Yacon does look like a sweet potato, but it is far from sweet potato. The main component of sweet potato is starch, while yacon is an underground fruit, which is rich in vitamins and minerals. The fruit and seed of yacon grow separately, but they are the same. The seed part looks like ginger, and the fruit part looks like sweet potato. It has many functions. People with three high symptoms can lower blood fat, blood pressure and cholesterol. In addition, the sugar contained in yacon is fructooligosaccharide, so although it is sweet to eat, it is okay for diabetics to eat it, and fructooligosaccharide can regulate the stomach, and people with constipation can eat it immediately. Yacon can not only be eaten raw, but also stewed ribs, soup and juice.
Moist yacon soup
Materials:
One yacon, one carrot, half a catty of beef tendon, two pairs of chicken feet, and one and a half liters of water.
Exercise:
Boil beef tendon and chicken feet with water first, then skim the fat until the water boils, simmer for at least one and a half hours, then add yacon and carrot, and cook for another half hour.
Features:
This soup is delicious, clear and moist. But also has dietotherapy effect on people with high cholesterol and diabetes, and has the functions of detoxicating, preventing acne, reducing blood fat, regulating blood pressure, resolving food stagnation and moistening intestines.
Yacon meat and bone soup
Materials:
Yacon, meat bone, ginger, fig, salt
Exercise:
1. Flesh and blood flew into the water. Add water, ginger and figs and cook for half an hour.
2. Add yacon and stew for an hour. Season with salt.
Yacon chicken soup
Ingredients: yacon 500g, old hen 1 hen, 3 slices of ginger, and appropriate amount of salt.
Cooking method (three people):
1. Wash the old hen, chop it into large pieces, blanch it with boiling water, and drain it.
2. Peel the yacon and cut it into hob pieces and ginger slices.
3. Fill the casserole with appropriate amount of water, add chicken pieces and ginger slices and bring to a boil. Change the pot to low heat 1 hour.
4. Add yacon, then boil it on high fire, stew it for half an hour on low fire, and season with salt.