After entering the winter, sweet potatoes will be listed in large quantities, and the sweet potatoes at this time have the highest starch content and sufficient moisture, which is the most suitable for roasting and eating in the sun. I don't know if you have prepared dried sweet potatoes at home? When it comes to the New Year, it can be used to entertain guests, which is much more delicious than melon seeds and peanuts.
For the delicacy of dried sweet potatoes, my family will make more than ten or twenty pounds every year, but it is very skillful to make the dried sweet potatoes delicious. Many friends say that the dried sweet potatoes made by themselves are easy to blacken, are you directly cut and dried?
If you're still doing that, let me tell you today how my 90-year-old grandmother taught me how to make dried sweet potatoes. After mastering these three key tricks, ensure that the dried sweet potatoes you make are soft and sticky, not dry and hard at the same time, the color is also particularly golden, very appetizing.
Dried sweet potatoes, do not dry directly, keep in mind the 3 tricks, the color is golden, the taste is good
First of all, when preparing the sweet potatoes, we can't directly peel them for drying, we have to first peel the sweet potatoes and dry them in the sun for about three days. Because the sweet potato that has just been bought back, its internal moisture will be very heavy, if it is directly peeled and dried to make a dried sweet potato, the taste is not sweet.
Therefore, we must first dry part of the moisture inside the sweet potato. With the evaporation of water, the starch in the sweet potato will also be converted into sugar, the higher the sugar, the drier the sweet potato, the sweeter the taste.
After the sweet potatoes are dried, we also have to soak them in brine, and before soaking, we must remember to peel the sweet potatoes and then cut the sweet potatoes into small pieces. Then take the cut sweet potato pieces and soak them in salt water for two hours, why soak them in salt water? That's a lot of attention.
Salt water has a good sterilization and disinfection effect, so that it can be effectively improved, dried sweet potatoes in the drying process, will not be infected by bacteria, and greatly improve the storage time. Secondly, salt can also form a protective film on the surface of the dried sweet potato, so that the dried sweet potato will not be blackened by oxidation in the process of drying, and the dried sweet potato will be more transparent in color.
After soaking the sweet potatoes, we will use the steamer to steam it, the purpose of this is to make the sweet potatoes quickly preheat, and then quickly pre-cool, and shrink. Under the action of cold and heat, the taste of dried sweet potatoes will become more rigid, like eating beef jerky.
But when doing this step, we should also pay attention to the fact that sweet potato cubes cannot be steamed for too long. If you steam the sweet potato pieces completely, you can no longer make dried sweet potatoes, you can only eat them immediately. Therefore, when steaming sweet potato cubes, be sure to control the time, steaming for 5 minutes on high heat, is the best time.
【Ingredients】: sweet potato, salt
【Methods and steps】
1, first of all, we have to prepare about 10 pounds of sweet potatoes, the sweet potatoes are dried in the sun for two days, and then in the process of drying the sweet potatoes, remember to turn over the sweet potatoes until the skin of the sweet potatoes is wrinkled. There are fewer suns in winter, so in the process of drying, we can increase the time as appropriate.
2, after the sweet potato is dried, we must wash the soil on its surface, and then cut off the head and tail of the sweet potato, and then cut the sweet potato into small pieces. It should be noted here that the taste of sweet potato head and tail is very difficult to eat, and we must remember to remove it.
3, prepare a large basin of water, and then add an appropriate amount of salt to the water, a pound of sweet potatoes with 3 grams of salt, is the best proportion. After the salt is stirred and melted, the diced sweet potato pieces are added directly to the brine and soaked for more than two hours.
4, soaked sweet potatoes, we have to pour off the brine, and then wash twice with water, wash the excess starch on the surface of the sweet potato.
5: Prepare the steamer, and add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, then turn on the high heat to bring the water in the pot to a boil, then add the soaked sweet potato pieces to the steamer, cover the lid, and steam for 5 minutes on high heat.
6, steam the sweet potato until slightly soft, you can take it out of the steamer, and then put it in a ventilated place, dry for about 10 days, and when it is completely dried, you can eat it.
Well, the above is what I want to share with you today, 3 tips for making dried sweet potatoes. Have you used the above methods when making dried sweet potatoes before? If you still can't make dried sweet potatoes, remember to use the method I taught you to try.
If you have a better way to make more dried sweet potatoes, remember to leave a message in the comments section and tell me how you did it.