How to make oven-baked sweet potatoes

Although the methods and steps used in making dried sweet potatoes are relatively simple, you still need to be particularly careful when making them, because if the correct method is not used, the dried sweet potatoes will easily become sour. Among them, drying the dried sweet potatoes is a very important step, so those who have an oven at home can use the oven to bake the dried sweet potatoes. The following article explains how to make dried sweet potatoes using an oven.

How to make baked sweet potatoes in the oven

1. Wash the sweet potatoes and wipe them dry or drain the water on the surface naturally. It is recommended to choose the medium to small, long and narrow ones, which are easier to ripen.

2. Place the drained sweet potatoes on the baking rack and put them in the oven. The oven is the kind with a baking tray, so remember to put the oven bottom tray in, otherwise the sugar and oil from the sweet potato will drip onto the bottom of the oven and be difficult to clean. Or if you use a baking rack, you must cover the baking rack with tin foil, or wrap the sweet potatoes directly in tin foil and bake them to prevent the oil from the sweet potatoes from dripping into the oven.

3. Turn off the oven, select upper and lower heating, temperature 230 degrees, time 20 minutes.

4. After 20 minutes, take out the sweet potato, turn it over, put it back into the oven and continue baking for 20 minutes. This allows for more even heating. Be careful to avoid being burned by the baking tube when turning over. It is recommended to wear heat-insulating gloves. Also, every oven and sweet potato is different. This time is for reference only. If you feel the sweet potatoes are still a little hard, you can extend the cooking time appropriately.

5. When the time is up, do not take it out immediately. Unplug the power supply and use the residual heat of the oven to bake for about 10 minutes.

6. When you take it out, pinch it with your hands. If it is still hard, heat it for a while again. The fragrant sweet potatoes are baked. Take out of the oven and break it apart. Bright yellow.

How to bake sweet potatoes in the microwave

1. Wash the sweet potatoes. Unlike oven baking, remember, you don’t need to rub water on it, you need to retain the moisture of the skin.

2. Wrap the sweet potato with a piece of paper. Of course, you can bake it without wrapping it in paper, but some moisture will be released during baking. It will be cleaner in the microwave if you wrap it. Try to use clean paper, or kitchen paper towel will do.

3. Place it on a microwave tray and heat it on high heat for 3 minutes; turn it over and continue cooking on high heat for 3 minutes (adjust the time according to the size of the sweet potato). If you are not sure about the time, you can check it halfway and touch it to see if it is soft.

Tips for baking sweet potatoes

1. The baking time of sweet potatoes should be adjusted according to the size of the sweet potatoes and your own oven. If the sweet potatoes are larger, they may take longer to bake.

2. When choosing sweet potatoes, it is best to choose those with higher water content, as these sweet potatoes will be particularly sweet when baked.

3. When checking the doneness of the sweet potatoes, pinch them with your hand first. If they feel soft, it means they are cooked. If they are still hard, bake them for a while longer.

4. To avoid being burned by the baking tube when turning over. It is recommended to wear heat-insulating gloves.

5. When baking sweet potatoes in an electric oven, you can choose sweet potatoes with red flesh. They will be sweet and moist after baking, and will even secrete sugar juice if baked for a longer time. If you like noodles with a good texture, choose the ones with red skin and white flesh. It has less water, is relatively dry, and tastes very sweet.

6. It is recommended to bake only one piece of sweet potato at a time in an electric oven so that the heat is evenly distributed and the baked sweet potatoes taste better.

7. Sweet potatoes are easily burnt when baked in some small household electric ovens, mainly because the oven's heating tube is in close direct contact with the food. You may make the tin foil into an arch shape and cover the sweet potatoes, so that the electric heating tube will not directly shine on the sweet potatoes and the upper layer will not easily burn. At the same time, the arched tin foil will form a heat circulation when heated, allowing the sweet potatoes to be heated evenly, which can effectively prevent the food from being burnt on the outside and raw on the inside.

8. The oven is the kind with a baking tray. Remember to put the oven bottom tray in, otherwise the sugar and oil from the sweet potato will drip onto the bottom of the oven and it will be difficult to clean. Or if you use a baking rack, be sure to cover (wrap) the baking rack with tin foil to prevent the oil from the sweet potatoes from dripping into the oven.

Oven baked sweet potato temperature and time

The temperature used in the oven for baking sweet potatoes is not constant. It is determined by the size of the sweet potatoes and the specific baking time, ranging from 200°C to 250°C.

Generally, the time we use the oven to bake sweet potatoes depends on the size of the sweet potatoes. However, if we choose some thinner sweet potatoes, the baking time can be shorter. Generally, it only takes 30 minutes to adjust the oven to 220℃. If the temperature is 240℃, it only takes 25 minutes. If the sweet potatoes are very large, we can extend the baking time appropriately. If we heat the sweet potatoes to half-cooked in advance, baking them at 150℃ for 10 minutes will be enough.

How to tell if sweet potatoes are cooked?

Take the sweet potatoes out of the oven and squeeze them with your hands. If the sweet potatoes are soft and fragrant, they are cooked. If the sweet potato is still hard, or some parts are soft and some parts are hard, it is not cooked through and needs to be baked again until it is soft.