Kratong Cocktail Cups

Name: Kratong Cocktail Cups
Yield: Makes around 30 Cups
Cuisine: Thailand
Ingredients: 90 g/3 oz plain flour; 90 g/3 oz rice flour; oil for frying; 2 cups cold water

Preparation info

Makes around
30 Cups

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Leaves from The Walnut Tree

By Ann Taruschio and Franco Taruschio

Published 1993

About

Kratong are little batter cups which originate in Thailand. A pie tee mould looks like a mini fluted fairy cake tin on a long handle. To speed up the process of making these cups, 4-cup pie tee moulds can be bought from most Thai grocers.

Ingredients

90 g/3 oz rice flour
90 g/3

Asia
Thailand
Starter
Spicy
Southeast Asia

Method

Add the water gradually to the sifted flours, stirring until smooth. Heat vegetable oil for deep-frying and dip a pie tee mould into the hot oil for a couple of seconds or so. Remove the mould from the oil and immediately dip it into the batter. Do not allow batter to get inside the mould. Then dip the mould back into the oil and fry until the batter cups are crisp. Gently remove the cups from