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Cooking Tip: How to Boil Sweet Potatoes Properly
17.04.2023 19:11
Updated: 13.05.2024 21:25
If you know how to cook sweet potatoes properly, your dishes will turn out great.
Sweet potato is a tasty and healthy vegetable that prolongs the feeling of satiety for a long time.
Sweet potatoes can be fried, baked in the oven, microwaved, mashed or boiled.
The easiest and fastest way to cook a vegetable is to boil it. Moreover, it doesn’t matter if you cleaned the sweet potato or not.
Why you should cook sweet potatoes with peel
The peel of sweet potato contains a large amount of nutrients.
Therefore, it is worth saving the skin in cooking.
How to properly handle sweet potatoes
Use a fresh vegetable with no blemishes or soft spots.
Store sweet potatoes in a dry, cool place for up to 1 week.
If you want to puree, cut the root vegetable into small pieces, this will save you time.
The cooking time of the sweet potato will take no more than 20 minutes.
How to cook sweet potato
- Rinse the vegetable with cold clean water.
- You can remove or leave the skin as you wish.
- Cut the sweet potato into smaller pieces
- Boil sweet potatoes for 15-20 minutes in salted water over medium heat.
- Drain the water from the pot after cooking.
You can then puree or serve the side dish whole.
