Sweet potato cucumber

Sweet potatoes and cucumbers look like two completely different ingredients with different appearances and tastes. Sweet potatoes can be used to make soups, porridge, and steamed foods, and they all taste great. Cucumbers are mainly used for cold dishes, stir-fries, pickles, etc. Sweet potatoes and cucumbers are edible together, and can be used as a cold snack or to make other delicious foods.

Pan-fried sweet potato with cucumber salad

Material

120g sweet potato 1 tbsp tea seed oil 2 cucumbers 2 tbsp white vinegar 1.5 tbsp sugar Salt to taste Chili to taste

practice

Prepare the ingredients. Wash and peel the sweet potatoes, cut into long strips, and soak in water to remove the starch. Wash the cucumber, cut it into long strips, beat it with the back of a knife, add appropriate amount of salt (to make the cucumber spit out the bitter water), refrigerate for 2 hours, pour out the bitter water, add white vinegar, white sugar, appropriate amount of salt and appropriate amount of chili to the cucumber, put it in a plastic bag, shake it well, and put it in the refrigerator. When the cucumber is pickled, you can take it out.

After pouring out the water from the sweet potatoes, wipe off the moisture slightly with a kitchen towel, steam them in an electric rice cooker for 5 minutes, then take them out and put them in a stainless steel pot with a tablespoon of camellia oil. Do not use too high a heat and stir-fry constantly with chopsticks so that all sides of the sweet potatoes are coated with camellia oil. Fry until the sweet potatoes are cooked.

When serving, put the cold cucumber first, then put the sweet potato fried with bitter tea oil on top, and it is done.

Sweet Potato Meatballs

Material

1 large sweet potato, about 150 grams of flour, 30 grams of fresh ginger, salt and vegetable oil as needed

practice

1. Steam the sweet potatoes, peel them and make them into puree.

2. Wash and chop the fresh ginger into fine pieces.

3. Add minced ginger, mashed sweet potato, flour and salt and knead well.

4. Cut into small pieces and roll into balls.

5. Heat the vegetable oil and fry over low heat until golden brown.

Tips

Make a few horizontal and vertical cuts on the surface of the sweet potato, so that it will be easy to peel after steaming.

Candied Sweet Potato

Material

2 sweet potatoes, 70g sugar, 1 spoon of vinegar, 500ml oil

practice

1. Wash the sweet potatoes, remove the sand, peel them, and then cut them into dice. Cut and turn the sweet potatoes into rolling blocks.

2. Heat the oil in a pan, put the sweet potatoes in and fry them slowly over medium heat. Make sure the sweet potatoes are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. When the sweet potatoes are ripe and have a crispy shell on the outside, remove them from the oil and drain. Take a plate and brush it with a layer of cooked oil.

3. Put 1 spoon of oil in a non-stick pan, add sugar after the oil is hot, and simmer the sugar slowly over low heat. When the sugar is completely melted and small bubbles appear, add half a teaspoon of vinegar and simmer the sugar slowly until the color of the sugar turns yellow and then from yellow to red. Turn off the heat immediately, put in the fried sweet potatoes, and shake them a few times to let the sweet potatoes evenly coated with syrup.

4. Serve the food while hot and bring a small bowl of cold drinking water with it.

Tips

1. When frying sweet potatoes, they should be crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and all the sweet potatoes should be cooked. If you feel that they are not fried well in one go, fry them again.

2. For beginners, it is easier to succeed in boiling sugar with oil. You don’t need too much oil, because you can boil sugar according to its color. When the sugar turns golden red, it is cooked. Boiling sugar with water is much more complicated, and the heat is more difficult to control.