Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork
Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lotus root tempura stuffed with pork. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Now it's time to prepare the oil for frying. I like to use a small, deep pot because it requires less oil and its depth helps contain the oil, avoiding These tasty little fried meat sandwiches made with lotus root stuffed with pork are deliciously savory, crispy, and crunchy. Stuffed Lotus Root is great for a bento side dish and also served as a snack with alcohol.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lotus root tempura stuffed with pork using 18 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork:
  1. Make ready 1/4 stalk Green onion (NEGI) or onion
  2. Take 1/2-1 tsp Fresh ginger, grated
  3. Take 350 g Lotus root (2 whole roots)
  4. Prepare 200 g Ground pork
  5. Take 1/4 tsp Salt
  6. Make ready 1 Tbsp Flour
  7. Take <Tempura batter>
  8. Take 3/4 cup Flour (cake or pastry flour if you have it)
  9. Get 1/4 cup Potato starch (Katakuriko)
  10. Take 1/2 tsp Baking powder
  11. Take 120 ml Sparkling water or water
  12. Prepare <Dipping sauce>
  13. Make ready 2 Tbsp Soy sauce
  14. Prepare 1 tsp Grated ginger (optional)
  15. Prepare 1 tsp Rice vinegar
  16. Make ready 1/2 tsp Sugar
  17. Get 1/2 tsp Salt
  18. Make ready to taste Karashi mustard

A comfort food appreciated everywhere and a great snack if you like beer! Humble lotus root soup has been on Chinese dinner tables for hundreds of years. Whenever purchasing or buying lotus root, I always Hot and healthy soups are always comforting in cold days. Lotus root soup with pork bones and deep-fried stuffed lotus roots are quintessential Hubei Spring.

Steps to make Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork:
  1. Lotus roots! I used two small :) You can easily peel the out skin with a regular peeler.
  2. Peel and slice lotus into thin slices (about 3mm or so).
  3. Grate ginger and mince onions.
  4. Soak lotus in water for 5-10 minutes. Drain and pat dry with paper towel.
  5. Meanwhile, mix ground pork with onion, ginger, salt and flour. Then sandwich a spoonful of the meat between two slices of lotus root.
  6. Repeat until all lotus "sandwiches" are done.
  7. Mix flour, potato starch, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl.
  8. Heat frying oil over medium to until hot enough to fry, about 170C/325F if you have a thermometer
  9. When ready to fry, mix sparkling water (or just cold water) into flour until you get a consistency of heavy cream (it was about 120 ml for me).
  10. Dip each lotus sandwich into the batter. Let excess batter run off before frying.
  11. Fry until batter is crisp and meat is cooked - a couple minutes each. Cut one in half to check the meat if you're worried.
  12. The tempura batter should turn out light and a bit poofy!
  13. Mix soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and ginger (if using) for dipping sauce. Slice each lotus sandwich in half and serve with dipping sauce and karashi mustard. Yum!

Lotus roots is really a versatile vegetable. Is not only for making soup but you can use it for stir-fry, pickle, stew, make chips and even eat it raw as a salad. Stuffed Lotus Roots—Pan-fried Version. easy stuffed lotus root-can be filled pork or shrimp. Lotus root (renkon in Japanese) is actually the rhizome of the lotus plant. It's a popular vegetable Lotus root is full of fiber and various vitamins and other nutrients.

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