How to dry sweet potatoes at home? Tips on how to dry sweet potatoes

After being dried, the sweet potatoes turn golden in color, and are sweet and chewy. They are also very nutritious and very popular among friends. Many friends want to participate in making dried sweet potatoes themselves. The following will share with you how to dry sweet potatoes yourself and the tips for drying sweet potatoes.

Contents of this article

1. How to dry sweet potatoes at home

2. Tips for drying sweet potatoes

3. How many days does it take to dry sweet potatoes?

How to dry sweet potatoes at home

1. Material selection

When drying sweet potatoes, choose large ones with thin skin, large size and low starch content.

2. Wash and cook until soft (steamed)

Wash the sweet potatoes, cut them in half, and cook them in boiling water until soft, or steam them.

3. Drying/cutting

Take out and let it cool. After peeling, cut into slices or strips of your choice and flatten. Flatten and dry in the sun, the dried sweet potatoes made in this way are very sweet and delicious!

3. Drying

Then dry it in the sun to remove moisture! Spread it flat on the lid curtain (lid curtain, also called lid mat, dumpling curtain, dumpling pat, dumpling plate, grate curtain, lid. It is used to place various pasta and can also be used as a pot cover.), if the sun is good, it is generally dried for four to five days. Remember to turn it over and dry it in the middle. Of course, the specific time depends on the sunshine conditions. After drying, this kind can be eaten directly. When drying, this yellow one has not been steamed yet. The dried sweet potato that has not been completely dried is soft and sweet in the mouth.

Tips: If you are patient, you can cover the clothes with gauze or net to block dust. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Of course, hanging clothes is more conducive to air drying.

4. High temperature steaming and then exposure to the sun

The ones in the previous step are not completely dried! You can choose to put them in a wooden barrel steamer and steam them at high temperature to steam off the moisture of the sweet potatoes! Such sweet potatoes are softer to eat and can be stored for a long time! After steaming, put them in the sun to dry, and dry them hard! Finally, dry them into dried sweet potatoes! After drying, you can store them!

Tips: Cover and keep it steamed after steaming, and then dry it the next day. It will be sweeter, but the color will be a little darker.

Tips for drying sweet potatoes

The first step: choose the "honey pot sweet potato" produced locally in Haicaofang Tang Township. This kind of sweet potato is harvested after the frost. After harvesting, it should be stored in the cellar and "kun" (local dialect). It means storing it for a period of time to allow the sugar in the sweet potato to slowly change. The longer the kun time, the sweeter the sweet potato will be.

Step 2: Select the best sweet potatoes, wash them, steam them, peel them, cool them and dry them in the sun for 5-7 days.

Step 3: After the skin of the dried sweet potatoes is dried, store them. After about 5 days, take them out and dry them again. At this time, the dried sweet potatoes will have a slight white frost.

Step 4: After drying, store it again and dry it for the third time after a week.

Step 5: After drying and storing for another half a month, the dried sweet potatoes will basically be covered with a layer of natural white frost. The longer they are stored, the thicker the frost will be and the sweeter they will be.

How many days does it take to dry sweet potatoes?

It must be dried in sunny days, and it will be ready in five or six days. If it is cloudy and not dried in one go, it will affect the color and will easily mold. First wash the sweet potatoes, add cold water into the pot, the water must cover the sweet potatoes, and boil until the water boils. At this time, the sweet potatoes are only half-cooked, so you can take them out to dry until they become soft. How long it takes depends on the sunshine. The next step is to steam them. After steaming, you can flatten them and take them out to dry in the sun. Cover them and keep them stuffy after steaming. Dry them again the next day. This will make them sweeter, but the color will be a little darker. It seems that you can steam them one or two more times in between, and try to dry them in the sun for preservation. It is better to choose a small sweet potato, and the variety with yellow core and soft is the best. This is what I learned when I went to the countryside in my early years. The dried sweet potatoes in western Fujian are very famous, and the method is roughly like this. It's been too long, and I remember it like this. If it's just the kind of dried sweet potatoes in the grain store, just slice them and expose them to the sun.