If you heat it warmly, you can make delicious sweet potatoes just by sprinkling salt or adding butter. It's convenient to use an oven toaster or steamer, but it's not always found in every home.

In this article, we will pick up 3 ways to steam and bake sweet potatoes without using an oven toaster or steamer. You can easily practice it with a frying pan or grilled fish.

Sweet potatoes steamed in a frying pan

How to steam sweet potatoes in an ordinary frying pan. First, fill a frying pan with water to a depth of 1 to 2 cm. Next, lay an oven sheet and put the whole sweet potatoes that have been washed clean.


After closing the lid, heat on medium heat, and when steam comes out, reduce the heat to low and leave it for 15 to 20 minutes. Open the lid, turn it upside down, and heat it for another 15 to 20 minutes. If the hot water in the frying pan is about to run out, add water and adjust the heating time. Try sticking a bamboo stick and go through it all the way to the end.



Sweet potatoes heated with plenty of steam have a beautiful golden finish. It has a moderately relaxed and moist feeling. It is recommended to use it as it is, as well as for cooking such as salads and simmered dishes, and for sweets such as chakin squeezing and sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes grilled on a fish grill

How to bake sweet potatoes on the grilled fish on the stove. First, wrap the washed sweet potatoes in aluminum foil.


Place in a grilled fish and bake on low to medium heat for 20 to 25 minutes. After turning off the heat, leave it for about 15 minutes and let it cook further with residual heat. If you have a single-sided grill, turn it over and bake the other side.




The baked sweet potatoes have a hooky texture reminiscent of stone-baked potatoes! By heating without adding water, the sweetness is concentrated. Even the edges that tend to be streaky are delicious with a fluffy feeling! Depending on the model of the grilled fish, the overheat prevention function will be activated, so it is necessary to adjust the heating time while interrupting the grilling as appropriate.

Sweet potatoes steamed in a rice cooker

A method of steaming sweet potatoes using the quick-cooking function of the rice cooker. Put sweet potatoes (1 medium) and water (150 ml) in the inner pot of the rice cooker, and start cooking rice in the quick-cooking mode.



When the water in the kettle is exhausted, the heating will end, so stab the sweet potato with a toothpick and check if it is cooked. If it is still hard, add 50-100 ml of water and press the fast-cook button again to heat it. When heating again, check the condition from time to time, and when it becomes soft, stop even during rice cooking.


Sweet potatoes that have been steamed well in a rice cooker are moist and easy to eat compared to using a microwave oven. The sweetness of sweet potatoes is also brought out moderately. The required heating time varies depending on the thickness of the sweet potato, so it is necessary to make appropriate adjustments, but it is an easy way to steam with just a click of a button.


How to steam and bake sweet potatoes that you can easily use the items you have at home. If you get a delicious sweet potato, why not give it a try? Please refer to the linked article attached to the text for the detailed procedure. We also recommend the convenient goods " Magic Yakiimo Nabe" and " Stone Yakiimo Black Sunfoil" introduced in the past.