I bought a 2.5-pound chicken from Whole Foods. I happened to meet fresh taro in China City, and I snatched it from you at once. It's only the size of a golf ball. I used to buy big taro, but this small taro is not delicious. I used 450 grams.

Seasoning:

20g of pickled ginger, 40g of garlic, 2-3g of pepper, 60g of Pixian watercress, 0/0g of cooking wine/kloc-0, a proper amount of dried red pepper, and 0/0g of sugar/kloc-0.

Proper amount of oil and salt.

working methods

(1) Wash the chicken, chop it into small squares, add water and boil it to remove blood foam, then pour water and take it out for later use. Peel taro and cut into rolls.

? Cut garlic in half, soak ginger and slice.

(2) Add oil to the pot, add ginger, garlic cloves, pepper, Pixian watercress and a little dried red pepper, stir-fry until fragrant, and add chicken pieces.

? Cooked taro, add cooking wine, chicken and taro with water, cover the pot and boil, then add sugar.

? Turn off the heat for 30 minutes until the taro is soft and waxy.

Nutritional value of taro

(1) Taro is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, carotene, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, B vitamins and saponins. Among minerals, fluorine content is high, which has the functions of cleaning teeth, preventing caries and protecting teeth.

(2) Its rich nutritional value can enhance human immune function and can be used as a staple food for cancer prevention and treatment. It plays an auxiliary role in cancer surgery or postoperative radiotherapy, chemotherapy and its rehabilitation;

(3) Taro contains a mucin, which can be absorbed by the human body to produce immunoglobulin or antibody globulin, which can improve the body's resistance. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that taro can detoxify, inhibit and digest swelling and toxic pain of human body, including cancer toxin, and can be used to prevent and treat tumors and lymphoid tuberculosis.

(4) Taro is an alkaline food, which can neutralize the accumulated acidic substances in the body, adjust the acid-base balance of the human body, produce the effects of beauty beauty and blackening hair, and can also be used for preventing and treating hyperacidity;

(5) Taro is rich in mucosaponin and various trace elements, which can help the human body to correct the physiological abnormalities caused by the lack of trace elements, stimulate appetite and help digestion at the same time, so Chinese medicine believes that taro can tonify the middle energizer and replenish qi.

Taro taboo crowd

For those with phlegm, allergic constitution (urticaria, eczema, asthma, allergic rhinitis), children with food stagnation and poor appetite, and diabetic patients, eat less; People with food stagnation, stomachache and damp heat in the stomach are not suitable for eating.