Test your knife skills with perfect square dices of sweet potato. Let’s do this! Our Knife Skills series is sponsored by Cutco.
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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 Peel the Sweet Potato](https://thecookful.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Sweet-Potato-Hash-EbookDiced-Sweet-Potatoes-1-DSC_6125-blog-photo-680x453.jpg)
Peel the sweet potato with a vegetable peeler.
Step #2
![Cut off the ends Cut off the ends](https://thecookful.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Sweet-Potato-Hash-EbookDiced-Sweet-Potatoes-2-DSC_6126-blog-photo-680x453.jpg)
Cut off the ends with a classic chef’s knife.
Step #3
![Slice the sides Slice the sides](https://thecookful.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Sweet-Potato-Hash-EbookDiced-Sweet-Potatoes-3-DSC_6129-blog-photo-680x453.jpg)
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.
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Step #4
![Slice into 1/2 inch pieces Slice into 1/2 inch pieces](https://thecookful.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Sweet-Potato-Hash-EbookDiced-Sweet-Potatoes-5-DSC_6131-blog-photo-680x453.jpg)
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.
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Step #5
![Make medium dice cuts Make medium dice cuts](https://thecookful.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Sweet-Potato-Hash-EbookDiced-Sweet-Potatoes-7-DSC_6134-blog-photo-680x453.jpg)
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
Test your knife skills with perfect square dices of sweet potato. Let’s do this!
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 min
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 1 potato, diced 1x
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.
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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? Â I would like to prep over the weekend and then pull out and broil them to go into a salad.