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! There are 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 mucilage polysaccharide 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 and nocturnal emission.

stewed yam balls

features: strong flavor with meat and vegetables.

preparation time: 5 minutes

cooking time: 15 minutes

raw materials: Chinese yam, minced meat, garlic sprouts, mushrooms, red pepper and egg liquid.

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

Practice:

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

2. Peel and cook the yam, 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 pan, and when the oil is hot, squeeze the meat into balls and fry them hard in the oil pan before taking them out.

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

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

stewed beef brisket with yam

features: the beef brisket melts in the mouth, and it blends with the taste of yam skillfully.

preparation time: 8 minutes

cooking time: 25 minutes

raw materials: yam and beef brisket.

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

Practice:

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

2. put the oil in the pan, first fry the star anise, then stir-fry the onion and ginger, add cooking wine and water, add the brisket, stir-fry and put it in a pressure cooker for 2 minutes, then 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-brewed yam

Features: beautiful appearance, fresh and tender taste, so you might as well try it at a family banquet.

preparation time: 15 minutes

cooking time: 15 minutes

raw materials: 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 and wash the yam and cut it into thin slices, mince the ham and shred the cucumber skin.

2. Beat the chicken breast into mud with a blender, and then add the onion Jiang Shui; Beat the egg whites well.

3. Take one side of yam slices, first apply dry starch, then apply a layer of chicken paste, smooth it, then decorate it with minced ham and yellow melon skin to form 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 color and crisp taste.

preparation time: 5 minutes

cooking time: 5 minutes

raw materials: 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 diced corn kernels.

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.

yam stir-fried pork slices

Features: smooth and tender, salty and fresh.

preparation time: 5 minutes

cooking time: 5 minutes

raw materials: yam, dried fungus and pork tenderloin.

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

Practice:

1. Peel and wash the yam, 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 cold oil. When the oil temperature is 2-3% hot, the meat slices will be smooth and tender, and at the same time, the tablets and auricularia auricula will be cooked, and then pour out to control the oil.

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 with water starch, and then pour in the freshly prepared vegetables and stir-fry evenly.

spun yam

Features: sweet and crisp, and slender and bright sugar filaments can be pulled out between each yam.

preparation time: 3 minutes

cooking time: 5 minutes

raw material: yam.

seasoning: soft sugar and dry starch.

Practice:

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

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

3. when the sugar solution 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

characteristics: golden color and delicious taste.

preparation time: 5 minutes

cooking time: 2 minutes

raw material: yam.

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

Practice:

1. Peel, wash and steam yam for 12 minutes, then 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 flour, glutinous rice flour and dough into the yam paste, and then make them into small round cakes.

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

yam bean curd soup

features: delicious taste and smooth entrance.

preparation time: 3 minutes

cooking time: 5 minutes

raw materials: yam, box tofu, egg liquid, mushrooms and 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 of tofu into dices as big as the yam.

2. wash and dice coriander, and wash and dice 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 mixture and sprinkle with coriander powder.