Step Up

Name: Step Up
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: Some Yam; Some Japanese tofu; Some carrot; Some Sugar Tangerine; Some Blackcurrant; Some White sesame; Some Osmanthus candy; Some starch

by Chen Huan

4.6 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

15m

Serving

2

This little dessert is very simple. The tender Japanese tofu is topped with soft waxy yam, and nutritious carrots, then garnished with sugar tangerines, blackcurrants and white sesame seeds, immersed in the sweet osmanthus honey juice. The shape is also quite cute, like a small tower built. In the coming season of the new year, add a beautiful little landscape to your dining table. I wish you a better and better future in the new year.
Nutritional analysis of yam:

1. To invigorate the spleen and stomach, help digestion:

Yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which is conducive to the digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach. It is a food and medicine product that flattens the spleen and stomach. Regardless of spleen yang deficiency or stomach yin deficiency, it can be eaten. Clinically, it is often used together with Gastrointestinal Drink to treat symptoms such as weakness of the spleen and stomach, lack of food, fatigue, diarrhea, etc.

2. Nourish the kidney and essence:

Yam contains a variety of nutrients, has the effect of strengthening the body, nourishing the kidney and nourishing essence. Most cases of kidney deficiency and spermatorrhea, leucorrhea in women, frequent urination, etc. can be taken

3. To nourish the lungs and relieve cough:

Yam contains saponins and mucus, which have lubricating and moisturizing effects, so it can benefit 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. Longevity:

Yam contains a large amount of mucus protein, vitamins and trace elements, which can effectively prevent the precipitation of blood lipids on the blood vessel wall, prevent heart and blood diseases, and achieve the effects of rejuvenating the mind, soothing the nerves and prolonging life;"

Ingredients

Step Up

1. Japanese tofu, yam, carrots and sweet-scented osmanthus candies.

2. Cut Japanese tofu into small pieces.

3. Peel the yam, wash and cut into thick slices.

4. Peel and slice carrots.

5. Yam pills, carrot slices, and Japanese tofu slices are put together and steamed in a pot.

6. Black currant and blisters.

7. Peel the sugar orange and separate the small petals.

8. Add appropriate amount of water starch and sweet-scented osmanthus sugar to the pot.

9. Pour in white sesame seeds, sugar tangerines and black currants, and cook until thick.

10. Pour it on top of the steamed ingredients.

Tips:
Stupid tips:

1. After the yam is sliced, it should be soaked in salt water immediately to prevent oxidation and blackening.

2. When fresh yam is cut, the plant alkaloids in the mucus can easily cause itching and unbearable. If it accidentally sticks to your hands, you can wash it with water and a little vinegar. Use heating methods to promote it to decompose, such as roasting or rinsing with slightly hot water, and it will be fine after a while. Don't scratch it, wherever it is scratched.

3. The yam has a fine texture and a sweet taste. However, the skin of yam is easy to cause skin allergies, so it is best to use peeling, and do not touch the hands after peeling the yam. Wash your hands several times immediately, otherwise you will scratch wherever it is. . Applying edible oil on the hands can relieve it.

4. Good yam has no injury on the skin, with mucus, white faults, more mucus, and less water. The skin can be fried fresh, or sun-dried for decoction or porridge. Peel and eat to avoid abnormal taste such as tingling and thorns.

5. Fresh yam products are mostly used for cough and thirst due to fatigue, and fried food to cure the deficiency of spleen, stomach and kidney.