Sweet potato is also called potato.
Scientific name: potato
Alias: sweet potato, cold potato, Shage, potato, etc. Sichuan is also called geographical location.
The shape and size are similar to sweet potatoes, with yellowish skin and white meat. The texture of meat looks a bit like sweet potato, but it tastes sweeter than sweet potato, crispy and delicious, and contains more water. It is a thirst quencher and can also be eaten raw as fruit.
Sweet potato contains unique vitamin K, which is regarded as a special health care use among the people and is an indispensable godsend for modern people. Rich in nutrition, it contains vitamin VC, B carotene, protein, iron, zinc, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus and other rare elements necessary for human body. The calcium content per 100 grams is as high as 86.5%, and "green" and "high calcium" are its advantages and characteristics.
Sweet potato is rich in starch and sugar and can be used as a non-staple food. Because it is tender and crisp, like a water chestnut. Besides being eaten raw, it can also be fried, boiled and pickled.
Nutritional value of sweet potato
The main producing areas are several southern provinces, of which Sichuan and Hunan are the most. Locals call it cold potato.
Although cold potatoes taste good, they are not suitable for everyone.
"Compendium of Materia Medica" records:
It tastes cool and sweet.
Meridian and stomach meridian.
Efficacy: promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relieving alcoholism and lowering blood pressure.
Suitable: hot summer is annoying and thirsty, or suitable for injured people; Wind-heat cold, fever and headache, dry mouth and liver should be eaten; People with high blood pressure, dizziness, red face and dry stool should eat it; People who drink too much, are irritable, thirsty or suffer from chronic alcoholism should eat.
Taboo: people with cold stomach should not eat; Women with cold dysmenorrhea should not eat cold potatoes during menstruation; People with diabetes should not eat more.
Recommended food:
Sweet potato jiaozi:
Ingredients: 1 small cup of glutinous rice flour (because it is glutinous rice flour, you should not eat too much at a time, and you should also grasp the amount when cooking, so you don't have to cook too much at a time), 1/4 sweet potato, 1 small cake, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon salt.
Exercise:
1. Wash the sweet potato, peel it, cut it into discs, and steam it in a steamer.
2. You can treat red dates when steaming sweet potatoes, which are mainly used for decoration. If you don't cook much, that red date will be enough. Wash the jujube, cut the jujube meat down along the jujube core with a knife, and then roll up the jujube meat and cut it into thin slices. & gt& gt& gt5 sweet potato diet meals
3. Take out the sweet potato after steaming, mash it into sweet potato paste, add salt and sugar and stir well.
4. Wrap some steamed buns with mashed potatoes. Don't make jiaozi too big. It's just stuffing
5. Mix glutinous rice flour with a little salt, sieve, and knead into glutinous rice dough while adding water.
6. Take a glutinous rice balls, squash it, wrap it in a sweet potato ball, knead it into a circle, and do it in turn. Don't wrap too thick glutinous rice skin outside.
7. Take the soup pot, inject clear water to boil, then add the sweet potato jiaozi, cook until it all floats to the surface, and remove the cold water.
8. At this time, prepare a small fresh-keeping box, break a small piece of cake, and take the light-colored part in it to make powder. Then put our sweet potato jiaozi in a fresh-keeping box, shake the box, and make the surface of sweet potato jiaozi evenly covered with a layer of cake powder. Finally, plate and decorate with red dates.
Sweet potato chips:
Raw materials of oil skin: flour128g, sugar13g, lard 54g and water 47g.
Sour pastry ingredients: 80 grams of low flour and 40 grams of lard.
Stuffing: 200g sweet potato paste, 32g peanut oil, and 0/5g sugar/kloc.
working methods
Delicious sweet potato chips
1. Put the oil skin material into a mixing tank and stir until the dough is smooth, then wrap it in a plastic bag and let it stand and relax for about 20 ~ 30 minutes at room temperature.
2. Put the pastry material into the mixing tank and mix until it is as soft and hard as skin.
3. Divide the crust made by method 1 into 40g each, and divide the pastry made by method 2 into 20g each for standby.
4. The oil package is crisp and the mouth is up. After the rod grows into a bull's tongue, it is folded into three folds; Then roll the rod into a tube and relax for about 20 minutes.
5. Divide the sweet potato stuffing into 20 pieces for later use.
6. Take a 4-strip cake from the middle, cut it in half horizontally, wrap it in 5-strip fillings after the incision is upward, shape it into an oval cocoon shape, put it on a baking tray, then put it in an oven, and bake it at 160℃ and 180℃ for about 25-30 minutes.
Braised lion head:
1. Peel the sweet potato, wash it, cut it into fine particles, and mince the onion and ginger; Wash vegetables, pick them up and put them in a plate for later use;
2. Chop pork belly into paste, put it in a bowl, beat in eggs, add chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, sweet potato granules, starch, soy sauce, wine and pepper, and stir well;
3. Knead the meatballs into a ball by hand, evenly wrap them with starch, put them in a hot oil pan and fry them with strong fire until golden brown, and take out and drain the oil for later use; This seems a little difficult, because the paste made by 2 seems to be thin and it is difficult to form balls. So when it was divided into three parts and made into three small lion heads, the meatball slowly became a meat pie because it was not hard enough;
4. Pour water, soy sauce, sugar and rice wine into the pot, bring to a boil with high fire, add meatballs, cook with low fire until the meat tastes good, turn off the fire and serve in vegetables.
Summary: The nutritional value of sweet potato is not inferior to that of ordinary sweet potato, and it tastes good when eaten raw. Have you learned the above methods about sweet potato food? If you learn it, make it for your family to taste!