How long can sweet potato be steamed
How long can sweet potato be steamed? The general time is 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 it, press the raft for 20min, open it for 10min 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 over high heat for 5 minutes, then steam it over low heat for 10 minutes, and then steam it over high heat until the sweet potato can be easily inserted into chopsticks.
Tips:
1. It is not allowed to use sweet potatoes with black spots. Even if they are cut off, they are mostly 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 potato, otherwise, it will "break a pot of soup".
How to find out whether sweet potatoes have black spots? In fact, it's very simple. Before steaming the sweet potato, brush the surface of the sweet potato with a brush, cut off the two ends of the sweet potato with a knife, expose the flesh of the sweet potato, and 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. Make sure to steam the skin of sweet potato into half cooked in a short time with high temperature and hot water, so that the steamed sweet potato tastes sweet.
4. It is better to select sweet potatoes of the same size to ensure that they are ripe 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 piece of sweet potato 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 flaky 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.