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Oatmeal Sweet Potato Balls

タピオカ粉を麦にチェンジ!夜市で大行列の「地瓜球」をギルトフリーに

Cooking difficulty: LowVegan (if honey is not used)
For Women Fried Food Diet Taiwan Night Market Sweets

Description

Replacing tapioca starch with oatmeal in 'Digua Qiu (sweet potato balls)'—chewy fried sweets of sweet potato and starch—and baking in an oven (or air fryer) instead of frying.

Restaurants serving Oatmeal Sweet Potato Balls

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • Sweet potato
  • Oatmeal powder
  • Honey(or sweetener)
  • Veg oil

Instructions

  1. [Authentic Recipe]
  2. Steam (or microwave) sweet potato (Digua) soft, mash.
  3. Mix powdered oatmeal and a little honey (or zero-cal sweetener) into sweet potato, knead into earlobe-hard dough.
  4. Roll into bite-sized balls.
  5. Spray surface with a little oil, bake in air fryer (or oven) at 200°C for 10-
  6. mins until surface is crispy to finish.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips

Key spices

Intense sweet sweet potato aroma and baked grain savoriness

Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets

Purple sweet potato or taro (makes colorful balls)

Pairing

Black coffee、Unsweetened Taiwan tea

Trivia

[For Women] Doesn't 'puff up hollow like a balloon' like real Digua Qiu, but becomes a new texture sweet: crispy outside, fluffy inside. A fiber mass, not deep-fried, functioning as the best snack for dieting Taiwanese girls.

Eating tips & etiquette

[Unique Eating] Wrap a tiny bit of 'melting cheese' or 'pork floss (Rousong)' inside, making a surprise ball oozing 'sweet/saltiness' the moment you bite!

Allergen

Wheat (Oatmeal)

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