I sure am glad that I had kept my old school text books.
One of the books is a “Home making” subject that teaches us students to cook, sew and laundry.
Although the book was printed in Malay language, I could easily translate the instructions to English since I had studied in a National School ( Malay is our national language )
In this book, there are 20 different types of local Malay recipes where we had learned how to cook in school.
Back then, we had to bring over ingredients from home in order to cook in school.
Then, our home making teacher will taste and judge each student’s recipe result and marks given for our record book.
One of my best known recipe is Sweet Potato Doughnut which I had made several times at home.
There are 3 types of sweet potatoes sold in our country:
– orange texture with dark brown skin
-white texture with brown skin
-white yellowish texture with purple skin
Orage texture sweet potatoes are naturally sweet but not easily cooked compare to the white texture.
Hence, I would recommend you to buy the white texture with brown skin sweet potatoes so that you don’t have to waste time and gas consumption.
Although the steps are quite different from the American doughnut recipes that I had found online, this doughnut uses more sweet potato than flour.
In addition sweet potato helps your bowel movement to move the waste easily in the transverse colon.
Sweet potato is high in fibre, a wonderful and the cheapest root food that benefits your digestive system.
Trust me, this Sweet Potato Doughnuts are far better and healthier compare to the flour based doughnuts.
– 1 sweet medium potato ( white texture , brown skin )
– 30g / 1oz tapioca flour
-30g / 1oz corn flour
– 1 tbsp water (if required)
– 60g / 2oz fine sugar
– 2tbsp water
-cooking oil for deep frying
– brush the skin of the sweet potato under tap water.
– Bring a pot to boil. Toss in the brushed and cleaned sweet potato into the pot.
– Do not peel off the potato skin.
-Boil until the sweet potato soften.
-Use a fork to poke into the sweet potato.
-If it feel soft, easily poke right through the end, it is ready.
– After the sweet potato is cooked, peel off the delicate skin with a small knife.
-Use the back of a fork to mash the sweet potato in a mixing bowl.
-Sieve in the tapioca flour and corn flour into the bowl.
-Add in 1 tbsp of water if the dough is too dry.
-Mix the dough well until well combined.
-Dough should be sticky.
-Roll the sweet potato dough on top of floured flat surface ( I used a chopper board )
-Roll the dough into a long sausage shape with 2.5cm thickness
– divide the dough into 8 portions
-Pick up a piece of the dough, use your palm to shape it into a circle ball then flatten it a little with your palm.
-Make a small hole in the centre of the doughnut dough with something that is circular and long.
-If it is out of shape, amend the dough with touch up to make it into a circle doughnut shape.
-Repeat the same step for the remainder 7 pieces of sweet potato doughnut dough.
-Heat up wok with sufficient cooking oil for deep drying.
– Prepare a flat plate with kitchen paper towel .
-Slip in one doughnut at a time into the wok.
-Make sure that the doughnuts are separated, not stick to each other.
-Flip over the doughnuts after 10 minutes.
-Make sure both sides of doughnuts are brownish and crisp.
– Use a spatula or large soup ladle with holes to scoop up the doughnuts, in order to allow the excess oil to drip off.
-Transfer the cooked sweet potato doughnuts onto the kitchen paper towel in order to absorb excess oil from them.
– In a small bowl, mix together fine sugar with water.
-Transfer the sugar mixture into a small pot to heat up until the mixture thickens.
-Use a spoon to scoop up the thicken sugar, glaze all over the sweet potato doughnuts.
– Leave to dry up on wire rack.
You will noticed that when the sugar dries up, it thickens into alike balls of icing sugar.
Taste great with hot beverages
Yield: 4 persons, 8-12 pieces
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Sweet potatoes are my favourite in any form. Making doughnuts seems a good idea. I have a stock of sweet potatoes that were just bought. Hope I will not be lazy but prepare this item.