Its All About...... Sweet Potatoes

After talking so much about games
Now its time to talk bout foods

The 1st food i would like to discuss here is Sweet potato
Sweet potato is very nutritious vegetable
It is the excellent source of vitamin A
Other than carbohydrates,
it also contains vit C, B6, manganese, copper, potassium, iron & dietary fiber.
This is the reason why people in old time consume them as their main food.

Asian people nowadays seldom consume sweet potato
As we always have rice as our source of carbohydrate
sweet potato will become too heavy if make as dishes

In fact, sweet potatoes can be processed into other delicious products.
For examples: Man Tou & sweet potato soup that i wan to introduce here
(Mantou here is actually the steamed sweet potato bun)

The making of ManTou and the soup is actually very easy
Just a few steps:
1. Remove the skin of the potatoes and cut into small pieces
2. Wash and allow to dry
3. Divide into 2 portions: A & B

Portion A (Man Tou)
4. Steam for 12 mins and mash into paste
5. Mix : Paste + Pau flour + yeast starter + water + baking powder + shortening + sugar
6. Knead the mixture into dough
7. Divide into small portions and place in fillings (such as redbean paste, kaya, char sau etc)
8. Leave for 30 mins and steam it>> DONE

Portion B (Dessert: Sweet potatoes soup)
9.Add water and boil together with this portion
10.After boiled, add in longan fleshs and pandan leaf
11. Continue cooking in small heat until the longan fleshs are cooked
12. add in salt and the soup is done

Thats all, 12 steps for 2 processed sweet potatoes
Easy, delicious n nutritious
ManTou can serve as breakfast while soup can serve as dessert.

If any1 of u want to have a try on this, contact me for the recipes.
email: hengpeiyong@yahoo.com