Vegan Sweet Potatoes Macaroons

'sweet potatoes macaroons fresh from refrigerator with mulberry topping'

 Last week, i have made this vegan sweet potatoes macaroons with simple ingredients that i can easily find in my pantry. For the mulberry topping, my dad planted the Morus tree for years, for old folks believe that the Morus leaf when boiled in water, and by drinking the leaf-infused water, can help to prevent & cure cancer, the drink also helps to release body heat which is very important in tropical country.  And as you know, mulberry has the sweet and sour taste, which is refreshing and they are really healthy with high vitamin C!          
                 

Ingredients:

4    palm size sweet potatoes 

1/3 cup unrefined organic brown sugar

1    tbs wheat flour

1    tbs corn flour

1    tbs all purpose flour

1/4 tsp salt

2    cup fresh shredded coconut

2    tbs ground flaxseed mixed with 6 tbs water

1/2 tsp virgin coconut oil                                                   

The making:

1) Peel off the sweet potatoes skin and soak in water. Then, slice the potatoes into cube to ease the steaming.

2) Steam for 20 minutes and smash the potatoes properly.

3) Hand-roll the smashed potatoes into 1 inch size ball. Put aside.

4) Mix in the salt, shredded coconut, wheat, corn and all purpose flour together. Mix well. 

5) Add in the flaxseed that already stired well with water and virgin coconut oil into the shredded coconut mixture and stir well until everything turn into a paste-like mixture.

6) Then wrap the ball shape sweet potatoes with the paste. Try to coat the potato just nice with the paste mixture.

7) Finally, roll them over the brown sugar. Try to likely coat them with sugar by spreading the sugar in large pan size plate.

8) Preheat the oven at 170degC and bake for 25 minutes.    

    Remark: I am using Sharp Healsio Water Oven, so you might want to adjust the baking time if you are using convection oven.   

'after short bake with oven'

I found that the macaroon is crunchy and chewy when fresh from oven. So if you kept the macaroons in refrigerator, you may want to bake it in your oven for a short while to make the coconut coating a bit crunchy & chewy before you enjoy the snack!