30/11/2024
HOW TO PROCESS SWEET POTATOES TO FLOUR FOR BAKING
1. Peel your sweet potatoes
2. Wash your sweet potatoes thoroughly
3. Soak the sweet potatoes for 5days inside water and be sure that the water is above the sweet potatoes each day.
4. Change the water daily to prevent the water from smelling bad.Drain the water from the sweet potatoes and put in a fresh water every day. This process takes out the sweetness from the potatoes completely
5. On the fifth day, the sweet potatoes will be soft.
Drain water from it and put all the sweet potatoes inside a sack.
6. Use a big stone or any heavy object to apply pressure on the sack to completely drain the water or you can use a mortal,by placing it at the top of the sack to ensure that no water remains in the potatoes
If you have a dehydrator you can use it
7. When the water is drained, Sun dry the sweet potatoes for days till it's very dry or use dehydrator.
8. Take the sweet potatoes to the engine and grind to smooth powder.dry grind, no water must be added
9. Filter the potatoes flour
10. Procedure to prepare sweet potatoes flour is almost the same with the yam flour,Amala, cassava flour, plantain flour etc
Uses of Sweet potatoes flour
1.It can be used as a substitute for Allpurpose flour
2.It can be used to prepare swallow
3.You can use it for Pastries,cakes,biscuits etc
4 .And guess what?it can be used to make bread
Sweet Potatoes has a whole lots of Nutritional benefits to our health.
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