Steaming sweet potatoes takes about 15 to 20 minutes to cook through.

There are many ways to eat sweet potatoes, they can be eaten in porridge, baked, or steamed directly on the pot. If you want to steam sweet potatoes need 15 to 20 minutes, the size of the sweet potatoes will directly affect the steaming time. Larger sweet potatoes take longer to cook, while smaller ones cook faster. Therefore, it is best to cut the sweet potatoes into small pieces of the same size before steaming them.

After steaming, you can poke it with chopsticks. If the chopsticks can easily poke down from the top, it proves that the sweet potato is cooked. If the chopsticks can't poke down easily, the sweet potato is already cooked. If you can't poke it, you need to steam it for some more time. In fact, there is no hard and fast rule for the time of steaming sweet potatoes, because the size, quantity and properties of sweet potatoes are all different.

Tips for steaming sweet potatoes

1, cold water on the pot to steam

Many people say that steaming things must be boiled water after steaming, but sweet potatoes don't need to be, directly cold water on the pot to steam can be. This way, sweet potatoes can be steamed from inside to outside can be steamed through. So usually you are too much trouble, directly to the pot of sweet potatoes on the cold water to steam, steam for about 20 minutes, observe a little on it.

2, steamed with skin

Sweet potato outside a layer of skin, many people will shave off the skin and then put on the steamer, in fact, this is not good, because if there is not a layer of skin outside the package, the whole sweet potato steamed will be soft step, and too much water is not delicious. So it is recommended that you steam sweet potatoes, wash the outside layer of skin directly after the skin steam, so that the steamed sweet potatoes will be wrapped by the skin, the sweetness will be locked not to lose.