Sweet potato, a traditional dish of Shandong cuisine with good color and fragrance, takes sweet potato as the main ingredient, after frying and stir-frying in sugar, presenting an unparalleled taste and flavor. The fried sweet potatoes are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and the syrup after the sugar stir-fry can pull out long strands of sugar, which is in stark contrast to the taste of the sweet potatoes, and is extremely delicious.
Here are the cooking steps for pulling sweet potatoes:
1. Prepare ingredients: sweet potato, sugar, oil, water, etc.
2. Handle the ingredients: Peel the sweet potato, cut it into evenly sized hob pieces, and set aside.
3. Fried sweet potato: Pour the oil into the pot, heat it to 50% hot, put in the sweet potato pieces, fry until the surface is golden and crispy, remove and drain the oil.
4. Stir-fry the syrup: start another pot, add a small amount of oil, add sugar, slowly fry over low heat, add a small amount of water when the syrup is slightly yellow, and continue to fry until the syrup becomes viscous.
5. Pull the silk: Pour the fried sweet potato pieces into the syrup, quickly stir-fry evenly, and let each sweet potato be coated with a layer of syrup. Pick up a piece of sweet potato with chopsticks, and the syrup will pull out long strands of sugar.
6. Remove from the pot and serve on the plate: Put the shredded sweet potato on a plate and serve it on the table.
During the cooking process, it is necessary to pay attention to the control of heat and oil temperature. When frying sweet potatoes, too much heat can easily burn the sugar and affect the taste, and when frying sweet potatoes, too high oil temperature may cause the sweet potatoes to be fried or raw.
As long as you follow the steps carefully, you can cook delicious sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes not only have a unique taste, but also have rich nutritional value. Sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins and other nutrients, which have the effects of moisturizing the intestines and enhancing immunity. The syrup can provide energy to the body and replenish physical strength. Therefore, eating sweet potatoes in moderation is beneficial to the body.