While you certainly can boil your sweet potatoes before roasting, it's not necessary and I would discourage it. Boiling sweet potatoes creates more steps, more dirty dishes, and it affects the taste for the worse in my opinion. 4 мар. 2019 г.
Is it better to boil or roast sweet potatoes?
Boiling sweet potatoes retains more beta-carotene and makes the nutrient more absorbable than other cooking methods such as baking or frying. Up to 92% of the nutrient can be retained by limiting the cook time, such as boiling in a pot with a tightly covered lid for 20 minutes.
Should you boil potatoes before roasting?
Boiling your potatoes for a little bit before roasting helps make sure that you get that beautiful crisp crust on the outside. If you don't parboil your spuds, the outside skin will remain quite tough, meaning that whatever fat you use will not be able to get inside the cracks.
Should you boil sweet potato first?
So when you peel the skin off before boiling, you're not only losing fiber, but you are also exposing some phytonutrients that can be damaged by heat. If, however, your recipe demands peeled sweet potatoes, boil them then, peel them thereafter, this way you'll be peeling the thinnest outmost skin.
Why is it better to boil sweet potatoes?
Boiling may actually retain most of the antioxidant power of sweet potatoes, compared to roasting and steaming. If we compare baking to boiling microscopically, boiling helps thin out the cell walls and gelatinize the starch, which may enhance the bioavailability of nutrients.
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