How to cook sweet potatoes
You will need - sweet potato and water
1. Wash the sweet potato, cut the peel with a sharp knife.
2. Divide large fruits into two parts, do not cut small ones.
3. Dip the sweet potatoes into a saucepan, fill with cold water - it should completely cover the sweet potatoes.
4. Pour a teaspoon of salt into a saucepan with sweet potatoes, place on medium until the water boils.
5. Reduce heat under the sweet potato saucepan until low.
6. Cook the sweet potatoes for 30 minutes with the lid closed.
7. Check the readiness of the sweet potato by piercing it with a fork; the cooked sweet potato should be soft, but not boiled.
Sweet potato puree soup
ProductsSweet potato - 3 pieces of medium size
Garlic - 3 prongs
Carrots - 1 large
Ginger - 3 centimeters fresh root
Leeks - 2 stalks
Olive oil - 30 milliliters
Dried flax seeds - 3 teaspoons
Cold pressed flaxseed oil - 7 drops
How to make sweet potato puree soup
1. Wash the leeks, cut into thin rings.
2. Wash carrots, sweet potatoes, cut off the peel, cut into cubes 1.5 centimeters thick.
3. Heat a skillet with olive oil over low heat.
4. Fry the leeks in hot oil for 2 minutes.
5. Put chopped carrots, sweet potatoes to the leeks, fry for a few minutes.
6. Pour a little boiling water over the fried vegetables, so that it completely covers them, simmer for 15 minutes until soft.
7. Peel and grate the ginger.
8. Add ginger to stewed vegetables, hold on the stove for a minute, remove from heat, cool slightly.
9. Chop the peeled garlic.
10. Put the vegetable mass from the pan into a blender, pour in linseed oil, grind in mashed potatoes.
11. Pour the soup into bowls, garnish with flax seeds.
Fusofacts
- Sweet potato - this is tuber plant similar to potatoes, but larger and with a sweeter taste, for which the name "sweet potato" is derived.- Batat grow mainly in tropical and subtropical countries, in some areas of the temperate zone. Especially popular in India, Indonesia, China. In Russia, sweet potato grows as an annual crop in several regions. In Bashkiria, tubers are germinated in a greenhouse for 5 weeks, after which they are transplanted into open ground. Sweet potatoes are also grown in Khakassia.
- Calorie content sweet potatoes are only 10% higher than that of potatoes (86 kcal / 100 grams), and the amount of nutrients is 2 times higher.
- Sweet potato fruits outwardly similar on potatoes, but do not have eyes. The average length of a sweet potato is up to 15 centimeters, and the shape of the tuber depends on the variety and can be round, oblong, ribbed. The flesh of sweet potato is yellow, cream, orange, red and purple in color. When cut, white juice emerges from the pulp. The taste of most varieties of sweet potatoes is delicate and sweetish, but there are still fresh ones.
- Sweet potatoes are recommended to be regularly consumed by people with diseases of the digestive tract. It strengthens the stomach lining and improves condition patients with ulcers. It is also advised for prophylaxis with a predisposition to the development of stomach tumors.