1. Steamed purple potato is helpful for digestion and can lose weight.

2. The nutritional component of purple sweet potato is starch, which can provide carbohydrates needed by human body.

3. Steamed purple potato can resist fatigue and delay aging.

4. Steamed yam has the function of moistening lung and relieving cough.

5. As a kind of nutritious food, Chinese yam has the effect of beautifying face.

In autumn, yam and purple potato are on the market in large quantities. Generally speaking, seasonal ingredients are inseparable from our health and nutritional needs. Common practices of yam include steaming, cold salad, stir-frying, porridge cooking and soup making. And purple potatoes are mostly used to make purple potato cakes, purple potato rolls, purple potato cakes, purple potato jiaozi and so on because of their beautiful colors. In fact, the most common and simple way to eat is steaming. What are the benefits of steamed yam and purple potato?

First, the biggest advantage of steamed yam and purple sweet potato is that steamed yam can help them better lock up the loss of nutrition: yam contains a lot of protein, sugar and vitamins, which can help us strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, promote digestion, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, improve the digestive ability of the stomach and accelerate the digestion and absorption of food in the human body. Purple sweet potato is purple because it contains anthocyanin, which is an antioxidant and also contains anthocyanin in common purple fruits such as grapes. After being absorbed by the human body, it can improve the antioxidant capacity of various organs of the body, nourish the skin, delay human aging and regulate human endocrine, which is of great benefit to improving our human health.

Second, steaming processing method: when steaming, just wash the yam and purple potato and steam it in a steamer for about 20 minutes. If you can easily pierce them with chopsticks, it means steaming is finished. Steamed yam and purple sweet potato can be eaten directly, or honey and osmanthus can be added to make snacks or desserts, so that their taste and nutrition can be improved.

Third, the practice of yam purple potato Osmanthus Jelly: raw materials: yam, purple potato, sugar, osmanthus or honey, mold (can be used for moon cakes and biscuits) production method:

Step 1: Wash and peel the yam and purple potato, cut into pieces, and steam in a pot. [Note: It is best to wear gloves when peeling yam. If you accidentally get itchy all over your hands with mucus, go to the faucet and wash it with plenty of water at the first time, and then rub vinegar on your hands. After a while, the itching will gradually disappear. This is because yam or mucus contains soap enzymes and plant alkaloids, and washing hands with vinegar is equivalent to acid-base neutralization. ]

Step 2: add some sugar to the steamed yam slices while they are hot and press them into yam paste.

Step 3: adde a small amount of osmanthus fragrans or honey into that steamed purple sweet potato block, and press into purple sweet potato paste.

Step 4: Take a small piece of pressed purple potato paste and yam paste by hand, knead it into dough, then put it into the prepared mold, and press and demould it.

Step 5: The selection amount of purple potato and yam is relatively random, which can be made into pure purple potato cake or yam cake, or different proportions of purple potato and yam can be made into colorful cakes, which are more beautiful and appetizing. After it is done, pour some sweet-scented osmanthus on it and you can eat it.

After the yam is steamed, there will be more water. Adding sugar is not only to increase sweetness, but also to neutralize the moisture of yam. Purple potato itself has little water and will be very dry after steaming. Adding some sweet-scented osmanthus, condensed milk or honey not only increases the sweetness, but also neutralizes the softness and hardness of purple potato, which is convenient for us to demould simultaneously.