Monday, December 12, 2011

[Chinese New Year Cookies] Deep Fried Arrowhead Chips

Arrowhead chips have been popular in Malaysia for several years, especially during chinese new years. It is difficult to stop your mouth once you tried it.

Ingredients:
2kg Arrowhead
1Liter  Deep Friying Oil
Method:
Peel the arrowhead and keep them in the refrigerator for overnight.Take the arrowhead from refrigerator and leave it at room temperature for 1 hour. Prepare the vegetable slicer as shown.Heat up the deep frying oil in a deep pot and bring it to 160 degree Celcuis, and change to low heat immediately once it reach.
Slice the arrowhead into oil directly.When the arrowhead is sliced to almost at top, hold the tail of arrowhead to finish till end.There will be a lot of bubbles when the arrow head are deep fried at the beginning.
Use the bamboo stick to keep the arrowhead apart to each other.When the color arrowhead start changing from white to golden brown, it is ready to remove the arrowhead. Remove the arrowhead from deep pot.
Drain on kitchen towel to remove excess oil.Lower the heat further if the edge of arrowhead became dark brown when start deep frying.

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2 comments:

  1. May I know why the arrowhead has to be kept overnight before it can be fried?

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    1. @J.C., it will made the arrowhead drier so that it will more crispy. ^^

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