SWEET POTATOES

My grandma used to tell us that Sweet potatoes was their basic food

during second world war.  Now a day, some of the sweet potatoes are

more expensive then rice.

Sweet potatoes(especially the yellow-fleshed varieties) are an excellent

food because they contain a rich and complete assortment of mineral,

vitamins and amino acids.  The supply of amino acids and B-complex

vitamins found in sweet potatoes cover just about all of the body's daily

nutritional requirement. Amino acids are essential for the repair and

maintained of the body's cells, nails, skin, internal organ, blood vessels,

and red blood cells.

Many think that since sweet potatoes are starchy foods they'll make you

fat.  Actually, eating too many high-fat foods will make you over-weight.

We used to eat steamed sweet potatoes with bread fast.  Sometimes

we will cook sweet potatoes porridge, sweet potatoes desert(tong sui). 

In fact, there are many ways of preparing sweet potatoes.

Recipe for Sweet Potatoes desert(tong sui)

Ingredients

500g sweet potatoes

6 rice bowls of water

50g of old ginger

150 g of rock sugar

4 PCs of pandan leaves

pinch of salt

Method

Peel sweet potatoes,cut into cubes, soak in salt water for 10 minutes,

drain. Boil the water,  add in smashed ginger ,pandan leaves and rock

sugar for about 15 minutes.Add in the sweet potatoes and boil for

another 10 minutes or till its soft.

Serve will its hot.

Sweet Potatoes Porridge

150 g sweet potatoes

5 bowls of water (rice bowl)

1/2 cup of rice(the cup from the rice cooker)

a pinch of salt

Peel the sweet potatoes,cubed and soak in salt water for 10 min.

Wash the rice.Boil the water, then put in the rice and sweet potatoes. 

Boil for 5 minutes  or till the sweet potatoes is soft. Add in the salt.

Let stand for 5 minutes, serve hot with a sprinkling of fried onion

chopped spring onion.