How To Cook Yam In Microwave
To microwave whole yams.
How to cook yam in microwave. Just wash your sweet tubers and poke a bunch of holes in them with a fork then place them on a paper towel or microwave safe plate and microwave them for five minutes at full power turning halfway through the cook. Microwave on high 8 to 10 minutes or until tender turning yams once. Arrange the yams sweet potatoes in a circle in a pyrex or microwave safe dish.
If you re only cooking one yam it should take only 5 minutes. Place the potato on a microwave safe plate. If you re cooking several yams you ll need about 5 minutes for each yam.
Continue this process until the yams are soft to touch. Cut yams into quarters. Microwave covered at 100 power high.
Pierce the potato three or four times with a fork. The prep is easy. To microwave sliced yams.
For one sweet potato microwave on 100 percent power for 5 minutes rotating halfway through. Wash peel and cut off the woody portions and ends. Cover the yams sweet potatoes with a damp paper towel and nuke on high for 5 minutes.
Then rotate the yams and nuke for another 5 minutes. If it isn t fork tender after five minutes continue to microwave in one minute increments until done. Also add a minute or two if you re cooking firmer pale fleshed sweet potatoes rather than the softer orange fleshed sweet potatoes known commonly as yams.