Homemade purple sweet potato powder preserves all the dry matter of purple sweet potato except the skin: protein, fat, sugar, vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber, etc. How to make purple sweet potato powder? What is the process of making purple sweet potato powder?
Wash the purple sweet potato, peel it and cut it into thin slices. Put the purple sweet potato into a stainless steel steamer, steam for 15 minutes, and cook the purple sweet potato. You can use chopsticks to pierce the purple sweet potato. If the purple sweet potato becomes soft and easy to pierce, it means it has been steamed. Crush the steamed purple sweet potatoes into puree with a spoon. The purple sweet potato puree must be fine and there should be no small pieces. When mothers do it themselves, they can knead it a little with their hands. Roll the purple sweet potato puree carefully. Place a layer of tin foil on a baking tray, add mashed purple potatoes, and cover it tightly with a layer of plastic wrap. When pressing the puree with the plastic bag covered, there will be no possibility of the mashed potato sticking to the spoon, and the purple potato puree will be pressed more neatly. First, use a spoon to spread the purple sweet potato puree on the cake mold. Then use a rolling pin to roll the purple sweet potato puree evenly. Roll it out as thinly as possible to reduce the time it takes to bake or dry. Roll the purple potato puree into thin purple potato chips.
Put the baking tray into the electric oven and bake at 100 degrees for about 90 minutes. The baking time is uncertain and is related to the thickness of the purple sweet potato puree and the moisture content in the purple sweet potato. Therefore, mothers must master the time by themselves, bake it slowly at ultra-low temperature, and bake the purple potato slices until they are soft! Moms who don’t have an oven can also put the purple sweet potato puree in a sunny place to dry, but it will take a long time. Bake it until it becomes dry and crispy like this, then break the purple potato slices into pieces with your hands. Only the broken purple potato chips can be beaten into smaller pieces.
Put the crushed purple sweet potato into a gourmet cup and stir into dry powder. The beating time is slightly longer, so that the purple sweet potato powder will be more fine. You can also sift the purple sweet potato flour and put the remaining very large particles back into the mixer to beat. The finer the powder, the better. Purple sweet potato powder is very suitable for making various steamed rice cakes, Hanamaki steamed buns, steamed buns, etc. It is also very suitable for putting into baby rice cereal to make various purple sweet potato pasta and snacks. Yes, not only the color is pleasing, but the taste is also fragrant.
And the prepared purple sweet potato powder can be stored in a dry baby food jar. It is really convenient to add nutrients anytime and anywhere!