Dioscorea opposita is a root vegetable, with a slender cylindrical shape, brown skin and milky white cross-section. When cooked, it tastes soft and similar to potatoes. Although it is unattractive and has a similar taste to potatoes, its nutritional value cannot be underestimated. Yam is a good product for lung, spleen and kidney. It has the functions of tonifying the middle energizer, benefiting qi, growing muscles and strengthening yin. After long-term administration, it can keep your eyes and ears smart, and you are not hungry for a long time, so it has the reputation of "Little Ginseng". October to November is the harvest time of yam every year. At this time, yam is of good quality and richer in nutrition. You may wish to buy more during this season and cook it for your family.

whenever it comes to autumn, Chinese yam is indispensable in my family, and it is often used to make all kinds of delicious food. So, what kind of delicious food will you make with Chinese yam when there is only Chinese yam at home? Let's share how I use it to cook all kinds of food. 1. Chinese yam jujube cake

Ingredients: 2 Chinese yams, 6 red dates, 1g cranberries and 5g

Production process:

Remove the skin of Chinese yam, cut it into small pieces and put it on a plate for later use; Clean the red dates, put them together with the yam in a pan and steam them in a steamer. Tear off the skin of steamed jujube while it is hot, then remove the jujube core and cut it into small pieces for later use; Yam is pressed into fine yam mud with tools while it is hot; Wash cranberries, cut them into smaller particles with a knife and put them in a plate for later use; Pour the chopped red dates and cranberries into the yam mud, take them to the kitchen and grab them evenly with gloves; Wash the moon cake mold, brush a thin layer of cooked oil on the inner surface of the mold, take a piece of about 2g of Chinese yam and red jujube paste, reunite it by hand, put it into the mold, and demould it after compaction. 2. Yam Euryale ferox roll

Ingredients: 1 yam, 1 handful of Euryale ferox, 1 egg, 5g flour, 5 red dates and a little vegetable oil

Production process;

Gordon Euryale seeds are washed and soaked for one night in advance; Peeling and slicing Chinese yam, and steaming the soaked Euryale ferox in a steamer; Steamed yam is pounded into fine yam paste with a rolling pin while it is hot; Wash the jujube to remove the stone, then cut it into small pieces, put it in the wall-breaking machine with the steamed Gordon Euryale, and add a little water to make it into pulp. Pour the jujube Gordon Euryale seed slurry into a basin, beat in an egg, add a little flour, and stir with chopsticks into a flowing thin paste. Pour a few plants into a hot pot, scoop a spoonful of red jujube Euryale ferox batter into the pot, spread it evenly, roll it up and cut it into small pieces with a knife. 3. Yam glutinous rice cake

This yam cake is made of red dates and glutinous rice flour, which is soft and delicious and easy to make. Glutinous rice contains nutrients such as protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, nicotinic acid, etc. Chinese medicine believes that glutinous rice is warm, can warm the spleen and stomach, and can be regarded as a warm and strong food, so it can be eaten in moderation at ordinary times, especially for children with weak spleen and stomach.

ingredients; 3g of Chinese yam, 8 red dates, 15g of glutinous rice flour and a little sugar < P > Production process: < P > Peel and slice Chinese yam; Carefully brush the red dates with a small brush and steam them in a steamer. Pour glutinous rice flour into a clean wok, stir-fry it over low heat, and turn it over with a shovel in the process of frying, so as not to fry it. When the glutinous rice flour turns from white to yellowish, and you can smell the noodles, it means it is cooked. Turn off the fire and serve it out. Mash steamed yam into mud, add fried glutinous rice flour and a little sugar, and make soft yam dough. Peel and core the steamed red dates, and then grind them into jujube paste with a spoon. Take a moon cake mold, coat some glutinous rice flour inside to prevent sticking, pull together a good yam dough, wrap the jujube paste like a bean paste bag, put it into the mold after reunion, and compact and demould it. 4. Chinese yam and vegetable cake

If your child doesn't like vegetables, you can chop them up and bake them in flour. Today, we share that diced vegetables are added to yam mud, which is salty, fragrant, soft and delicious. It is very suitable for both old people and children, because it is simple to make and takes less time, and it is also good for office workers to eat as breakfast.

Ingredients: 1 yam, 2 shallots, 1 ham sausage, 1 carrot, 1g starch, appropriate amount of salt, oil and pepper

Production process: peeled yam and cut into small pieces; Wash carrots and cut them into pieces; Chop shallots into pieces; Cut the ham sausage into small pieces. The yam is steamed in a pan, and then it is ground into mud with a spoon. Add carrot granules, minced chives, ham granules and a little potato starch in turn, and then add water, salt and pepper in turn, and it is best to make a soft yam dough. Put on disposable gloves, divide the dough into several dough pieces of uniform size, reunite them separately and press them flat, preheat the electric baking pan and brush them with a little oil, put the raw yam embryo on them and bake them. 5. Yam two-color muffin

Yam and purple potato are made into muffins, which are bright in color, soft, fluffy and nutritious. It takes a little time to make dough, but you can make more at a time. If you can't finish it, you can put it in the refrigerator for three or four days. It's good for breakfast or usual snacks.

ingredients: 1 yam, 1 purple sweet potato, 1g of flour, 2 eggs, 2g of sugar, 4g of yeast powder, and appropriate amount of oil

production process: the purple sweet potato and the yam are washed, peeled and sliced respectively, and then put into plates, steamed and cooked, and then beaten into fine paste by a cooking machine. Pour yam paste and purple potato paste into different pots, add one egg, a little sugar and 2g yeast in turn, and stir them evenly with chopsticks. Add flour to the two pastes respectively, and stir with chopsticks to form a paste that is not easy to flow. Take a mold or stainless steel basin, evenly coat the inside with vegetable oil, pour a spoonful of purple potato batter, then pour a spoonful of yam batter, so that the two kinds of batter are alternately poured into the mold, be careful not to be too full, sprinkle some washed raisins on the top, then shake the mold to make the batter even and flat, cover with plastic wrap, and conduct the second fermentation. Steaming the batter after the second awakening, steaming for 4 minutes after the fire boils, turning off the fire, stewing for 3 minutes, opening the lid, taking it out, demoulding and cutting it into small pieces. 6. Chinese yam and chestnut porridge

Late autumn is also the season when fresh chestnuts are on the market. Besides frying, cooking porridge is also very good. This porridge uses millet as the main ingredient. Drinking a bowl in the morning of late autumn is not only comfortable for the stomach and body, but also helpful for strengthening the spleen and stomach.

ingredients: 1 yam, 1 chestnuts, 3g millet, and 1 medlar

production process: put chestnuts with shells in a pot, add water, boil for three minutes, then turn off the heat, and peel off the shells while they are hot; Peel the yam and cut it into small pieces for later use; Xiaomi washes clean; Wash the medlar for later use. Prepare a clean casserole, add two bowls of pure water, add peeled chestnuts, yam segments and millet in turn, boil over high fire, and turn to low heat to cook slowly. When the yam and chestnut are ripe, add the medlar and turn off the heat. 7. Two-color moon cakes with Chinese yam

Late autumn is also the time when a large number of pumpkins are on the market. Pumpkins are very nutritious and suitable for all ages. Besides steaming, stewing and pancakes, they can also be made into two-color moon cakes with Chinese yam, which are not only bright in color, but also rich in nutrition, especially suitable for children to eat and can be ordered.

ingredients: 15g of yam, 15g of pumpkin, 1g of glutinous rice flour, 2g of corn oil, 2g of mung bean paste (homemade) and 5g of common flour

production process: the yam is washed, peeled and cut into pieces, the pumpkin is washed and cut into small pieces, and the two are put into a plate and steamed in a steamer. Steamed yam and pumpkin are placed in pots respectively, and pressed into fine yam paste and pumpkin paste with a spoon while they are hot. Add glutinous rice flour, common flour and corn oil to the two kinds of vegetable purees, stir them with chopsticks and knead them into dough. The two colors of dough are rolled into long strips respectively, and then pulled into small flour paste, and the flour paste of each two colors is combined and kneaded round. Wrap the two-color dough in mung bean paste, knead it again, press it into a pattern with a moon cake mold, put it on a baking tray, and brush a little vegetable oil on the surface to lock in the water. Bake in the oven at 17 degrees for 1 minutes, brush a little egg yolk liquid after taking out and bake for 1 minutes.

Yam is called "Little Ginseng". The above seven kinds of fancy foods made from yam are shared. The method is simple, delicious, and can be ordered. Interested friends can collect them and cook them for their families when they have time.

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