It has long been known that yam is a good food and medicine. However, compared with other vegetables, it seems a bit tasteless. Want to make yam more delicious? Then you must know at least eight flavors of it! Four reasons to love it:

1. It is rich in nutrition and contains a variety of nutrients necessary for human body.

2. It can supply a large amount of mucin to human body, which is a mixture of polysaccharide and protein, and has a special protective effect on human body. It can prevent the fat deposition of cardiovascular system, keep the elasticity of arterial blood vessels and prevent the premature occurrence of atherosclerosis.

3. The mucinous polysaccharides of yam, if combined with inorganic salts, can form bone and make cartilage elastic.

4. Chinese medicine believes that Chinese yam has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, lung and kidney, and has curative effects on cough and asthma due to lung deficiency, chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, chronic gastroenteritis, diabetes, nocturnal emission and other diseases.

Braised yam balls

Features: the combination of meat and vegetables has a strong flavor.

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients: Chinese yam, minced meat, garlic bolt, shiitake mushroom, red pepper and egg liquid.

Seasoning: cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, pepper, soy sauce, starch, soup, onion and ginger.

Practice:

1. Wash garlic bolts and cut into sections, wash mushrooms and red peppers and cut into pieces.

2. Peel the yam and cook it, then press it into mud, add minced meat, egg liquid, cooking wine, salt and pepper and stir it into meat stuffing.

3. Put a lot of oil in the pot. After the oil is hot, squeeze the meat stuffing into a ball shape and fry it in the oil pan to remove it.

4. Leave a little oil in the pot to stir-fry the onion and ginger, and season with cooking wine, soy sauce, soup, sugar, monosodium glutamate, salt and pepper.

5. When the meatballs are cooked, garlic shoots, mushrooms and red peppers are cooked and thickened with water starch.

Stewed beef brisket with yam

Features: the brisket melts in the mouth and blends with the taste of yam skillfully.

Preparation time: 8 minutes

Cooking time: 25 minutes

Raw materials: yam, beef brisket.

Seasoning: star anise, onion, ginger, cooking wine, sugar, monosodium glutamate, salt, chicken essence and chopped pepper.

Practice:

1. Wash yam, peel and cut into pieces, cut brisket into small pieces and blanch to remove foam.

2. Put the oil in the pot, fry the star anise, stir-fry the onion and ginger, add cooking wine and water, add the brisket, stir fry and put it in a pressure cooker for 20 minutes to take it out.

3. Put oil in the pot, pour in the brisket, add yam, sugar, chopped pepper, monosodium glutamate, salt and chicken essence to taste, and stew together until soft and rotten.

Orchid stuffed yam

Features: Beautiful appearance, fresh and tender taste, you may wish to have a try when having a family dinner.

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients: Chinese yam, chicken breast, ham and cucumber skin.

Seasoning: salt, monosodium glutamate, dried starch, water starch, chicken essence, egg white, onion, ginger and water.

Practice:

1. Peel the yam, wash it, cut it obliquely into thin slices, mince the ham, and shred the cucumber skin.

2. The chicken breast is mashed with a blender, and then the onion Jiang Shui is added; Beat the egg whites well.

3. Take a yam slice and apply dry starch on one side, then apply a layer of chicken paste. After smoothing, decorate it with minced ham and yellow melon skin into an orchid shape, and steam it in a plate for 15 minutes.

4. Add water to the pot, add salt, monosodium glutamate and chicken essence to taste, and then thicken it with water starch and pour it on the orchid yam.

Assorted yam granules

Features: bright colors and crisp taste.

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time: 5 minutes

Ingredients: Chinese yam, green pepper and canned corn kernels.

Seasoning: sugar, monosodium glutamate, salt, water starch, fresh soup (can be replaced by water).

Practice:

1. Peel the yam and wash the green pepper, and cut them into corn-grain-sized dices.

2. Add water to the pot. When the water boils, blanch the yam and green pepper.

3. put a little oil in the pot, add yam and green pepper, stir fry for a while and then add a little fresh soup.

4. Then add sugar, monosodium glutamate and salt, and finally thicken with water starch.

Fried pork slices with Chinese yam

Features: smooth and tender, salty and fresh.

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time: 5 minutes

Ingredients: yam, dried fungus, pork tenderloin.

Seasoning: cooking wine, sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, egg white, water starch and chopped green onion.

Practice:

1. Peel the yam, wash it, cut it in half, and then slice it with an oblique knife; Soak dried auricularia auricula in water until soft, remove the roots and wash.

2. Slice the tenderloin and add salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, egg white and water starch for sizing.

3. Heat the pan, pour a small amount of cold oil into the pan and pour it out, then pour in cold oil. When the oil temperature is 20 ~ 30% hot, the meat slices will be smooth and tender. At the same time, the tablets and fungus will be cooked down the mountain, and the oil will be controlled.

4. Leave a little oil in the pot, stir-fry chopped green onion, add cooking wine, water, salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar and pepper to taste, thicken it with water starch, and then pour in the freshly prepared vegetables and stir well.

Chinese Yam in Hot Toffee

Features: sweet and crisp, and each yam can be pulled out with long and thin crystal sugar filaments.

Preparation time: 3 minutes

Cooking time: 5 minutes

Raw material: yam.

Seasoning: soft sugar, dry starch.

Practice:

1. Wash the yam, peel it and cut it into prismatic pieces. After controlling the water, dip it in dry starch, then fry it in the oil pan until golden brown and take it out.

2. Wash the pot, put a little oil, add soft sugar and a little water and stir well with low fire.

3. When the sugar liquid is fried to yellow, pour in the freshly fried yam pieces and stir well.

4. Finally, put it in a dish with cold oil.

Yam cake

Features: golden color and delicious taste.

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Raw material: yam.

Seasoning: glutinous rice flour, cooked flour (available in supermarkets), bread crumbs, starch and eggs.

Practice:

1. Peel and clean the yam, steam it in a pan for 12 minutes, take it out and press it into yam paste.

2. Boil the cooked noodles with hot water and beat the eggs into egg liquid.

3. Add the flour, glutinous rice flour and dough into the yam mud, and then make them into round cakes respectively.

4. Dip the yam cake in the flour and egg liquid in turn, wrap the bread crumbs on the outermost layer, and fry in the oil pan until golden brown.

Yam bean curd soup

Features: delicious taste, smooth entrance.

Preparation time: 3 minutes

Cooking time: 5 minutes

Ingredients: yam, box tofu, egg liquid, mushrooms, coriander.

Seasoning: fresh soup, salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, pepper and water starch.

Practice:

1. Peel and dice the yam and blanch it. Cut the box tofu into dices as big as the yam.

2. Wash and dice the coriander, and wash and dice the mushrooms.

3. Add fresh soup to the pot, add the main ingredients, and then add salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence and pepper to taste.

4. When the soup is boiling, thicken it with water starch until it is thick, pour in the egg liquid and sprinkle with coriander powder.