Steamed sweet potatoes

1. Buy some fresh sweet potatoes. The more delicious types include Liuao sweet potatoes, watermelon red, Yanshu No. 25, Yunnan golden potatoes, etc. When buying, be sure to pay attention and choose sweet potatoes that are intact and have kakashi skins. They are relatively fresh and easy to store.

2. When you buy sweet potatoes, don’t cook them first. Store them in a cool place with natural ventilation. In our house, we put them directly on the balcony to let the water vapor in the sweet potatoes disperse. As the moisture content decreases, the sugar content increases. , so that the sweet potatoes will be sweeter, the sugar juice will flow out when cooked, and the texture will be softer and waxier. Sweet potatoes only need to be stored for a week, suitable for roasting and steaming.

3. Put the sweet potatoes into clean water, and use a rag to clean the soil in the outer skin. Steamed sweet potatoes can be eaten with the skin, and the nutritional content of the sweet potato skin is very high, so the outer skin must be To clean it.

4. There is no need to peel sweet potatoes. After peeling, sweet potatoes will absorb a lot of water. When eaten, the steamed smell will be very strong, and the taste will be loose and not soft and waxy. Also, don't cut it open and steam it, as it won't taste good either.

5. Just use a knife to cut a little on both sides of the sweet potato. There are more tendons on both sides and the taste is poor, so cut it off and heat it quickly after cutting. Find a wooden skewer and poke some small holes in the sweet potato, so it will heat up quickly.

6. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot. I usually put it into the rice cooker and cook it together with the white rice. Once it boils, steam it for 20 minutes and then take it out and finish it.

Steamed sweet potatoes have a soft, glutinous texture and sweet taste. They are more delicious than roasted sweet potatoes, and they don’t make your hands dirty. Roasted sweet potatoes are often delicious because the Maillard reaction occurs, forming toffee. Steamed sweet potatoes at temperatures around 120°C can also produce Maillard reaction and are still very sweet. Summary of methods

The first is that sweet potatoes do not need to be peeled. The second is to cut off both sides of the sweet potato. The third step is to prick the surface of the sweet potatoes, and the steamed sweet potatoes will be delicious. When buying sweet potatoes, the best choices are red-heart and yellow-heart, which taste sweeter, while white-heart sweet potatoes are not that sweet but are delicious. Red-heart and yellow-heart sweet potatoes are generally consumed immediately, while white-heart sweet potatoes have high starch content and are generally used to obtain sweet potato starch or produce and process sweet potato vermicelli.