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Hard-boiled sweet potato and chestnut
Balance of chestnut's nutty flavor and sweet potato's sweetness. Children likes it.
1 sweet potato, 15 chestnuts, 3 big spoonful of sugar, 2 cups of water.
1.Wash sweet potatoes clean and steam.
2.Peel off steamed sweet potato and force through sieve.
3.Put sugar and water into a pot and boil to make syrup.
4.Apply syrup to mashed sweet potato and mix evenly.
5.Put peeled-off chestnut into sweet potato mixed with syrup and boil it hard.
6.Boil it hard first and lessen fire gradually when it boils.
7.Boil it until chestnut is done.
*Note: if it is difficult to make syrup, millet jelly will do.