There is a food called sweet potato syrup, which is really delicious. This is a sentence from Shi Tai's essay "Sweet Potato Sugar Water". Wake up in the afternoon, cook a bowl of sweet potato sugar water, plus a few strips of ginger shredded, sweet, moist, and slightly spicy, if slightly sweaty, the whole person ironing is comfortable.
Home-made sweet potato sugar water, to cook fragrant, sticky, sweet, without it, the texture of the sweet potato itself determines everything. There are many types of sweet potatoes, according to the color of red hearts, yellow hearts, white hearts and purple hearts, used to cook sugar water, biased towards red hearts and yellow hearts, more sweet. The sweet potato used this time is yellow heart, the skin is thin and the flesh is thin, it is more fragrant but not particularly sweet, and most importantly, it does not have any tendons. Ginger shreds should not be laid too early, because the aroma of ginger will disappear after cooking for a long time, leaving only a spicy taste. Sugar is best to use brown sugar, but the texture must be good, that is, those pure brown sugar that has no impurities and only sugar cane is sweet is best. If not, use rock candy. With good sweet potatoes and brown sugar, and then add the unique spicy flavor of ginger, such a bowl of sugar water, into the stomach to warm the heart, drink the whole body comfortable.
【Ingredients】 1 sweet potato (about 500g), 1500ml of water, 1 piece of ginger, brown sugar to taste
【Directions】
1. Pick sweet potatoes, preferably red or yellow hearts.
2. Wash the sweet potatoes, peel and cut into hob pieces.
3. Wash the ginger and cut the skin into strips.
4. Place sweet potatoes and water in a casserole dish and bring to a boil over high heat.
5. Turn heat to medium-low heat and cook for another 20 minutes.
6. Add shredded ginger.
7. Add the brown sugar.
8. Melt with brown sugar and turn off the heat.
【Little Five Foods】
Sugar and ginger do not have a specific amount, these can be adjusted according to personal taste, like a little sweet on the more sugar, eat the spicy ginger especially to drive away the cold, just a little more ginger.