How to make sweet potato strips with sweet plums

Sweet potato strips with sweet plums are a snack that many people eat. This snack tastes quite delicious, and the most important thing is that it feels quite chewy when chewing. It is for this reason that many people learn to make it at home. In fact, this is a snack that children like to eat. So before cooking, you must peel the sweet potatoes and wash them.

Sweet potato chips, as the name suggests, are strips of food made from sweet potatoes.

The color is generally golden, the taste is sweet, it is tough and chewy.

It is one of the favorite snacks of children.

How to make sweet potato fries:

Cut small sweet potatoes into strips, dry them, wash them, steam them, and put them outside to dry in sunny weather. If there is no sun, you will have to waste a few coal balls to dry them. There are also certain limits when drying (baking) sweet potato chips. If they are dried too long, they will become as hard as iron, and people with bad teeth will not be able to finish chewing one in half a day. If they are not dried long enough, they will contain too much moisture and will easily become moldy, making them difficult to store.

Select potatoes

Choose fresh potatoes with smooth and tender skin, no insect holes, no tears, and no peculiar smell, and the size should be between 100 and 150 grams.

Cleaning

Use water to clean the surface dirt of the selected sweet potatoes. When cleaning, it is better to rinse it. Do not rub it hard in a bamboo container, as this will damage the delicate surface skin and make it difficult to peel it after steaming.

Steaming

Put the cleaned sweet potatoes into the steamer in batches of different sizes and steam them. When steaming, the fire should be strong. The best time for steaming is when the sweet potatoes are just cored, because they are easier to process. If they are not cored, the processed sweet potatoes will be black in color and have an odor. However, if they are over-steamed, they will lose their stickiness and become mushy, making them difficult to cut into strips. After steaming, remove from the steamer and cool in time.

Skinning

Peel the cooked and cooled potatoes until the skin is completely removed.

Cut into strips

Cut the peeled potatoes into long strips with a knife. When cutting into strips, it is best to cut them into thin long strips according to the shape of the potato pieces, with a thickness of between 1 and 2 cm.

Ondol

Place the cut thin strips on the kang frame without overlapping. It is better to use bamboo woven kang frame. When heating a kang, the fire can be a little stronger at the beginning. When the kang is half dry, gradually turn it to a low fire. If the fire is too strong, the French fries will be burnt and change their taste, and the color will turn black, forming separation layers and hollow shells; if the fire is too small and the baking time is too long, its quality will also be affected. When the kang is 80% dry, it should be removed and cooled. In order to accurately grasp the dryness of the rice cake, you can chew it with your mouth. It should be soft and spongy when chewed, which has the most appropriate hardness. If it is baked too dry, it will be difficult to chew and its quality will be affected. However, if it is not cooked enough, it will have too much moisture and will easily become moldy and rot.