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How long can sweet potato be cooked by steaming? There are three main ways to cook sweet potato: roasting, steaming and boiling. It's the season when sweet potatoes are on the market in large quantities. Which kind of sweet potato do you like best? Let's have a look.

How long can sweet potato be steamed

How long can the sweet potato be steamed? It usually takes about half an hour. Of course, it depends on the specific situation. The quantity, temperature and size of sweet potato will affect the time. Give an example:

Ingredients: 1000 g sweet potato, hot water

Practice:

1. Wash the skin of sweet potato, cut off both ends, and gouge out the uneven part of the skin.

2. Put the electric pressure cooker into the hot water, about 1.5cm high, into the steaming drawer, put the cleaned sweet potato on the drawer, cover the drawer, press the raft, timed for 20 minutes, and then open it for 10 minutes after being discouraged.

3. If it is an ordinary high-pressure boiler, after pressing the valve, turn off the fire after the fire is opened and the air is blown. After braising until the gas is exhausted naturally, turn on the fire, air-jet, turn off the fire, deflate, and repeat twice.

4. If you use a common steamer, steam it for 5 minutes in high heat, then steam it for 10 minutes in low heat, and then steam it to sweet potato in high heat. You can easily insert chopsticks.

Tips:

1. You can't use sweet potatoes with black spots. Even if they are cut off, they can't be steamed. It's hard to steam well, but it always has a mildewy taste. It's bitter and hard, and it's hard to swallow. Don't be reluctant to give up such sweet potatoes, otherwise, it will 'spoil a pot of soup'.

How to find out whether the sweet potato has black spots? In fact, it's very simple. Before steaming the sweet potato, brush the surface of the sweet potato with a brush, then cut off the two ends of the sweet potato with a knife to expose the flesh of the sweet potato, and then gouge out the uneven places on the surface. If no black spots are found, the sweet potato can be safely eaten.

2. No matter the pressure cooker turns off the fire and gets discouraged, or the common steamer changes to the slow fire, the main purpose is to keep the water in the cooker warm without boiling. Because when the amylase in sweet potato is about 60 ℃, it can make starch change into sugar quickly. In this way, the cooked sweet potatoes will be more sweet, sticky, soft and delicious.

3. Must fire, hot water, let the sweet potato skin in a short time to steam into half cooked, so that the sweet taste of the steamed sweet potato.

4. It is best to choose sweet potatoes of the same size to ensure that they are well cooked at the same time. If the sweet potato is big, it can be steamed for a longer time, or it can be divided into small pieces and steamed again.

How to steam sweet potato quickly

1. Peel and wash the sweet potato. Section.

2. Cut one of the small sweet potatoes into small strips. Put 1-2 small strips and small pieces between each two pieces to achieve the effect of separation.

4. Sometimes when steaming flakes of food, each piece adheres to each other and is not easy to be steamed. In this way, put the small sweet potatoes in the middle of the sweet potato slices. In this way, the steamed sweet potatoes will not be undercooked. This method can also be used to steam other flake foods.

How to steam sweet potatoes

1. Ordinary electric rice cooker, add cold water into the electric rice cooker, the water should not be too deep, about 3cm is enough, which can also save time, and put into the matching steamer of the electric rice cooker.

2. Wash the sweet potato. If you don't like to steam it with the skin, peel it with a peeler. Sweet potato skin is not sweet, but it contains high crude fiber. If you want to treat constipation, you can keep the sweet potato skin. If you want to taste good, you'd better cut it off.

3. Put the whole sweet potato into the steamer. If you think the whole sweet potato is too big, you can cut it into small sections. After putting the sweet potato into the steamer, the electric rice cooker can cook it for half an hour.

Method 2: ordinary steamer

1. Boil the water in the pot, or after steaming the steamer, immediately put the white potato into the pot or the steamer, so that the surface of the white potato is half cooked in a short time,

2. Use Wenhuo instead to keep the water in the pot warm without boiling. Because the amylase in sweet potato can promote starch to turn into sugar quickly when it is about 60 ℃. In this way, after cooking for 10 minutes, and then cooking with high fire, white potatoes will be more sweet, sticky, soft and delicious.

Method 3: microwave oven

1. First, wash the sweet potato, so that there will be water on the surface of the sweet potato, then use the fresh-keeping bag to pack the sweet potato, seal it, and turn it for 5 minutes with high and medium heat (4 minutes for the smaller ones, 8 minutes for the larger ones).

2. Take it out and press it by hand. If it is not soft, turn it for another 2-3 minutes.

3. If it's soft, go to the fresh-keeping bag and turn it on medium heat for about 3 minutes. In this way, the sweet potato baked in the microwave oven and the sweet potato bought outside are of the same taste, which is much better than the sweet potato cooked by you. Of course, if you buy sweet potatoes with hearts, if you don't buy them well, you won't find them delicious no matter how you bake them.