KALINGKING [ Crispy Sweet Potato Fritters ]
Monday, 26 June 2006 | By Mike | Category: Asian, Desserts, Filipino / Pinoy, Glorious Food, Pinoy Food, SnacksOne of my overdue posts . . . Something I also wanted to include in my entry to Lasang Pinoy 10 . . . A simple delicacy that supposedly originated from Batanes province [ islands ], in the northern Philippines.
Ingredients:
1 kilo Sweet Potatoes [ Kamote ]
3/4 cup Brown sugar
3 cups Rice flour or all-purpose flour
1 cup Water
1 1/2 cups Oil for deep frying
Method:
Peel sweet potatoes and cut into short and thin strips. Soak kamote strips in a bowl of water with ice while doing this process. [ Soaking the kamote strips in ice will produce crispier fritters. ]
Prepare batter by mixing flour and sugar in a bowl of water. Mix well. Remove kamote from iced water, drain excess water. Add sweet potatoes to the batter and mix until well-coated.
Heat oil in a frying pan. Scoop about 3 tablespoons of the mixture into a shallow saucer. Flatten and slip into hot oil. Fry until golden brown and crispy.
That’s a nice one. Thanks for the tip about soaking sweet potato strips in ice.
hi krithika, my pleasure! thanks for visiting my blog too . . .
hey, I didn’t know this was called kalingking? I used to have them in sticks and we call them camote cue..LOL
ting, i didn’t know too until recently while googling for something . . . i have been trying to reach a friend who hails from batanes to verify this . . . my mother used to cook this when we were kids, as well as the ‘tusok-tusok’ chunky cuts version called camote cue . . . :-D
hi! m from bicol and in our place we call it the same Kalingking…m so happy to see this coz it’s my fave merienda! there’s an old lady who have a stall in the marketwho sells this along with camote cue nd baduya (maruya) when it’s 2 p.m. she would open her stall and people started lining up nd believe me by 5 it’s all sold! she was famous in our town for making such yummy merienda! dunnoifshe’s still doing it, hope she passes it to her kids! thanks for the recipe! m gonna try it for merienda!
Thanks Its been a good succeess of our presentation of cooking this kalinking.