By Barr.Chf.Mrs Oluwatoyin Abegunde
How to process sweet potatoes to flour
1. Peel your sweet potatoes
2. Wash your sweet potatoes
3. Soak the sweet potatoes for 5days and be sure that the water is above the sweet potatoes each day.
4. Change the water daily. Drain the water from the sweet potatoes and put in a fresh water every day. This process takes out the sweetness from the potatoes
5. On the fifth day, the sweet potatoes will be soft.
Drain water from it and put the sweet potatoes in a sack.
6. Use a big stone or any heavy object to apply pressure on the sack to completely drain the water
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
9. Filter the potatoes flour
10. Procedure to prepare sweet potatoes flour is same as Amala, cassava flour, plantain flour and poundo yam.
