Sweet potato baking temperature

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Sweet potato food is quite familiar to many people. Sweet potatoes can be used to prepare many delicious dishes. In it, it is impossible not to mention the baked sweet potato dish. However, to make baked sweet potatoes with an attractive and delicious taste depends on many factors, such as: Temperature and baking time...

1. How to choose delicious sweet potatoes

Sweet potatoes are a food source of many vitamins, minerals, riboflavin, thiamin, niacin and carotenoids... These are nutritional ingredients that can support you in the prevention and treatment of many chronic diseases, proper weight management. , improve skin and hair.
In 100 grams of edible sweet potatoes, there are 2 grams of protein, 7.05 grams of carbohydrate, 961 μg of vitamin A, 38 mg of calcium, 3.3 grams of fiber... The ingredients for processing must be fresh. Here are a few ways to help you choose fresh sweet potatoes for baked potatoes.
Selected potatoes have a round or elongated shape, not bent, concave, slightly squeezed, not too hard. Potatoes that meet these criteria will usually be less fibrous, more floury and very sweet to eat; In order to choose a sweet, fragrant, and fragrant sweet potato, you should choose potatoes that still retain the chalk or soil layer. When cutting a thin slice at the tip of the potato, it will see a light yellow color and melt the plastic, then these potatoes will be very sweet, friable and delicious; To choose a sweet potato, you should choose a purple-red potato. When slicing a small piece at the tip of the tuber, the potato color is light yellow and melted.

2. Potato baking time and temperature

Regardless of the method used to bake the potatoes, it is necessary to pay attention to the baking temperature and the time to maintain this temperature. Because, if the baking time is too long or the temperature is too long, the potato may burn or the dish may spoil. Especially, for sweet potatoes, if the baking time is too long with high temperature, the honey in the potato will flow out. Or the prolonged baking time can lose the weight of the potato, and the color and flavor of the potato will also be changed. So, at what temperature is it appropriate to bake potatoes?
There are many ways used to complete the baked sweet potato dish. You can use a charcoal stove for grilling, but you need to carefully watch the amount of baking time as well as the baking temperature to avoid burning the potatoes. Currently, to simplify the processing of dishes, especially baked sweet potatoes, the oven can be used to bake. The outstanding advantage of the oven is that it can accurately adjust the temperature and precise timer. Normally, the oven temperature is usually set to 180 to 190 degrees Celsius and lasts about 50 minutes. This is the standard environment for potatoes to ripen and bring out the best flavor. However, for each type of potato or potato size, these parameters may vary slightly.

3. Steps to be taken when baking potatoes in the oven

First choose fresh potatoes, then wash them and let them drain. You should choose the type of sweet potato with ripe yellow, flexible, delicious and attractive; Arrange the sweet potatoes evenly on the baking tray. Potatoes should not be stacked on top of each other. This will cause the potatoes to not ripen evenly, affecting the quality of the ingredients; Setting up the parameters for the oven: As explained above, the two parameters of temperature and time play an important role in determining the delicious taste of baked sweet potatoes. Therefore, the baking temperature of the potatoes will be adjusted between 180 and 190 degrees Celsius. After a period of 20 minutes, turn off the oven and turn the potatoes over so that the potatoes are evenly cooked and continue with the baking process with this temperature for a period of 30 to 35 minutes; Finished potatoes: after the operation of the oven is over, do not rush to remove the potatoes from the oven, but leave them in the oven for a few minutes. The purpose is that the honey in the potato can be absorbed into the potato more to create the delicious flavor characteristic of baked potatoes.

4. Some benefits of sweet potatoes when baked in the oven

Sweet potatoes have many nutritional benefits for health, such as: in sweet potatoes contain rich beta carotene content, when loaded into the body, it will be converted into vitamin A by the liver. effect against infections. Or, using sweet potatoes has a good effect on reducing insulin resistance in people with diabetes. Moreover, this is a food with a low glycemic index, so when using potatoes, it helps control blood sugar and can regulate blood sugar in diabetics. Besides, baked sweet potatoes can also have some significant benefits such as:
Increase the ability to regulate blood sugar; Has the ability to reduce diseases related to vitamin A deficiency; Prevention of certain cancers or oxidative stress;

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Reference source: loveandlemons.com