I bought purple sweet potatoes in our neighbourhood community wet market. We love steamed sweet potatoes for it's natural sweetness and it's quite filling too. I do baked them with tiny bit of salt and enjoy with fresh greens. This time i decided to make kuih or tea time snack. We had kuih keria gula melaka in Malacca a historical city in southern part of the country and i want to make it with purple sweet potato instead of orange sweet potato.
I have a big packet of pure palm sugar bought in Malacca. Unlike, the fake version which is hard and easily melted, the genuine palm sugar are soft enough to break with bare hands. It has flavor of palm syrup and not too sweet. You may make sugar syrup with it to drizzle over your desserts or as a sweettener in your beverages.
I love the bright purple colur of this kuih keria. It's natural without any artificial coluring. The contrast of dark palm sugar and the purple of the kuih are something to marvel at. It's firm interior of the well coated sugar coating and soft sweet potato are indeed a great tea time snack.
Ingredients
500g purple sweet potatoes
5 tbsp all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
For The Glaze
1/2 cup chopped palm sugar
1/3 cup water
Methods
Steam sweet potatoes till soft. Peel and mash using fork or potato masher.
Add flour and salt. Mix to combine. Lightly dust your hand with flour and divide the dough into equal sized balls. Shape each balls into a shape of doughnut.
Heat oil in a pan and fry till golden brown. Transfer to a plate lined with kitchen towel to absorp excess oil.
For The Glaze
In a pan add water and palm sugar. Boil till the sugar completely melted. Keep boiling till thickened and bubling. Turn off heat and add the doughnuts into the sugar syrup. Stir till the doughnuts are well coated with sugar syrup.
Transer to a serving plate.
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