1, steamed yam
If you are recovering from a serious illness and have no appetite, you can choose the simplest steaming method. Peel the yam, cut it into pieces, steam it in a pot, and then dip it in sugar to eat. It is fresh, soft, sweet and delicious. This way of eating is soft and rotten, and it is also suitable for patients with chronic diseases, such as hypertension and stomach diseases. Women who like sweets and are weak in constitution can also steam yam and pour it with cooked honey juice to nourish yin and replenish blood.
Step 3 stew yam
Yam stewed chicken is suitable for nourishing the spleen and stomach in autumn and winter. Cut the yam into pieces, press the chicken pieces in the pressure cooker for three times until they are cooked, pour the yam pieces and add auxiliary materials such as Lycium barbarum, and stew for 20 minutes on low heat. Stewed ribs with yam, tonifying kidney and filling essence. Wash the ribs with hot water, then put them in a pot and cook for 20 minutes. Add the chopped yam, add other ingredients to taste, and then continue to cook on medium heat 15 minutes.
Braised yam porridge
Add yam slices and a few torn red dates when cooking porridge, which is most suitable for children and the elderly. Because the teeth of these two kinds of people are not very good, and the digestive system is weak, yam porridge is very easy to digest. In addition, people with weak spleen and stomach or indigestion are also suitable for drinking yam porridge. In addition, you can also make peanut yam porridge, medlar yam porridge, longan yam porridge, pumpkin yam porridge and so on.
What are the benefits of eating yam?
1, strengthening the spleen and stomach, helping digestion. Yam is rich in starch. Eating a few slices of yam may produce a strong feeling of fullness, but it is especially suitable for helping us digest and absorb. People with spleen deficiency or yin deficiency are suitable for eating.
2. Strong body. Yam contains a variety of nutrients and has the function of strengthening the body. For example, men with kidney deficiency or nocturnal emission, women with heavy leucorrhea or frequent urination can eat more yam.
3, benefit the lungs and relieve cough. Yam contains saponin and mucus, so it has the function of lubricating and moistening. This sticky taste is not only favored by some people, but also can benefit lung qi, nourish lung yin and treat lung deficiency, excessive phlegm and chronic cough.
4. lower blood sugar. Yam tastes sticky and slippery, which is the function of mucin, and this protein can help lower blood sugar in human body, which has a certain effect on treating diabetes, so it is the gospel of diabetic patients.
5. Control the desire to eat. Because yam contains a lot of starch, eating yam is easy to feel full. Sticky yam tastes good and is rich in digestive enzymes, which can prevent cardiovascular fat deposition and improve our digestion and absorption ability.
Matters needing attention in eating yam
1 is not equal to carrot. Don't eat with carrots, cucumbers and pumpkins, and don't put yam and carrots together when stewing soup. There are many examples of poisoning caused by them. Yam is rich in vitamin C, and carrots, cucumbers and pumpkins are rich in vitamin C-decomposing enzymes. If you eat them together, the vitamin C in yam will be broken down and destroyed.
2. Don't eat with pig liver. Yam is rich in vitamin C, and pig liver contains trace elements such as copper, iron and zinc. When vitamin C meets metal ions, it will accelerate oxidative damage and reduce its nutritional value. Therefore, it is not suitable to eat yam after eating pig liver. 3. Don't eat with seafood. General seafood (including fish, shrimp and algae) is rich in protein besides minerals such as calcium, iron, phosphorus and iodine, while yam contains tannic acid, which will synthesize protein tannic acid if mixed. This substance has astringent effect, will form constipation, increase the absorption of intestinal toxins, and cause abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms.