How to eat sweet potato is more nutritious?
1. Avoid eating raw. Sweet potato is very popular in many places in the south. Sweet potato contains a lot of starch, which is difficult to digest raw. It is best to cook it. High temperature heating can also make soluble fiber easy to digest (digest food), shorten its sugar chain and increase the sweetness of sweet potato.
2. Avoid eating alone. Eat sweet potatoes with other cereals (cereals). If eaten alone, the content of protein (protein food) is low, which will lead to unbalanced nutrient intake.
3. It is actually more scientific to cut the sweet potato into pieces and cook it into porridge with rice. Eating too much will exhaust, which is why many people "stay away from sweet potatoes". Eating about 200 grams of sweet potato every time will generally not cause exhaust embarrassment. Eating rice and noodles, using pickles or drinking vegetable soup can also be avoided. Compared with white pulp, red pulp has higher nutritional value.
How to choose and preserve sweet potatoes?
When buying sweet potatoes, you should choose the ones with red flesh and dark color, which are rich in carotene. Sweet potatoes freeze easily and can't be kept in the refrigerator. Sweet potatoes should be stored in a dry environment at room temperature, and it is best to dry them in the sun before storage to remove water.
Recommend two sweet potato recipes:
First, sweet potato honey porridge
Ingredients: 500g sweet potato, honey 100 ml, 20 red dates, rock sugar and edible oil.
Exercise:
1. Wash, peel and cut sweet potatoes;
2. Wash the red dates, remove the core and cut into pieces;
3. Pour cooking oil into the wok, heat it, add sweet potatoes, fry until cooked, and take out the oil control;
4. Wash the original pot, add appropriate amount of water to boil, and add rock sugar to boil;
5. Add sweet potato and cook until the juice is thick. Add honey and jujube powder, mix well and cook for 5 minutes.
Second, osmanthus chestnut sweet potato soup
Ingredients: 2 sweet potatoes, fresh chestnuts 150g, dried osmanthus, rock sugar and water.
Exercise:
1. Peel and wash the sweet potato and cut it into small pieces. Peel the fresh chestnuts and cut them in half for later use. Rinse osmanthus fragrans with clear water to remove dust.
2. Put the sweet potatoes and chestnuts into the pot together, add enough water until all the ingredients are submerged, and cook for a quarter of an hour on high fire until the sweet potatoes and chestnuts are soft;
3. Add appropriate amount of rock sugar and sweet-scented osmanthus to taste, and turn to low heat for 5 minutes.
Cooking skills:
When fresh chestnuts are shelled, it is easy to see that the skin inside is difficult to peel off. At this time, you might as well boil a pot of boiling water, pour the chestnuts in and cover them for a while, and then take them out to cool, so that you can peel the chestnuts easily.
Ladies and gentlemen, sweet potatoes look full. Don't have the illusion that you will get fat after eating. Eating right can detoxify and lose weight! Remember, don't put sweet potatoes in the refrigerator, and don't eat more. The right amount is the right amount!