How To Dice a Sweet Potato Like a Professional Chef
Test your knife skills with perfect square dices of sweet potato. Let’s do this! Our Knife Skills series is sponsored by Cutco.
In culinary school we practiced our knife skills daily. Day in and day out we used potatoes to perfect our large, medium, and small dice; our julienne, brunoise, and even tournée. Potatoes are a great food to practice your own knife skills because they are cheap and you can get a lot of cuts from a single potato.
Today we are focusing on a medium dice, which is ½ inch x ½ inch x ½ inch. It’s a pretty versatile cut and can be used in something like a hash.
How to Dice Potatoes
Step #1
Peel the sweet potato with a vegetable peeler.
Step #2
Cut off the ends with a classic chef’s knife.
Step #3
Slice off the sides of the potato to square it.
Try to get it as square as possible without wasting your potato. It’s okay if it is not a perfect square.
Step #4
Make 1/2 inch slices through your potato. You can either eye-ball it or use a ruler.
Continue to cut all the potato. These are called batonnets.
Step #5
Turn the batonnets and cut into ½ inch slices, these are your medium diced sweet potatoes.
These potatoes are now ready for your recipe!
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How To Dice Sweet Potatoes
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 min
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 1 potato, diced 1x
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Test your knife skills with perfect square dices of sweet potato. Let’s do this!
Ingredients
- 1 sweet potato
Instructions
- Peel the sweet potato with a peeler.
- Cut off the ends with a classic chef’s knife.
- Slice the sides of the potato to square it.
- Make ½ inch slices through your potato. You can either eye-ball it or use a ruler. Continue to cut all the potato. These are called batonnets.
- Turn the batonnets and cut into ½ inch slices, these are your medium diced sweet potatoes. These potatoes are now ready for your recipe.
Disclosure: This article is sponsored by Cutco. All opinions are ours and honest.
This post originally appeared in October 2016 and was revised and republished in March 2020.
Thanks, I will have to try cutting it this way. The big, thick sweet potatoes are always a challenge to cut but making it a rough square so it stands in its side is a good idea.
You can do it, SJ!
Is there a way to store these for future use in the freezer? I would like to prep over the weekend and then pull out and broil them to go into a salad.