Yam is rich in starch, tastes powdery, and has the functions of invigorating spleen and stomach, tonifying lung, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence. It is suitable for stewing soup with some meat ingredients such as ribs, mutton and pork. It tastes salty, fragrant and soft, with balanced nutrition and is very nourishing. Hu Aishan can also be served with sweet soup made of lily and tremella, which tastes very good.

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Practice of yam ribs soup

Ingredients: 500g sparerib, half a yam, proper amount of Lycium barbarum, one carrot, proper amount of ginger, cooking wine 1 teaspoon, a few drops of white vinegar, one star anise and proper amount of salt.

Practice steps

1 500g sparerib, half a yam, proper amount of Lycium barbarum, one carrot, proper amount of ginger, cooking wine 1 teaspoon, a few drops of white vinegar, one star anise and proper amount of salt.

2. Wash yam, peel it and cut it into hob blocks for later use; Carrots are also cut into hob pieces.

3. put half a pot of water, add the washed ribs and boil over high fire. At this time, there will be a layer of foam on the noodle soup, which is boiled blood. Turn off the fire, remove the ribs and wash them.

4. Put a proper amount of water into the casserole and bring it to a boil (once enough, don't add any water in the middle). Put the ribs together with ginger, cooking wine and star anise, and turn to low heat after the fire is boiled.

Adding a few drops of white vinegar at this time can not only make the calcium in the ribs dissolve into the soup, but also make the soup more delicious. Don't add too much vinegar, or the ribs will go bad.

6. Cook on low heat for one hour, then add yam and carrot, cook on low heat 1 hour, and season with medlar and salt.

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Stewed duck soup with yam

Ingredients: grass duck 1/2, iron stick yam 1/2, 2 slices of ginger, onion knot 1, cooking wine 1 tablespoon, appropriate amount of salt and a little pepper.

Practice steps:

1. Wash the duck, chop it, put it in a pot with cold water, cook it, and skim off the foam.

2. Add ginger slices, onion knots and cooking wine and cook for about half an hour.

3. Wash the yam, peel it and cut it into hob pieces, and soak it in water for later use. When the duck is cooked to 80% maturity, add yam and continue to cook for about 20 minutes.

4. When the yam becomes soft and the duck meat can be poked through with chopsticks, remove the ginger slices and onion knots, add salt and pepper and turn off the fire.

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The practice of mutton yam soup

Ingredients: 300 grams of mutton, 30 grams of yam, and appropriate amount of salt.

Practice steps:

1. Wash and blanch the mutton, peel and cut the yam.

2. Put the yam and mutton into the pot and cook.

3. Season with salt and put it in a bowl.

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Practice of Sweet Soup of Yam and Tremella

Ingredients: half tremella, half yam, Sydney 1 piece, a handful of lotus seeds and medlar, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Practice steps:

1. Tremella, Lycium barbarum and lotus seeds are soaked and washed; Peel the yam and cut it into small pieces; Peel and core Sydney and cut it into small pieces.

2. Put tremella, lotus seeds and yam into a casserole, add water (water doesn't reach the ingredients), and then simmer for 20 minutes.

3. Then add pear pieces and simmer 15 minutes.

4. Finally, add rock sugar and medlar and stew for 5 minutes until all the materials are soft and rotten.

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Yams are forbidden to be eaten together.

1. kansui: kansui is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effect of catharsis and drainage, can stimulate the intestine and produce catharsis, while yam has the effect of astringing and stopping diarrhea, so it is not suitable to eat it together.

2. Alkaline drugs: Yam contains amylase. Alkaline drugs will make amylase in yam ineffective and reduce its nutritional value, such as drugs that reduce gastric acid secretion.

3. Gas-producing foods: such as sweet potatoes, soybeans and black beans. Avoid eating too much with yam, because yam itself is rich in starch and difficult to digest. If you eat it with gas-producing food again, you will be prone to bloating and farting. Very uncomfortable and embarrassing.