However, many people don't want to make yam, because after cutting yam, their hands will be "useless", red and itchy, which will make you upset and fidgety, which will directly affect your next cooking level. For example, I once started to feel red and itchy after cutting the yam, and I was cooking while grabbing it, which caused the tofu to be burnt, the broccoli to be fried salty, and the shredded pork to be fried black. Only one fried yam in a table was praised, which seemed to be very unworthy.
First, why does it make the skin itch when cutting yam? In fact, yam is also very wronged, and it doesn't intentionally make people's skin itch, because yam skin contains alkaloids, and yam mucus contains saponin, which will irritate the skin after contact with the skin, leading to itchy skin. This is a kind of contact dermatitis, which belongs to an allergic one. Now that we know the "culprit" of itchy skin, it is much easier to solve this problem. When cutting yam, will your hands be red and itchy? Teach you 3 tricks, yam "hands down", easy to get, you can eat yam every day!
Second, three small tricks to prevent skin itching when cutting yam. I have read many people's methods to prevent skin itching when cutting yam, and summed up the following three small tricks. You can try it. If the first trick 1 doesn't work, use the second trick. If the second trick doesn't work, use the third trick. There is always a trick that suits you, hahaha.
1, peel yam in water to dilute yam mucus.
First, prepare a basin of clean water to soak the washed yam in the basin, and then peel the yam with a scraper in the water, so that it can be peeled easily and the skin will not be red and itchy. The principle is that water dilutes the plant alkali in the yam peel and the saponin in the mucus, and even if it sticks to the skin, the concentration is very low. Theoretically, the skin will not be red and itchy or the degree of redness and itching is very low.
2. Boil the yam slightly (or steam it) and decompose the saponin with heat.
Boil (or steam) the washed yam in boiling water a little, then take it out, peel and slice it, and then soak the yam slices in clear water, so that not only will your hands not itch, but the color of the yam slices will be better. This principle is that plant alkali and saponin are unstable and easy to decompose when heated, so naturally they will not "harm" your skin.
3. Wear gloves to isolate allergens once and for all.
If the first two tricks are useless to you, then use the last trick "the ultimate solution"-wear gloves, so as not to touch the yam skin and mucus, it will definitely not itch. This principle is that even if you "cross" the plant alkali and saponin again, so that you can't "get" me, you can't always "cross"!
Third, how to alleviate the itching of the skin when cutting yam? If your hand is sticky with mucus and itchy, please don't worry. We can use the following three methods to relieve itching.
1, wash your hands with soap immediately after peeling and slicing the yam. Wash it thoroughly and it won't itch for a while. This is to wash the yam mucus thoroughly; 2. Prepare a basin of water, put more vinegar in it, soak your hands in it, or wipe the place where your hands or skin come into contact with vinegar evenly. This is to remove itching by the principle of acid-base neutralization; 3, you can soak your hands in warm water, or blow them with hot air from a hair dryer. When heated, saponin can be decomposed, thus relieving itching.
Fourth, stir-fry the yam with green and red peppers, and finally get the yam, then eat it in a different way. Let's start with steamed yam. This seems too simple. Just steam it directly after washing. Then let's have a slightly difficult fried yam. The fried yam is as white as jade, crisp and refreshing, and has the effect of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach. It is right to give such good ingredients to your family.
Ingredients: 400g of yam, green pepper 1 piece, red pepper 1 piece, 2 cloves of garlic, appropriate amount of starch, appropriate amount of edible oil and a little salt.
Step 1: Prepare food ingredients, clean green pepper, remove seeds and cut into small pieces, cut garlic cloves into minced garlic, take appropriate amount of starch and add water to make water starch, scrape off the skin of yam, clean it, cut it into pieces and soak it in light salt water for later use.
Step 2, put clear water in the pot to boil, put the yam slices in the pot and blanch for 20 seconds, then pick up the cold water and drain the water for later use.
Step 3, put a proper amount of oil in the pot to heat and stir-fry the minced garlic, add the green pepper and stir-fry for about 2 minutes, then stir-fry the tablets evenly, pour in the starch and thicken them, add salt and stir-fry them to taste, and a plate of crisp and refreshing fried yam with green pepper will be fine.
Tips for frying yam with green pepper
1, if you want to fry the yam as white as jade, slice it immediately after peeling, and then soak the yam slices in light salt water, otherwise it will be easy to oxidize and turn yellow and black, and some mucus can be removed by soaking, so it is not easy to paste the pot when frying.
2, yam is easy to fry, you should eat crispy yam, blanch it for 20 seconds before frying, then drain it with cold water, and finally stir-fry it in an oil pan for about 5 minutes.
3, when buying yam, we must first find out the type of yam, which can be divided into coarse yam and fine yam. The fine yam is an iron bar yam suitable for steaming or stewing, and the taste is noodles, while the coarse yam is crisp when fried, suitable for frying. Don't buy it wrong when buying.