Sugar-Frosted Taro (Fan Sha Yu Tou)
Cuisine: Chinese
Sugar-Frosted Taro (Fan Sha Yu Tou) is a home-style dessert at difficulty 3/5 (Intermediate), about 397 kcal. Ingredients and step-by-step instructions are below, with notes for home cooking.
Difficulty
3 / 5
★★★☆☆
Estimated Calories
397 kcal
Ingredients
- Lipu taro (easy to buy online, cheap and fresh)
- White sugar or rock sugar
- Water
- Scallions
Steps
- Cut the taro into long strips (a bit thick, so they don't fall apart while tossing).
- Add enough oil to cover the taro and heat it (it's ready when a chopstick dipped in forms small bubbles).
- Put the taro into the oil and fry until it floats, usually when it's lightly golden and a chopstick pokes through easily.
- Save the frying oil instead of wasting it; you can use it later for stir-frying.
- Now the key step: heat sugar (30 g) and water (15 g) in a 2:1 ratio until it stops changing color and forms small bubbles.
- Add the chopped scallions and taro, turn off the heat and toss; as it cools, the sugar will crystallize into a sandy coating.
- Plate and serve!
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Notes
Sugar-frosted taro is a traditional Chaoshan snack, crisp outside and soft inside, sweet and fragrant, often served with afternoon tea. Lipu taro is rich in dietary fiber, potassium and vitamins, and keeps you full for a long time. It isn't hard to make, but you need to control the sugar syrup's heat, so it suits beginners with a little experience. The whole process takes about 20 minutes.
Estimated difficulty: ★★★
Estimated calories: 397 kcal
Group: sugar-frosted taro
Quantities:
- Lipu taro 200 g
- White sugar 30 g
- Water 15 g
- Freshly made taro is very hot, so be careful not to burn your mouth.
- Pair it with tea... ah, pure bliss.