5. Knead again into a smooth, non-sticky dough.
6. Knead the dough into long pieces, then divide them into small agents, form a circle with your hands, and form a small round ball with your hands with purple sweet potato puree, which is smaller than pumpkin balls, and use it as a filling.
7. Press the pumpkin balls into a cake and place the purple sweet potato in the middle of the cake.
8. Wrap the purple sweet potato in it and form a circle.
9. Brush the surface of the pumpkin balls with a layer of water and roll a layer of sesame seeds evenly on the surface.
10. Then use your hands to form a circle and press the sesame seeds tightly so that when you fry them, the sesame seeds will not fall off.
11. Add oil to the pot and heat it, put the pumpkin balls in warm oil, fry them over medium-low heat, fry the surface and shape them, fry the pumpkin balls and float up, the surface color is golden, take out the pumpkin balls, drain the oil, and the sweet and soft sesame purple potato pumpkin balls are ready.
Tips: Pumpkin pie should be fried in warm oil, fried over medium and low heat, and the outside of the char is not cooked with high heat, and the frying time should not be too long, it can be fried for too long, and it is easy to crack if the frying time is too long.