Roasted Lotus Root with Sauce

Name: Roasted Lotus Root with Sauce
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 250g Lotus root slices; 1 tablespoon Sweet noodle sauce; 1 tablespoon Soy sauce; a little White sesame; a little Cumin

by Water pity

4.6 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

10m

Serving

2

Eating lotus root in summer is very beneficial to the body. The nutritional value and medicinal value of lotus root are very high, and the taste is sweet and crisp, and the mouth is smooth. It is a rare slimming vegetable. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lotus root has a good effect of clearing away heat and eliminating fire due to cold nature. It is especially suitable for women who have acne and get angry on the face due to blood heat. After being cooked, the lotus root becomes warm again. It has the effects of nourishing the stomach, protecting the spleen and stomach, and nourishing blood and replenishing qi. It is a good nourishing food, especially some foods that have weak spleen and stomach due to insufficient qi and blood. People with dry skin and bad complexion can eat more. Lotus root also contains mucus protein and dietary fiber, which can combine with the body's bile acid salts, cholesterol and triglycerides in food to make it excrete from the feces, thereby reducing the absorption of lipids. The lotus root exudes a unique fragrance and also contains tannins, which can invigorate the spleen and relieve diarrhea. It can increase appetite, promote digestion, appetite and invigorate, and is beneficial to those with poor appetite and loss of appetite to restore their health.
There are many ways to make lotus roots. Not only can they be eaten raw, they can also be steamed, boiled, fried, and boiled in various ways. Today I will share with you a baking method, which only takes a few minutes, and the taste is still very good.

Ingredients

250g Lotus Root Slices
1 tablespoon Sweet Noodle Sauce
1 tablespoon Soy Sauce
a little White Sesame
a little Cumin

Roasted Lotus Root with Sauce

1. The bagged lotus root slices bought directly in the supermarket this time do not need to be cut. If you buy a large piece, cut it into about 5 mm thick lotus root slices. Don’t cut them too thin as they will break easily.

2. Put the sweet noodle sauce, original soy sauce, cumin powder, and white sesame seeds directly into a large bowl, add an appropriate amount of purified water and stir evenly.

3. Dip the lotus root slices into the juice.

4. Take out the baking basket, spread tin foil, and spread the lotus root slices soaked in the juice on the tin foil.

5. Put it in an air fryer and set it to 180 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

6. After the baking is complete, it is ready to be served on the plate.

Tips:
1. The lotus root should be eaten in sections, the top is sweet and crispy, and it is blanched for fresh food; the second and third sections are slightly older, and are good raw materials for soup, and can also be used as fried lotus root clips; everything after the fourth section Jie is only suitable for fried food or used as a raw material for lotus root flour.
2. The purchase of lotus root: For edible lotus root, you should choose yellow-brown skin, thick and white flesh, if it is black and has a peculiar smell, it is not suitable for consumption. It is better to choose short lotus root joints, thick lotus root body, and small lotus root holes. If there is red or brown mucus in the lotus root hole, it means that it is not fresh anymore. Do not ventilate both ends of the lotus root to ensure that the inside of the lotus root is clean.