QQ Sweet Potato Balls

I was watching a travel show on TV featuring the night markets of Taiwan, one of the foods that the host tried looks really appetizing. It's called "QQ黃金地瓜球" , literally translated to be "QQ golden sweet potato ball".  QQ means chewy but doesn't stick to teeth.  I searched the web for the recipe.  There were quite a few recipes, and I tried a couple of them.  Unfortunately, they are came out really chewy and sticky, not very good.  With the remaining sweet potato available, I decided to experiment and create my own recipe, and to my surprise, it worked!  Crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside, yum!

This is a great recipe to do with your kids, so give this great snack a try!

Ingredients:
100 grams of Cooked Sweet Potatoes
20 grams of granulated sugar or brown sugar
40 grams of Sweet Rice Flour
20 grams of Tapioca Flour
1/4 teaspoon of Baking Powder
2 cups of oil (for frying)

Directions:
1.  Sliced the sweet potatoes and steamed for 15 minutes until soft.
2.  In a large bowl, first weight the sweet potatoes and then the sugar.
3.  While the sweet potatoes still hot, finely mashed together with the sugar.  Then add in the remaining ingredients.  Continue to mixed until it became a dough. The dough should be very smooth and quite firm, not sticky.
4.  Divide the dough into 1/2 inch pieces and roll into small balls, size of a glass marble ball.
5.  Pour oil into a wok or deep frying pan, depending on the size of the balls, they should be completely submerge beneath the oil.
6.  Add the balls into the pan at low to medium heat, about 150°F, let it fry for 3 minutes, when they start to flow, use a large slotted ladle to gently press on them until they double in size, about 3 minutes.
7.  Turn the heat on high and let them continue to fry for another 1 minute.  Remove from oil and drained over paper towel.  The balls should have a crispy crust and not greasy at all.
8.  I know you can't wait to try but let them cool for 5 minutes before serving.  You don't want to burn your tongue with it :-)