Lotus Seed Paste

🥘 Ingredients

• dried split lotus seeds 2 cup
• water for the soak 6 cup
• water for the simmer 8 cup
• rock sugar 1 ¼ cup
• maltose syrup 2 Tbs
• fine sea salt ¼ tsp
• peanut oil 0.33 cup

1. 1

   Soak dried split lotus seeds in water for the soak 4 hr , then open each seed and flick out the green germ down its middle.
2. 2

   Drain @&( timer , cover them with water for the simmer and 60 min until a seed collapses under the back of a spoon with no resistance at all.
3. 3

   Blend @&( timer with a ladle of their own cooking water until there is no grain left in it.
4. 4

   Fry @&( timer in a wok with rock sugar , maltose syrup and fine sea salt , working in peanut oil a spoonful at a time and waiting for each to be taken up, 30 min until the paste pulls away from the wok in one mass.
5. 5

   Cool @&( timer 1 hr .