Beef stew with yam is delicious and nutritious. Once you learn it, you can make it every week! The following is how to make yam stewed beef soup for your reference.
Ingredients:
250 grams of beef, 200 grams of yam, oil, ginger, dried chili peppers, cooking wine, light soy sauce, and green onions.
Method:
1. Cut the beef into cubes and put them into boiling water, remove and drain; wash, peel and cut the yam into cubes.
2. Heat oil in a wok, sauté ginger slices and Sichuan peppercorns until fragrant, then add beef cubes and stir-fry while adding cooking wine and light soy sauce, add boiling water to cover the beef, add dried chili peppers, and bring to a boil Skim off the foam.
3. Pour the beef from the wok into the stew pot together with the soup, simmer for about 1 hour until the beef is crispy, add yam cubes, cover and simmer over low heat for another 20 minutes, remove from the pot and sprinkle Decorate with green onion.
Effects of yam
1. Nourishing and fitness, delaying aging
Yam has the functions of nourishing cells, strengthening endocrine, tonifying and strengthening, and enhancing the body’s hematopoietic function. It induces interferon, improves the body's immune function, improves disease resistance, etc., and plays an important role in delaying aging. Yams are rich in trace elements beneficial to the human body, and have functions such as nourishing blood, nourishing the brain, nourishing the kidneys, and anti-aging.
2. It can reduce astringency, strengthen the intestines and stop diarrhea.
Yam can nourish yin and diuresis, lubricate and reduce astringency. It can treat loose stools because it facilitates urination. It allows water to be discharged from the bladder and reduces the water in the intestines, thus reducing the symptoms of loose stools.
Yam strengthens the spleen, stomach and intestines, and can stop diarrhea. Because yam can calm the spleen and strengthen the function of nourishing qi and moving the spleen, it can stop defecation.
3. Prevent and treat coronary heart disease caused by arteriosclerosis
①. Yams can supply a large amount of mucus protein to the human body. This is a mixture of polysaccharides and proteins that has special health care effects on the human body. It can prevent fat deposition in the cardiovascular system and avoid excessive obesity.
②. The amylase contained in yam can decompose into protein and sugar, important substances that maintain human life, and can help lose weight. The sitosterol contained in yam has the effect of lowering blood cholesterol and has certain effects on the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease and hypercholesterolemia.
③. The more than 20 kinds of nutrients contained in yam, such as mucilage, amylase, amino acids, trace elements, and vitamins, have the function of fighting arteriosclerosis and improving blood supply to the myocardium.
④. Dopamine, one of the important components of yam, has the function of dilating blood vessels and improving blood circulation. This component plays an important role in the treatment of circulatory failure
⑤. It has the functions of regulating endocrine, nourishing Qi and unblocking meridians, improving coronary artery and microcirculatory blood flow, and treating coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, etc.
4. Improve intelligence and brain health
Yam is rich in choline and lecithin, which helps improve the memory of the human brain. Yams are rich in nutrients and can enhance the activity of nerve cells, replenish the heart, calm the mind, cure forgetfulness, nourish the mind and improve the mind, and enhance memory function.
5. Replenish deficiency, lower blood sugar, and treat diabetes
①. Yam has a mild nature and flavor, neither cold nor dry. It can replenish the five internal organs and is an important medicine for treating deficiency diseases. Diabetes is mainly caused by yin deficiency, dryness and heat. Yin deficiency, dryness and heat can quench thirst. Edible yam has a beneficial yin effect, so yam can treat diabetes.
②. The glycoprotein contained in yam is hydrolyzed into protein and sugar in the body, which has the effect of lowering blood sugar. The amylase contained in yam can help digest food and hydrolyze starch into glucose. Therefore, it has a certain effect on diabetes and can also be eaten by people with weak gastrointestinal problems.
③. Yams can not only replenish qi but also nourish yin, replenishing without stagnation, nourishing without being greasy, replenishing spleen and replenishing stomach yin. It is an important medicine for replenishing the spleen and stomach, and is suitable for long-term consumption by diabetic patients. , has significant effect on mild diabetes.
6. Replenish qi, relieve cough and relieve asthma
Yam has the effects of nourishing the lungs and qi, nourishing yin and relieving cough, regulating the lungs and resolving phlegm. It can treat lung deficiency, insufficient qi and yin, Shortness of breath, persistent cough, asthma, etc. Yam has the functions of nourishing nutrients, inducing interferon, enhancing the body's immunity, regulating endocrine, antitussive and expectorant, and relieving asthma. It can treat chronic bronchitis.
7. Weight loss, beauty, skin care and beauty
The weight loss, beauty, skin care and beauty of yam are not only useful for girls, but also have the same effect on middle-aged and elderly male and female friends. Middle-aged and elderly people who often consume yam can make themselves look younger, make their skin rosy and shiny, and have a youthful appearance. For patients with ichthyosis, long-term consumption of yam can make the skin white, smooth and moist.
8. Fill the essence and strengthen the kidneys, enhance sexual function
The yam nourishes the lungs, spleen, kidneys, and triple burner qi and yin, fills the essence and strengthens the kidneys, astringes the essence and stops the discharge, and regulates the qi and blood. Biochemically active, it is an important medicine for Qi and Yin deficiency and lower Jiao deficiency. It has good curative effect on kidney deficiency, nocturnal emissions, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, and impotence. It has a good effect on the decline of sexual function caused by kidney deficiency in middle-aged and elderly people.
9. Fill the essence and strengthen the kidneys, and treat frequent urination
Frequent urination is very common after people reach old age, especially frequent nocturnal urination. This is mainly due to the lack of kidney qi in the elderly. Gu, due to the decline of kidney yang.
Severe frequent urination causes great pain to the elderly and affects their life and health. Regular consumption of yam can fill the essence and strengthen the kidneys, which has a significant effect on the treatment of frequent urination. Frequent urination is closely related to urinary retention. I always feel that my urine is not clean, and I feel like urinating again after urinating once. Yam can not only fill the essence and strengthen the kidney, but also has a diuretic effect, which can effectively overcome the symptoms of urinary retention. Achieve the effect of treating frequent urination.
10. Rich in organic germanium, which can treat cancer
Yam is rich in many trace elements that are beneficial to the human body, especially rich in organic germanium, which has anti-cancer effects. Yams have the characteristics of warming but not drying, slightly fragrant but not drying, so they are very suitable for dietary therapy for cancer patients.
11. Enhance the human body’s digestion and absorption function, treat loss of appetite and indigestion
Yam can strengthen the spleen and stomach, make the spleen and stomach healthy, enhance the body’s digestion and absorption function, and increase appetite. It enhances physical fitness and has a good effect on loss of appetite, anorexia in children, and indigestion.
12. Soften and dissipate hard knots, and treat redness, induration, and tuberculosis that are hard but not ulcerable
Pounded yam for external application has the effect of softening and dispersing knots, and can treat redness, induration, and tuberculosis that are hard and not ulcerable. Symptoms. It also has good curative effect on inflammatory diseases such as mastitis, breast swelling and pain, boils, and chilblains.
13. Strengthen bone quality and treat rickets
After the mucus polysaccharide substances in yam are combined with inorganic salts, they can form bone and make cartilage have a certain elasticity, so it is good for cartilage. The disease has a certain effect.
14. Prevent the atrophy of connective tissue and prevent the occurrence of collagen disease
Yam can prevent the atrophy of connective tissue in the liver and kidneys, prevent the occurrence of collagen disease, and maintain the health of the digestive tract, respiratory tract, and lubrication of the joint cavity.
15. Tonifying the middle and replenishing qi can make people's ears and eyes bright.
Yam yam can nourish qi, grow muscles, and strengthen yin. Regular consumption of yam can make people's ears, eyes and ears bright, and the body can't be made light of. Hungry, longevity.