There are many dishes using yam as the main ingredient. Here are two cooking methods that are both delicious and retain the nutritional value of yam.

1. Yam Stewed Pork Ribs Soup

Yam Stewed Pork Ribs Soup is a home-cooked soup with yam and pork ribs as the main ingredients. It tastes mellow and delicious, and also has the functions of nourishing blood and kidneys, preventing cardiovascular diseases and enhancing immunity. The specific method is as follows:

1. Required ingredients: main ingredients fresh pork ribs and yams; auxiliary ingredients chives and ginger; seasonings: salt and pepper.

2. Cooking steps:

(1) Wash the chives and cut into chopped green onions, peel and slice the ginger and set aside.

(2) Chop the ribs into small pieces, rinse with water and set aside.

(3) Peel the yam, wash it, slice it diagonally, blanch it in boiling water, pick it up, drain and set aside.

(4) Heat another pot of hot water, blanch the ribs in the boiling water, skim off the blood foam after the water boils again, repeat several times until no blood foam emerges, and remove. Remove the ribs and wash them with clean water, drain and set aside.

(5) Take a casserole, put in the washed and drained ribs, add boiling water to cover the ribs, add ginger slices, cover the pot and cook over high heat until the ribs are cooked and the color of the soup changes. When thickened, add yam slices, reduce the heat to low, and simmer slowly for 3 hours with the ribs. Add an appropriate amount of salt and a little pepper, mix well, then turn off the heat, sprinkle with chopped green onion, and serve in a bowl.

Warm reminder: Do not add salt before the soup thickens, because after the protein in the ribs solidifies when exposed to salt, it will be difficult for this yam stewed ribs soup to achieve the effect of thick soup and rotten meat.

2. Osmanthus yam

Yam can nourish the lungs and spleen, nourish and strengthen the body, and aid digestion. Adding osmanthus sauce will make the taste sweet and refreshing, suitable as a cold dish before meals. The specific method is as follows:

1. Required ingredients: 500g of yam as the main ingredient; osmanthus paste as the auxiliary ingredient.

2. Cooking steps:

(1) Wash the yam, cut it into several sections, steam it over high heat for 20 minutes, take it out and let it cool before peeling it.

(2) Cut the yam into long and thin strips and place them neatly on the plate, and pour an appropriate amount of osmanthus sauce on them.

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