How can dried sweet potatoes be soft and waxy?

Sweet potato with red hearts and high sugar content, observe the weather for a week.

Many people think that the practice of dried sweet potatoes is relatively simple, that is, steaming and drying. Actually, dried sweet potatoes are not directly dried. There are some tips in the production process. If you haven't noticed, dried sweet potatoes are either black in color or hard to bite.

Let's share the skills of two dried sweet potatoes and understand that dried sweet potatoes are soft and chewy, not hard or black.

Method for making dried sweet potato

Step 1: Prepare some fresh sweet potatoes, clean up the mud on the surface, then peel off the skin, then remove both ends of the sweet potatoes, and then cut them into thick strips. Remember to cut the strips coarsely, because when they are dry, the volume will shrink. If they are too thin, they will dry easily and affect the taste.

Small sweet potatoes don't need to be cut, but they can also be directly steamed and dried, which tastes sweeter.

Step 2: Put the cut sweet potato strips into a large pot, add water until the sweet potato strips are not covered, then add 2 tablespoons of salt, stir until the salt melts, then soak the sweet potato in salt water for 15 minutes, and take it out to dry.

Step 3: add water to the steamer to boil. After the water is boiled, put the sweet potato strips on the steaming curtain, cover the lid and steam for about 10 minutes. The steaming time mainly depends on the thickness of sweet potato strips. If it is thicker, it will take longer.

Step 4: After steaming, you can insert chopsticks to check whether the sweet potato is steamed thoroughly. Chopsticks steam when they are easy to insert. Be careful not to steam for a long time, otherwise the sweet potato strips will be too soft and easy to break.

Step 5: put the steamed sweet potato strips on the drying net to cool. After cooling, dry them in the sun. Pay attention to choose sunny and dry weather, preferably a breeze, so that sweet potatoes will dry faster.

Step 6: Sun-dry the surface of sweet potato strips, then put them in a steamer with water to boil, then put the dried red French fries in the steamer, cover the pot and steam for 10 minute.

Step 7: Then dry the sweet potato strips in the sun, and repeat the operation. A * * * needs to be steamed three times and dried three times. You can take it back when the surface of the sweet potato strips is dry. Dry sweet potatoes should be sealed and stored in a cool and dry place.

Two skills to pay attention to

1. After peeling and cutting sweet potatoes, don't steam them directly in the pot. Soak them in salt water before steaming in the pot. This can prevent the surface of sweet potato from oxidation and blackening, and the surface color of dried sweet potato will be more ruddy. If steamed directly in the pot, the dried sweet potatoes will turn black and look less attractive.

2. Many people steam dried sweet potatoes and put them outside to dry. Dried sweet potatoes can be hard and even hard to bite. So remember "three steaming and three drying". Steam dry for three times, so that the dried sweet potato is sweet and soft, and old people and children can bite it.

skill

1, in addition to the above two key tips, it should also be noted that in order to make dried sweet potatoes delicious, you must first remember to choose sweet potatoes with high sugar in red hearts.

Secondly, in the process of drying, we must observe the weather in the last week. Especially within three days, because in the process of sweet potato drying, if it is rainy, if there is still water inside the sweet potato at this time, it will easily go bad and affect the taste.

Therefore, it is necessary to choose continuous sunny weather, about 7 days, and the specific drying time depends on the degree of hardness that people like.

3. Dried sweet potatoes must be sealed and stored in a cool and dry place to meet these two conditions. There is no problem in drying sweet potatoes for a month or two.