Impossible^TM Lotus Root Fritters Recipe

The Lotus Root is one of the oldest cultivated food plants in human history. Records of its cultivation have been found as far as 3,000 years ago. So this is not an exotic, newfangled food. It’s an ancient part of cooking throughout India and most of the rest of Asia. Just as it sounds, it is the root of the lotus plant, the national flower of India and Vietnam. Working with a lotus root is roughly like working with a potato. In other words, you’ll need to peel it and clean it. Any dark spots can be cut off, just like a potato. The other ingredients to pay attention to here are dried Chinese mushrooms, Chinese celery and spring onion. Chinese celery is flavorful throughout and you should definitely include the leaves in the recipe when chopping it up, unlike regular celery. Also, remember, a spring onion is neither a large scallion nor a small white onion. It’s a sweeter-tasting white onion that is roughly the size of a golf ball. What you’ll be making here is, essentially, a Lotus root sandwich. This is where the Impossible™ Burger comes in. The Lotus root slices will form the outer parts of the sandwich and the Impossible Burger will form the basis of the filling. While this recipe calls for eggs to help form the filling, there is a fully plant-based alternative available to you in the recipe. We’ve included a quick mix you can make with ground flaxseed and water if you don’t want to use eggs, which will serve as the binding agent in place of the eggs.