Boiled sweet potatoes cooking time is with the size of the sweet potatoes and change, generally cut the sweet potatoes into evenly sized 1 cm pieces, usually after the water is boiled and cooked for about 10 minutes on the good; but if the whole sweet potatoes to cook, the general palm size of the sweet potatoes, the water is boiled on the high heat, you need to cook for 15-20 minutes will be cooked through.

To determine whether the sweet potato is cooked, you can use a chopstick to poke in from the surface of the sweet potato, such as the smooth poke through the sweet potato, on behalf of the sweet potato is ripe, such as can not be needed depending on the circumstances of the cooking for another 1-5 minutes or so.

Cooking sweet potatoes with water is simple and convenient, just put the cleaned sweet potatoes directly into the water, generally with the water put in the cooking rice is almost the same, as long as the water is not over the surface of the sweet potatoes, such as worrying about their own forgetting to cook for too long, you can add more water, but not less than the amount of water not over the amount of water in the sweet potatoes, because this amount of water basically ensure that the sweet potatoes are cooked and there is also a small amount of water, to avoid drying out the pot, scorched paste! The phenomenon of dry pot and burnt paste can be avoided.

Whether to peel and cut sweet potatoes

Depending on the method of consumption. If the boiled sweet potato is made into sugar water, you need to first wash the sweet potato peeled and cut into pieces, so that it is convenient to eat flavor, if the boiled sweet potato whole directly to eat, it is only necessary to wash the surface soil, put into the water to cook can be, do not need to go ahead of the peeled and cut into pieces.

Otherwise, the sugar in the sweet potato will be lost to the water, eating is not so tasty, in addition to the boiled sweet potato skin taste bad, such as cooking time did not peel, then it is best to peel before eating.