Steps to Prepare Quick Hakkan Abacus (Suan Pan Zi)

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Abacus seed is a traditional Hakka dish made with yam that is usually eaten during festivals because signifies wealth. Finally, I got the chance to learn how to make suan pan zi from my gu ma who prepares them every Chinese New Year. This was actually the first dish I learnt how to make from my grandmother-in-law, and since then I've been making it at ours, each time a little differently. This week, Hedy teaches a recipe for Hakka abacus seeds or suan pan zi.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have hakkan abacus (suan pan zi) using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Hakkan Abacus (Suan Pan Zi):

1. Prepare Yam (Taro) sliced
2. Make ready Topical flour
3. Prepare Salt
4. Prepare Water
5. Take Black fungus
6. Take Pork belly (sliced)
7. Make ready Dried mushrooms
8. Prepare Dried shrimps
9. Prepare Garlic
10. Get 1 tpbs soya sauce
11. Get Pepper
12. Take 1 tpbs sesame oil

Suan pan zi dough is made with mashed taro, tapioca flour/starch, salt, and boiling water. The only special flour you need is tapioca flour/starch, which nowadays you can easily find pretty much in mainstream grocery stores. You don't even need to go to an Asian grocery. Get the recipe for Suan Pan Zi (Hakka Yam Abacus Seeds).

Steps to make Hakkan Abacus (Suan Pan Zi):

1. Steam yam over high heat until soft (20min), Add tapioca flour and salt. Mash the yam immediately after steam
2. Mix the yam until completely combined with the topcial flour and not sticky. The dough is ready when it no longer feels sticky to touch
3. Pour topical flour at the surface. Roll to a long dough and cut into small slices. Roll each slices into a ball. Hold the ball and gently press the ball to make a pressure in the centre to look like an abacus seed. Do the same for the rest.
4. Boil water in the Pot or wok, Place the small abacus dough in the boiling water and stir to ensure they are don't stick to the bottom.
5. At the sametime, fill a big bowl with tap water. The abacus pieces are cooked once they float to the surface. scoop them up and transfer to the basin of water. Once the abacus seeds are cooled, remove from water and place in a plate. Drizzle some oil (if you are cooking next, else cooled it down and keep in the freezer without adding oil) to cook from freezer bring the abacus to boil again and bring up for cooling and than ready to cook.
6. Add oil to pan, stir fry the mushroom and dried shrimp individually and put a side.
7. Stir fry: add oil to pan, add the pork belly (5-8min) bring it up, use the same oil and add in garlic.
8. Add in dried shrimps, mushroom and pork belly (mix well for 2min) add the abacus pieces (mix well)
9. Add in soya sauce, sesame oil, pepper and 2tpbs water (mix well)
10. Cover the lid and let it cook for 5-8min (stir inbetween) ready to served.

You don't even need to go to an Asian grocery. Get the recipe for Suan Pan Zi (Hakka Yam Abacus Seeds). Add tapioca flour and a few pinches of salt to the cooked yam and mash immediately. Suan Pan Zi - Free download as Word Doc (.doc), PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. food. My Mum prefer a more yam fragrance flavour, yam abacus seeds.

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