This small dessert is very simple to make. Tender and smooth Japanese tofu, served with soft glutinous yams and nutritious carrots, decorated with granulated orange, black currants and white sesame seeds, immersed in the sweet osmanthus honey juice. The shape is also quite cute, like a small tower built. As the New Year approaches, let's add a beautiful little scenery to your table and wish you a better career in the new year.
Nutritional analysis of yam:
1. Strengthen the spleen, enrich the stomach, and help digestion:
Yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which are conducive to the digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach. They are dual-use medicinal and food products that can soothe the spleen and stomach. It can be eaten regardless of spleen yang deficiency or stomach yin deficiency. Clinically, it is often used together with Weichangyin to treat spleen and stomach weakness, overeating, fatigue, diarrhea and other diseases
2. Nourishing kidney and nourishing essence:
Yam contains a variety of nutrients, which have the effects of strengthening the body and nourishing the kidney and essence. It can be taken for all patients with kidney deficiency and seminal emission, women with excessive leucorrhea, frequent urination, etc.
3. Yifei and cough:
Yam contains saponins and mucus, which have lubricating and moisturizing effects. Therefore, it can nourish lung qi, nourish lung yin, and treat lung deficiency, phlegm cough and chronic cough.
4. Lower blood sugar:
Yam contains mucus protein, which has the effect of lowering blood sugar. It can be used to treat diabetes and is a good food therapy for diabetic patients.
5. Extend life:
Yam contains a large amount of mucus proteins, vitamins and trace elements, which can effectively prevent the precipitation of blood lipids on blood vessel walls, prevent cardiovascular diseases, and achieve the effects of nourishing the mind, soothing the nerves and prolonging life;
step by step
Recipe Recommendations
- yam appropriate amount
- Japanese tofu appropriate amount
- carrots appropriate amount
- blackcurrant appropriate amount
- white sesame appropriate amount
- starch appropriate amount
- sweetening
- steamed
- three-quarters of an hour
- simple
Steps for step by step
1
Japanese tofu, yam, carrot, osmanthus sugar are used for spare.
2
Cut Japanese tofu into small pieces.
3
Peel the yam, wash it and cut it into thick slices.
4
Peel and slice the carrot.
5
Put yam slices, carrot slices, and Japanese tofu slices together and steam them in a pan.
6
Black currants and blisters.
7
Peel the granulated orange and separate the small pieces.
8
Add appropriate amount of water starch and osmanthus sugar into the pan.
9
Pour in white sesame seeds, granulated orange and black currants and cook until thick.
10
Pour on the steamed ingredients.step by step Make Tips
Benben's tips: 1. Soak the yam in salt water immediately after slicing to prevent oxidation and blackening. 2. When fresh yam is cut, the alkali component in the mucus can easily cause extreme itching. If it accidentally sticks to your hands, you can wash it with clean water and a little vinegar first. Use heating to promote its decomposition, such as roasting it over fire or rinsing it with slightly hotter water, and it will be fine after a while. Don't scratch, it will be itchy wherever you scratch it. 3. Yams are delicate and sweet in taste. However, yam skin can easily cause skin allergies, so it is best to peel them, and don't touch your hands after peeling the yam. Wash your hands several times immediately, otherwise you will scratch everywhere. Itching. Apply cooking oil to your hands to relieve the problem. 4. A good yam has no damage on the outer skin, mucus, snow white on the fault, more mucus, and less water. The skin can be stir-fried freshly, or dried to fry soup or porridge. Remove the skin and eat it to avoid abnormal taste such as hemp and thorn. 5. Fresh yam products are mostly used for cough and diabetes due to fatigue, and fried cooked food is used to treat deficiency of spleen, stomach and kidney qi.