Now it is the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, the weather is getting cooler and cooler, the moisture content in the air is very small, so the dry air is suitable for drying things.
Every autumn, many farmers like to make their own dried potatoes or dried sweet potatoes, their own sweet potatoes and potatoes can not be eaten, make some dry products, and eat them as snacks in winter.
Dried sweet potatoes are a good snack, and some people often go to the supermarket to buy this food, which adults and children love to eat.
Farmers have ingenious ideas: produce their own food, use their own sweet potatoes to make dried sweet potatoes, low cost good taste.
Mom has a unique skill, the dried sweet potatoes she made are soft and sticky, sweet and delicious to eat, relatives and friends have eaten dried sweet potatoes made by mothers.
This year's sweet potato harvest, with their own sweet potatoes to make more dry products, you can send friends and family, you can also give snacks to children.
In the countryside, many farmers like to make their own dried sweet potatoes, and everyone makes dried sweet potatoes differently.
Next door, Mrs. Wang, she makes dried sweet potatoes very simple. He washed the sweet potatoes, then cut them into thick strips, soaked them in water for a few days, fished them out, boiled them in boiling water until they were broken, and soon the sweet potatoes were fished up and put in the sun to dry.
Using this method to make dried sweet potatoes saves time and effort, but the dried sweet potatoes are very hard, and when you chew them in your mouth, you will accidentally bite your cheeks.
If you want the dried sweet potatoes to be delicious, you can't be afraid of trouble when making them.
There are three tricks to making dried sweet potatoes, and these processes may seem tedious, but if you want the dried sweet potatoes to taste good, you have to do it.
When cleaning sweet potatoes, be careful, there are many bumps on the sweet potatoes, those soils are deeply sunk into the folds, wash them several times, or use a small spatula to dig out the soil that is deep in the sweet potatoes and wash the sweet potatoes thoroughly.
In order to make the color of the dried sweet potatoes look good, try to choose some red sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes have red and white sweet potatoes, and the sweet potatoes of the red gourds look better after drying.
To cook the sweet potatoes, this step is key.
Some people wash the raw sweet potatoes, peel and cut them into strips, and then put them in boiling water to cook.
The method I am talking about, first do not peel and chop the raw sweet potatoes, you must cook them whole. This is done in order to maintain the original taste of sweet potatoes, and sweet potatoes soaked in water after cutting will definitely lose some sugar and nutrients, and the taste will be worse.
When cooking sweet potatoes, the water should not be too much, just over the sweet potato is good, put the water in place, cover the pot, open the pot on high heat, about 15 minutes, the specific time depends on the size of the root block of the sweet potato to decide.
It is estimated that the sweet potato is almost ripe, use a chopstick to tie the sweet potato, if the sweet potato can be moved, it means that the sweet potato is cooked well.
After the sweet potatoes are cooked, do not rush to take them out, after half an hour, slowly take out the sweet potatoes, so as not to crush the sweet potatoes, and the cooked sweet potatoes are easy to break.
Place the sweet potatoes in a clean container, wait until the sweet potatoes are cool, and then carefully peel off the skins.
With a very sharp knife, gently cut the sweet potatoes into strips or chunks.
Then carefully place the sweet potato fries or sweet potato pieces in a breathable sieve or on a breathable bamboo grate, let the sweet potatoes dry to 80%, and then steam them again in a large pot.
This is done to make the dried sweet potato soft and not hard, and to make the dried sweet potato more soft and sticky, to dry it for a few days and then steam it again, and then to dry it in the sun.
When some farmers cook sweet potatoes, they are accustomed to putting a little salt in the water, and they must not put more, which is to make the sweet potatoes sweeter.
Another point is that when making dried sweet potatoes, be sure to pay attention to the weather forecast and accurately grasp the recent weather conditions.
The process of making dried sweet potatoes takes about a week at the earliest, in such weather, in order to make the dried sweet potatoes dry quickly, if the weather is not good, the color of the dried sweet potatoes will darken, and the taste will be worse.
If you catch up with the high temperature and rainy weather, the dried sweet potatoes may become moldy and deteriorated, so the previous efforts will be abandoned.
Put the dried sweet potatoes in a breathable cloth bag and hang them in a ventilated and cool place, so that they can be stored for a long time.
This is Mom's experience in making dried sweet potatoes for many years, and here I share it with you, do you have any better tips?