Before boiling the sweet potato, boil the water in the pot, and use the time to boil the water to wash the sweet potato with the skin. When the pot is boiled, put the whole sweet potato into the pot, peel the whole sweet potato before cooking, and cut the whole sweet potato into pieces before cooking.

Cooking sweet potatoes with boiling water is a rule that must be followed. When cooking a whole sweet potato, there is not much difference between boiling water and cold water, but if you cut it into pieces, you must cook it with boiling water. Otherwise, the sweet potato you cooked may not only turn black, but also seriously affect the taste and taste of sweet potatoes.

Step 2, add auxiliary materials

After the sweet potato is put into the pot, we can also add a little baking soda into the pot, which is the secret of cooking sweet potato in the restaurant, which can make the sweet potato look fuller, taste fragrant and sweet, and taste very soft.

if you want the cooked sweet potato to be more sweet and delicious, you can also put some sugar or honey in the pot at this time, and the cooked sweet potato will be more delicious.

Step 3, cook slowly on low heat

After the pot is boiled again, it can be changed to low heat, so cook slowly for about 2 minutes, and insert the sweet potato with chopsticks. If it can penetrate easily, it means it is cooked. If you want to eat something softer and glutinous, you can continue to cook for about 1 minutes.

The reason for cooking sweet potatoes with low fire is to leave enough working time for amylase in sweet potatoes to convert some starch into sugars such as glucose, which is also the key trick to make sweet potatoes sweeter and softer.