Cook sweet potatoes for 10-25 minutes.

The length of time it takes for sweet potatoes to cook is related to the way they are cooked. Usually with a pressure cooker to cook sweet potatoes, is 10-13 minutes to cook, the flavor is good, can retain the original sweet flavor. If you cook it in a pot with water at home, it takes 20-25 minutes to cook, and it doesn't taste good and is not as sweet as it should be. To see if the sweet potatoes are cooked, you can use a chopstick to insert the sweet potatoes, if it can be inserted, without encountering obstacles, it is cooked, there is another way is to poke the skin of the sweet potatoes, if it is sunken, very soft, it means that the sweet potatoes are also cooked.

When a whole sweet potato is boiled, the center of the heart is difficult to cook, sometimes the outside layer is cooked, but the inside is still raw, this time you can cut the sweet potato into several small pieces, each piece of heat evenly, the sweet potato is cooked fast.

Precautions for cooking sweet potatoes

1, sweet potatoes don't peel

First of all, we have to pick the right sweet potatoes, it is best to use sweet potatoes that are basically the same size to ensure that they are cooked together when cooked, not half-cooked. Put the sweet potato into the water to clean, never the sweet potato skin to it, sweet potato skin can be very good to protect the sweet potato inside, so that the nutrients will not be lost, the taste will be more sweet.

2, cut off the end of the head and tail

Cleaned after the sweet potato, do not directly under the pot to cook, to the sweet potato head and tail cut down a little bit, almost a centimeter so much can be. Cut off can let the sweet potato internal heat quickly, cooked out of the better taste, but also easier to cook.

3, boiling water

When cooking sweet potatoes, do not cold water in the pot, you should wait for the water to boil and then put the sweet potatoes into the pot. This can firmly lock the sweet potato in the sweet flavor, eating will be particularly sweet, cooking time is also relatively short. If you use cold water to cook in the pot, the cooking time is long, and the sweet potatoes are not delicious.