Yam Abacus

Thanks to the big adverts from Ying Ker Lou, I had been wanting to attempt making Yam Abacus. Finally today, I got all the ingredients from the wet market and manage to make that for dinner.

For the abacus:

Ingredients:

• 211g yam (steamed till soft and mashed with the fork)
• 75g tapioca flour
• 60g warm water
• 1 teaspoon cooking oil
• a pinch of salt
• a teaspoon of sugar
• a pot of boiling water
• shallot oil

Steps:

1. Mixed all the ingredients till even and till it forms a soft looking dough, slightly dry.
2. Take a small pinch, roughly a teaspoon amount of the dough, roll it round n give it a pinch, set aside.
3. Boiled in a pot of boiling water, drain off when floating.
4. Spoon roughly a table spoon of fried shallot with some oil on the abacus so that they dont stick together.

For the frying stuff ingredients:

• a tablespoon of minced garlic
• 4 tablespoon of dried shrimps, soaked and chopped
• a handful of julienned carrot
• a handful of julienned black fungus
• 3 tablespoon of minced meat (marinated with salt, pepper, rice wine, corn flour and oyster sauce)
• a dash of fish sauce
• 1 handful of chopped parsley
• 1 teaspoon of oil
• 1 tablespoon of water
• a dash of pepper
• a pinch of sugar

Steps:

1. Stir fry the dried shrimps along with the minced garlic till golden brown.
2. Add in the carrot and fungus.
3. Add in the minced meat and stir fry, add in the water too.
4. Season with fish sauce, pepper and sugar
5. Add in the abacus. slightly fry and dish out. 
6. Served with the chopped parsley.