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

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, lotus root tempura stuffed with pork. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork This is a recipe I learned from my favorite izakaya (kind of Japanese pub). I loved it so much I made the ladies at the izakaya teach me, haha. Put all of the meat filling ingredients (ground pork (or ground chicken), Shaoxing wine, light soy sauce (生抽), water, sesame oil, cornstarch, white pepper, scallion, and ginger) in a mixing bowl. With the flour side facing down, place another slice onto the filling, making sure they attach firmly together.

Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork is something which I have loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork:
  1. Prepare 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. Take 200 g Ground pork
  5. Take 1/4 tsp Salt
  6. Take 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. Make ready 1/2 tsp Baking powder
  11. Take 120 ml Sparkling water or water
  12. Prepare <Dipping sauce>
  13. Take 2 Tbsp Soy sauce
  14. Take 1 tsp Grated ginger (optional)
  15. Make ready 1 tsp Rice vinegar
  16. Make ready 1/2 tsp Sugar
  17. Take 1/2 tsp Salt
  18. Prepare to taste Karashi mustard

Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork step by step. I used two small 🙂 You can easily peel the out skin with a regular peeler. Drain and pat dry with paper towel. Fried Lotus Root with Pork - delicious pork & shiitake mushroom mixture sandwiched between lotus root and deep-fried until crunchy.

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!

Drain and pat dry with paper towel. Fried Lotus Root with Pork - delicious pork & shiitake mushroom mixture sandwiched between lotus root and deep-fried until crunchy. It's one of my favorite ways to enjoy lotus root growing up! Lotus root is a super food in both Chinese medicine and cuisine. Chinese people believe lotus root can improve your digestive system, help blood circulation, improve energy and help with anti-aging and high in fiber.

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