How to make sweet potato cake

Sweet potato cake is an authentic local specialty. The main ingredient is made from sweet potatoes. It has a sweet and soft taste and is rich in nutritional value. Regular consumption is also very good for the body. Since sweet potatoes contain a lot of dietary fiber, regular consumption can promote gastrointestinal digestion and effectively improve constipation. Sweet potato cake is simple to make and can be eaten by both the elderly and children.

How to make sweet potato cake

1. Wash the sweet potatoes first

2. Peel and set aside

3. Cut into 10 mm square cubes and put into a bowl

4. Add flour and salt

5. Add 50 grams of cold water and stir evenly

6. Put some oil in a small pot

7. Add diced potato batter and fry over low heat until light yellow.

8. Turn it over and put it into a small pot. Remember to add a little oil with a small spoon to avoid burning it, so pay attention to the technique.

9. When both sides are light yellow, take out and set aside

10. Add rapeseed oil to the pan and heat it to 60% hot. Put the fried sweet potato cakes into the pan and heat the oil for 3 minutes.

11. Remove from the pan when both sides turn golden brown and drain the oil.

Cooking Tips

1. When frying the sweet potato paste in a small pan, use bamboo chopsticks to stir evenly so that the diced potatoes do not overlap;

2. Do not over-fry when frying to avoid burning. Be patient.

3. This method is a little troublesome, but it can give the small sweet potato cakes a more beautiful and varied appearance. You can try it.

The efficacy and function of sweet potatoes

1. Sweet potatoes are good for your heart

Sweet potatoes are rich in potassium, beta-carotene, folic acid, vitamin C and vitamin B6, all of which help prevent cardiovascular disease. Potassium helps maintain fluid and electrolyte balance in the body's cells and maintain normal blood pressure and heart function. β-carotene and vitamin C have the effects of anti-lipid oxidation and preventing atherosclerosis. Supplementation of folic acid and vitamin B6 can help lower the level of homocysteine ​​in the blood, which can damage arteries and is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Sweet potatoes have been regarded by nutritionists as a nutritionally balanced food that can be used as both medicine and food. Their calories are only one-third of the calories produced by the same weight of rice, and they contain almost no fat and cholesterol. Eating sweet potatoes regularly is beneficial to human health and has certain weight loss effects. But don't eat too much sweet potatoes at one time to avoid abdominal discomfort symptoms such as heartburn, acid reflux or bloating.

2. Sweet potatoes prevent emphysema

Excessive smoking may cause symptoms of emphysema. Friends with emphysema can eat more sweet potatoes to relieve the symptoms. Sweet potatoes are rich in vitamin A. Eating more sweet potatoes can effectively reduce the incidence of emphysema.

3. Sweet potatoes have anti-cancer effects

The most anti-cancer nutrients in the diet are beta-carotene (a precursor of vitamin A), vitamin C and folic acid, and sweet potatoes are rich in all three. A small sweet potato (about 2 taels) can provide twice the amount of vitamin A required by the human body every day, one-third of the daily amount of vitamin C required, and about 50 micrograms of folic acid; the dietary fiber content is higher than that of a bowl of oatmeal porridge. The antioxidant effects of β-carotene and vitamin C help resist the damage of oxidative stress to the genetic material deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and play a certain anti-cancer role.

Eating sweet potatoes regularly helps maintain normal folic acid levels in the body. Too low folic acid levels in the body will increase the risk of cancer. The high content of dietary fiber in sweet potatoes can promote gastrointestinal motility, prevent constipation and colorectal cancer.

Nutritional value of sweet potatoes

It contains 8 kinds of vitamins such as vitamin C, vitamin B, vitamin A and more than 10 kinds of mineral elements such as phosphorus and iron. It also contains a large amount of strange effects. Sweet potato has a high content of cellulose, which can increase the volume of stool, promote gastrointestinal motility, clean up mucus, gas and decayed products retained in the intestinal cavity, excrete toxic substances and carcinogens in the stool, keep the stool unobstructed, improve the digestive tract environment, and prevent the occurrence of gastrointestinal diseases. Zinc, iron, copper, manganese, calcium and selenium in purple sweet potatoes are all natural, and the content of iron and calcium is particularly high. Very suitable for children to eat.

The benefits of eating sweet potatoes in winter

1. Helps lose weight

Nowadays, people's living standards are constantly improving, and the spicier the diet, the better. Therefore, more and more obese friends are becoming more and more common. Sweet potatoes have low fat content and produce little heat. Eating more sweet potatoes can also reduce hunger, which just meets the basic requirements of those who want to lose weight.

Every 100 grams of fresh sweet potato contains only 0.2 grams of fat and produces 99 kilocalories of heat energy, which is about 1/3 of rice. Therefore, it is a good low-fat, low-calorie food. If it is used as a staple food, it can effectively reduce the intake of other foods and achieve the effect of weight loss.

In addition, sweet potatoes can effectively prevent sugars from turning into fat, which is beneficial for bodybuilding.