Thai Fried Tofu, Taro and Corn Cakes

We hope you'll try this recipe at home. The dipping sauce is delicious and can be enjoyed with any fried food or even spooned over jasmine rice. Frying small cakes and dumplings such as this are commonly offered by street vendors throughout Thailand. There are three recipes below as well as a dipping sauce recipe.

Ingredients, Fried Tofu

Hard (firm) tofu
Oil for deep frying

Method, Fried Tofu

Cut tofu into pieces (see pictures below). Deep fry until cooked, at least a few minutes. Ladle it onto a sheet, cut into smaller pieces and serve.

Ingredients, Fried Taro

1 lb taro
1 cup coconut milk
1 cup rice flour
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon white pepper powder
2 teaspoons sea salt
Oil for deep frying

Method, Fried Taro

Clean and peel taro then cut it to small and long pieces. Mix all purpose flour, rice flour and coconut milk. Mix until sticky. Then add salt, pepper powder, sugar and taro and blend it together. Deep fry pieces of this in hot oil. Wait until it's cooked, the color turns to gold. Cut into smaller pieces before serving.

Ingredients, Fried Corn Cakes

2 cups cooked corn, removed from cobb
3 tablespoons rice flour
4 tablespoons all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
2 cups water
Whole peppercorn
Cilantro stems (remove leaves)
Garlic
Oil for deep frying

Method, Fried Corn Cakes

Start by pounding whole peppercorn, coriander root and garlic together in a mortar and pestle to make about 1 tablespoon. Set aside. Pound corn in the mortar gently. Put all ingredients in a bowl and blend all ingredients. Deep fry pieces of this in hot oil. Wait until it's cooked, the color turns to gold.

Ingredients, Dipping Sauce

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup tamarind juice (mix 5 parts water to 2 parts tamarind concentrate to make tamarind juice)
1 teaspoon sea salt
The seeds of 10 fresh Thai chile peppers
3 tablespoons roasted peanuts, crushed in a mortar and pestle

Method, Dipping Sauce

Mix sugar, tamarind juice and salt then cook on low heat, and stir until sticky. Put in small bowl then add crushed peanuts and chile seeds.

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