It’s a very versatile sauce that would work well for pastas and salads, or a dip for fries, or just eat it up straight. I also loved how the broccoli florets gave some texture to the sauce. I suppose this recipe would work better with other milder flours that would not mask the flavours of the yam or sweet potato.īut one thing is definitely a keeper, the broccoli sauce! If you love tahini and hemp, this one is definitely worth a try. The sweet potato gnocchis were better in taste (sweeter), but the texture was slightly too soft. Nevertheless, they were not exactly fantastic the buckwheat flavour was too strong. Truthfully I never had Italian gnocchi before so I don’t have a basis for comparison to these yam gnocchis. And we know the combination of tahini + hemp seeds work magic! The dressing was conceived out of an overdue need to use a week’s old broccoli. I had some leftover sweet potatoes so I decided to try out a sweet potato gnocchi too. So I combined the idea of a classic Italian gnocchi with the bead shape of yam abacus. However the traditional yam abacus dish can be a tad oily, though the idea of the “bead” shape was cute. They are usually stir-fried with garlic, shrimp, mushrooms and/or minced pork. Yam abacus may be also be called the Chinese gnocchi, but being made from tapioca flour instead of wheat flour, the difference is that they have a bouncy chewy texture. In Chinese Hakka cuisine, it is often made into a dish called yam abacus beads, so named because they are shaped after the beads that make up the Chinese abacus. The taro is much starchier and less sweet than the sweet potatoes. Taros have a light purplish hue with grey undertones, while purple sweet potatoes and ube are dark purple. Apart from being totally different in shape and texture, they also differ in colour. To put things scientifically straight, a yam or taro is a large underground stem and is technically a tuber, while sweet potatoes are storage roots and do not have “eyes”. Just writing this is making my brain hurt! The latter is often befuddled with the Japanese purple sweet potato (Okinawan purple yam). Furthermore the yam lexicon also includes the true yam and the purple yam or ube. And what most would know as yam is in Singapore, confusingly called the sweet potato. In coming up with this dish, I learnt that what we call a yam is actually known to most as taro. Not only do we have our own local parlance called Singlish, we name ingredients using the most confusing terminology that would baffle the rest of the world. Pillows of yammy bites cloaked in a textured broccoli sauce redolent of tahini and hemp, uplifted with a touch of zesty lemon.
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