Name: Spiced Fried Lotus Root Box
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: Some Minced pork; Some Fresh lotus root; Some egg; Some Flour; Some Baking powder; Some starch; Some Soy sauce; Some Cooking Wine; Some ginger; Some shallot; Some White pepper; Some Five spice powder; Some Vegetable oil

Spiced Fried Lotus Root Box

by Eyebrow delicacy

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

15m

Serving

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that raw lotus root is sweet in taste, cold in nature, and enters the heart, spleen, and stomach meridians;
It can clear away heat, promote body fluid, cool blood, dispel blood stasis, invigorate the spleen, appetite, and stop diarrhea;
Cure fever, polydipsia, vomiting blood, blemishes, hot showers.
Cooked lotus root is warm in nature and sweet in taste, beneficial to the stomach and spleen, nourishing blood and replenishing, strengthening muscles, and antidiarrheal functions;
Indications of lung heat, cough, irritability and thirst, spleen deficiency, diarrhea, loss of appetite and various blood syndromes.

Therefore, if you have oral ulcers and other symptoms of fire, you can cook ribs lotus root soup or lotus root glutinous rice porridge.

How to choose lotus root
1. To eat lotus root, choose the yellow-brown skin, thick and white flesh.
2. If it is dark and has peculiar smell, it is not suitable for consumption.
3. It is better to choose the lotus root with short joints and thick lotus root. The second lotus root from the tip of the lotus root is the best. "

Spiced Fried Lotus Root Box

1. Add salt, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, cooking wine, white pepper, and chopped green onion and ginger to the pork filling and marinate for 20 minutes.

2. Add flour, starch, a little baking powder, an egg, appropriate amount of water, five-spice powder and salt to a large bowl and whisk evenly with a manual whisk, and then add 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and stir evenly for later use.

3. Peel the lotus root and cut into thicker slices.

4. The two pieces of lotus root are glued together with meat filling between them.

5. Heat up the pot and add a little more vegetable oil. When the oil temperature reaches 70% hot, roll the lotus root box in the adjusted paste, and then put it in the pot and fry it until golden brown.

6. Finished picture

Tips:
1. When adjusting the flour starch paste, the ratio of flour to starch is 1:1, and water should be added gradually until it reaches a satisfactory level.
2. Adding baking powder to the batter can make the finished product crisper on the outside and tender on the inside.