Sweet potatoes are a good food for winter health. Sweet potatoes contain a variety of nutrients needed by the human body. Every 500 grams of sweet potato can produce about 635 kcal of heat, containing 11.5 grams of protein, 14.5 grams of sugar, 1 gram of fat, 100 mg of phosphorus, 90 mg of calcium, 2 grams of iron, 0.5 mg of carotene, and also contains vitamins B1, B2, C, niacin, linoleic acid, etc. The content of vitamin B1 and B2 is 6 times and 3 times higher than that of rice respectively. In particular, sweet potatoes are rich in lysine, while rice and flour lack lysine. But many people don't realize it yet. Will eating sweet potatoes make people fat? According to scientific research, eating sweet potatoes will not make people fat. On the contrary, sweet potatoes are an ideal diet food. Its calorie content is very low, much lower than ordinary rice, so you don't have to worry about getting fat after eating it, but it can lose weight. Sweet potatoes also contain a substance similar to estrogen, which has a certain effect on protecting human skin and delaying aging. Therefore, many women abroad regard sweet potatoes as beauty food.
Beef is rich in protein, and its amino acid composition is closer to the needs of the human body than pork. It can improve the body's disease resistance. It is particularly suitable for people who are growing and developing, recuperated after surgery and disease in terms of replenishing blood loss and repairing tissue. Eating beef in cold winter has the effect of warming the stomach and is a good tonic for winter. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that beef has the effects of nourishing the middle and replenishing qi, nourishing the spleen and stomach, strengthening the muscles and bones, resolving phlegm and alleviating wind, and quenching thirst and stopping saliva.
Sweet potatoes and beef are stewed together to be soft and rotten. They are a good food for winter health!
Stewed beef brisket with sweet potatoes
By MadonnaRobel
Recipe Recommendations
- beef brisket 800
- sweet potato 300 grams
- dried chili appropriate amount
- pepper appropriate amount
- octagonal 1 small
- cinnamon appropriate amount
- green onions of 4
- Jiang appropriate amount
- garlic 2 small pieces
- cooking wine 2 tablespoons
- soy sauce 1 tablespoon
- Longhou sauce appropriate amount
- sugar 1 tablespoon
- salt appropriate amount
- chicken essence a little
- slightly spicy
- stewed
- several hours
- simple
Steps for Stewed beef brisket with sweet potatoes

1
Wash the sirloin and cut it into pieces the size of mahjong.
2
Boil water in the pan, so that the amount can cover the sirloin. Add the sirloin and blanch the sirloin with water.
3
Remove the stir-fried beef brisket and wash off the foam on the surface.
4
Prepare dried peppers, pepper, star anise and cinnamon.
5
Then prepare green onions, ginger and garlic.
6
Put 2 tablespoons of oil in a wok, cook until 70% hot, add the beef brisket and stir fry.
7
Stir fry for about 2-3 minutes, stir-fry the ingredients in Figure 4 below.
8
Add cooking wine and soy sauce and stir fry well.
9
Add the ingredients in Figure 5 and stir well.
10
Add in the marshmallow sauce and a little sugar, and stir well.
11
Add appropriate amount of water to cover the beef brisket, bring to a boil over high heat and turn to low heat and cook slowly. It would be better to use a casserole. The casserole at home was cracked and I hadn't bought a new one yet, so I cooked it in a frying pan.
12
When braising the beef, peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into pieces about the size of the sirloin.
13
After the sirloin is cooked until it is 90 ripe, add the sweet potato pieces, and continue to simmer slowly over low heat until the sweet potatoes are soft and rotten. As long as the soup is thick and does not have to be dried, so that the finished product can be more delicious!