Operation guide
1. yam should be soaked in salt water immediately after slicing to prevent oxidation and blackening. 2. When fresh yam is cut, the plant alkaloids in mucus are easy to hurt hands. If you accidentally stick it on your hand, you can wash it with water and a little vinegar first. 3. Yam is delicate in texture and sweet in taste. However, the skin of yam is easy to cause skin allergy, so it is best to peel it, and don't touch it with your hands after peeling it. Wash your hands several times at once, or you will scratch. Cooking oil can be applied to your hands to relieve it. 4. Good yam skin is harmless, with mucus, white fault, more mucus and less water. The skin can be fried or dried to make soup or porridge. Peel and eat to avoid abnormal taste such as tingling. 5. Fresh yam is mostly used for fatigue cough and diabetes, and fried cooked food is used to treat spleen and stomach and kidney deficiency.
Introduce several common ways of eating: eating yam.
(1) Stewed yam with local chicken (stew) Ingredients: fresh yam 2000g, fresh chicken 1000g. Accessories: 2 shallots (cut into sections), 3 slices of ginger, a little sesame oil, salt and pepper. Practice: 1, yam cut into sections. 2. Press the chicken in the pressure cooker for three times, then pour in the yam section, add the auxiliary materials, and simmer for 20 minutes. (2) Stir-fried yam slices Ingredients: some fresh yam. Accessories: 2 onions (cut into pieces), 1 garlic sprouts (chopped), a little ginger, vinegar, sesame oil, salt and pepper. Its practice is similar to frying lotus root slices with vinegar. (3) Fried pork slices with yam Ingredients: fresh yam 200g, tenderloin 300g. Accessories: 50g carrot, 50g cucumber, 2 shallots (cut into sections), 3 slices ginger, a little salt, wine and pepper. Medicinal materials: Radix Astragali 5 yuan, Radix Saposhnikoviae 3 yuan, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae 2 yuan, Fructus Jujubae 10. Practice: 1. Cut carrots and cucumbers into sections with a serrated knife. 2. Add ginger slices into the medicinal materials, and use 4 bowls of water to make 1 bowl of medicinal juice for later use. 3. Slice tenderloin, add all seasonings and marinate. 4. Stir-fry shallots with a little oil, then add the sliced meat and stir-fry until the color changes. 5. Pour in yam, carrot and cucumber, pour in medicinal juice, add salt and stir fry for about 1 min. (4) Peel and wash fresh yam, cut it into soybean grain size, and put it into a soymilk machine for grinding and cooking, which is called yam pulp (appropriate amount of sugar can be added).
food therapy
Yam is sweet and flat, and enters the lung, spleen and kidney meridians; Do not be bored; Has the effects of invigorating spleen and lung, invigorating stomach and kidney, consolidating kidney and nourishing essence, improving hearing and eyesight, helping five internal organs, strengthening bones and muscles, calming nerves and prolonging life; Indications: spleen and stomach weakness, listlessness, anorexia, chronic diarrhea, lung qi deficiency and dryness, cough with excessive phlegm, kidney qi deficiency, soreness of waist and knees, weakness of lower limbs, thirst and frequent urination, nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation, leukorrhagia, skin swelling and obesity.