Yam Lotus Tower

Name: Yam Lotus Tower
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 250g Fresh lotus seeds; 250g Fresh yam; 15g crystal sugar; 15g Blueberry jam; 4-6 pieces Mulberry Leaf

by Tao Ran Lily

4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Hard

Time

1h

Serving

2

The lotus seed is said to have super vitality. Even if its dried fruit has been dusted for hundreds of years, as long as it is thrown into the fertile soil of sludge, it can grow buds continuously. It has always been hailed as a holy product for health preservation.
Lotus seeds: fresh ones are sweet, astringent, flat and non-toxic; dry ones are sweet, warm and non-toxic. Enter the spleen, kidney, and heart meridian. It has the medicinal value of nourishing the mind and calming the nerves, strengthening the brain, strengthening the spleen and stomach, stopping diarrhea and strengthening the essence, eliminating fatigue and so on.

Usually when you eat lotus seeds, you should go for lotus cores, because lotus cores are bitter, cold in nature, and have the effects of clearing the heart, removing heat, hemostasis, and astringent. They can treat insomnia, irritability, vomiting and spermatorrhea caused by hyperactivity of the heart. Eating lotus seeds and cores together can easily cause nausea and vomiting.

Yam is sweet in taste, calm in nature, not dry and not greasy, and enters the lung, spleen, and kidney meridians; "Compendium of Materia Medica" summarizes the five major functions "invigorate the kidney, invigorate the spleen and stomach, stop dysentery, relieve phlegm, salivation, and moisturize the skin". Fresh yam is rich in a substance called digestive enzyme, which can help people digest and absorb food. Yam itself has a kidney-tonifying effect. According to current medical understanding, it can adjust endocrine. Therefore, in ancient times, it was often used to regulate menstruation and treat menstrual failure. In addition, it is also useful for men’s sexual function by strengthening the kidney and regulating endocrine. An adjustment.

The combination of lotus seeds and yam is very helpful to improve the weakness of the spleen and stomach. Today’s "Yam Lotus Seed Tower" is based on this material, which is suitable for strengthening the spleen and kidney. In order to create an artistic conception: a lotus seed in bloom in the green lotus, I originally thought of using fresh lotus leaves as a foil, but the fresh lotus leaves are not easy to find. I happened to pass by a mulberry tree at work, so when I had the idea, I just used mulberry leaves. Instead of lotus leaves, an unexpected effect can also be achieved.

To make the yam in "Yam Lotus Seed Tower", you must go through the gauze. The taste of the yam mud will be more delicate. You can add orange juice as a seasoning. The sweet and sour taste can improve your appetite. Because you forgot to buy oranges, I used blueberry sauce instead, which was equally delicious. "

Ingredients

Yam Lotus Tower

1. Raw material map

2. Remove the shell and core of the fresh lotus seeds (the lotus core is not easy to remove, so I am lazy), wash and steam it in a steamer;

3. Wash the yam, put it in a steamer, and steam over medium heat for about 20 minutes;

4. After the yam is steamed, take out the yam, remove the skin of the steamed yam, and then find a fine gauze net (the kind of medicinal thin basket is best) and buckle it upside down on the cutting board, and put the peeled yam with a fine gauze mesh basket Once again, the taste of the yam mud will be very good!

5. The good yam mud is very delicate and elastic.

6. After the lotus seeds are steamed, take them out of the steamer and put them on a plate. Scrape the yam paste from the gauze net (add some white sugar and mix well, I don’t like it very sweet, so I didn’t add it). Prepare a clean bowl. The materials for making the lotus tower are ready;

7. Take a clean rice bowl (the bowl should not be straight, so that it is not easy to stack the lotus seeds), and slowly overlap the lotus seeds around the bowl to form the shape of the lotus tower;

8. Place the yam mud carefully in the bowl, and then gently compact it;

9. Put the finished lotus seed tower in a steamer and steam it on medium heat for 10 minutes. This step is to make the yam mud and lotus seed firmer and taste better;

10. Put blueberry sauce and crystal sugar in the milk pan, then add a little boiled water and mix thoroughly. Heat on low heat until the sugar melts and the blueberry sauce becomes a thin paste;

11. Wash the mulberry leaves and soak them in boiling water for a few seconds, drain the water, cut off the petioles, and spread them flat on a plate;

12. After the yam lotus seed tower is steamed, take it out carefully, then pour the bowl over the mulberry leaves, and then drizzle with blueberry sauce.

Tips:
1. The yam mud can be replaced with taro mud, and the lotus seeds can be replaced with dried lotus seeds. If you use dried lotus seeds, you should soak them in warm water in advance, then brush the sand and put them in a bowl and add some water to steam them together.

2. The yam mud must be used in the method of a basket, so that the yam mud will be more delicate and elastic. I tried to smash it with a rolling pin, but the taste is much worse, and the lotus seeds fall off easily.