Yam ring is a good dishes to celebrate festival. I'm make it on the reunion dinner for Chinese New Year. Look nice and delicious.
Adapted from: Y3K Recipes
Yam Ring
300 gm yam (skinned)(diced)
150 gm wheat starch flour (tangmin flour)
some boiling water
1 tablespoon oil
Seasoning A:
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon five spice powder
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
Filling
Handful of rice vermicelli
80 gm chicken Meat (diced)
2 black mushrooms (soaked, diced)
1/4 carrots (diced)
1/4 green peppers (diced)
10 cashew Nuts (deep fried)
1/2 tomato (diced)
5 dried Chilies (soaked, cut into lengths)
(can add any vegetable on your own favourite)
Marinade for chicken
1/2 tablespoon light soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon corn flour
1/2 tablespoon oil
Seasoning B:
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/2 tablespoon chili sauce
pinch of white pepper
Method:
- Steam yam over high heat till cooked. Blend into paste while hot. Add in seasoning A and mix well.
- Put flour into bowl, pour hot water and stir well with chopstick.
- Add in yam paste and oil, knead well with hand while hot. Chill in fridge for 30 minutes.
- Remove the paste from fridge. Knead well and shape to form a ring.
- Heat up 1/2 wok oil on high heat till boil.(make sure is boil) Place yam ring onto a piece of bamboo grid. Deep fry till golden brown, remove and set aside. (I didn't use bamboo grid)
- Deep fry the dried rice vermicelli in boiling oil till crispy. Set aside.
- Heat up some oil. Saute dried chilies, add in other filling and fry a while. Add in seasoning B and fry till fragrant.
- Pour the filling into yam ring. Sprinkle crispy rice vermicelli on top and side as a garnishment.
Notes from Y3K
- The purpose of chill the yam dough is to prevent the yam ring from breaking during deep fry process.
- After remove the dough from the fridge, it need to knead again as the oil will sink to the bottom of the ring.
- Sprinkle some water onto the surface of oil when deep fry, will make the yam ring more crispy.
- Placing yam ring onto a bamboo grid prevent it from sticking to the bottom of the wok.
