How to Prepare Perfect Sweet Potato & Lotus Hot Salad

Sweet Potato & Lotus Hot Salad. Sweet potatoes during the holidays are a must in our household. This time I decided to do something different other than a casserole or a pie. I used white sweet potatoes, but any sweet potatoes will do.

The sweet potato or sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots are a root vegetable. The young leaves and shoots are sometimes eaten as greens. You can have Sweet Potato & Lotus Hot Salad using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sweet Potato & Lotus Hot Salad

1. It's 200 grams of Sweet Potato.
2. It's 150 grams of Lotus.
3. It's As needed of Potato Starch.
4. Prepare 3 tbsp of Cooking Oil.
5. You need of <Sauce>.
6. You need 2 tbsp of Soy Sauce.
7. It's 2 tbsp of Sugar.
8. You need 1 tbsp of Vinegar.
9. You need 1 tsp of Black Sesame Seed.

The sweet potato is not closely related to the common potato (Solanum tuberosum).. Sweet potatoes are available year-round, but their flavor peaks in the fall and winter. Alton recommends choosing specimens that are heavy for their size and free of any soft spots or sprouts. Sweet potato fries are also tasty, but don't eat them often.

Sweet Potato & Lotus Hot Salad instructions

1. Cut the sweet potato into 1cm thick. Then put into the water for 5 minutes. Drain the water and wipe it by a paper towel well. Dust with Potato Starch..
2. Cut the Lotus into 1cm thick. Dust with Potato Starch..
3. Put all Sauce ingredients in a bowl and mix it well..
4. Heat 3tbsp the Cooking Oil in a frying pan. And fry the Sweet Potato until golden brown. Put the cooked Sweet Potato in a dish..
5. Use the same frying pan. Fry the Lotus until golden brown. (If the cooking oil is not enough, add 1 tbsp.).
6. Wipe off excess oil from Fillets with a paper towel well. Put in all sauce ingredients, and move the frying pan over the heat until the sauce covers the Sweet Potato and Lotus..

Baked sweet potatoes are the perfect, healthy side dish in the fall months. I like to simply eat it with some butter on top, a little goes a long way or try it with coconut oil to keep it dairy free. To save calories, omit all together and try sprinkling on cinnamon, cumin, chili powder or even pumpkin spice.. Go for thinner, uniform sweet potatoes. Although you may be tempted to pick the more meatier potato, thinner sweet potatoes will cook evenly all the way through to the center.