What is a Wild Yam?

Wild yam is a perennial twining grass vine, flowering from June to August, and fruiting from August to October. Born on the slopes of forests, under bushes and trenches. The main products are Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, and Shaanxi. Wild yam is rich in nutrition and can be used as a combination of herbs and vegetables. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, helping digestion, nourishing kidney and refining essence, nourishing lungs and cough, lowering blood sugar, and prolonging life. It is a good nutritional tonic. As a vegetable, it tastes good and tastes good. It is also a good dish for most people.

Wild yam (D. japonicaThunb.). Perennial twining grass
Wild yam can grow in all mountainous regions of Yunnan, and the soil conditions are not too strict. It is better to use sandy loam with medium fertility, and the soil pH should be from weak acid to weak alkaline. in
Wild yam belongs to Dioscoreaceae, Dioscorea genus, alias Alisma chinensis, Dioscorea zingiberensis, yam, etc. Dioscorea genus plants are precious medicinal materials, more than 50 kinds of which can be eaten. Wild yam is rich in carbohydrates and proteins. In addition to grain or starch, it is mainly used for cooking, both salty and sweet, as a nourishing food [1]
1. The growth environment of wild yam. Pantherosaurus is often wild on hillsides, forest margins and
It mainly contains a variety of steroidal saponins such as dioscin.
Excavation in spring and autumn, digging rhizomes to remove fibrous roots and outer skins (suppositories),
Wild yam diseases mainly include three major diseases, such as anthracnose, leaf spot, and stem rot, and the prevention and treatment of the three major diseases: First, after harvest, clear the branches and leaves of wild yam and weeds and deciduous, and burn them to reduce the winter pathogen Secondly, during the cultivation process, try to reduce the inter-forest humidity and improve the ventilation and light conditions. Insect pests include pupae (also known as white silkworm), small ground tiger (also known as black soil silkworm), and their larvae harm wild yam's seed potatoes, roots and seedlings near the ground, which can cause the entire plant to die, and severely lack seedlings in large areas. Broken ridge. The use of pesticides has a good control effect, but wild yam is more sensitive to pesticides at the seedling stage, and it is easy to produce pesticide damage if the concentration is slightly higher, which causes spots on plant leaves, shrinkage and curling, and the entire plant dies in severe cases. Therefore, the use of highly effective, low-toxic, low-residue pesticides trichlorfon and other agents is encouraged. And cooperate with other control methods to form a good situation of comprehensive control, to achieve the purpose of economic, safe and efficient protection of wild yam. [2]

Wild Yam Yam Stewed Lamb

Ingredients: 500 grams of lamb, 300 grams of fresh yam, 5 grams of refined salt, 3 grams of monosodium glutamate, 1 gram of pepper, 25 grams of cooking wine, ginger cubes (beat 50 grams, 50 grams of green onions, a few peppercorns, 50 grams of refined oil 1,500 grams of water.
Method:
1. Cut the mutton into 3 cm square pieces, remove them in boiling water for 2 minutes, peel and wash the yam, and cut into 3 cm long hob pieces for use.
2. Set the pot on the hot fire, burn the refined oil to 60% heat, add mutton, pepper, ginger, and onion to stir-fry, pour it into a saucepan, mix with boiling water, remove the foam, and keep The noodle soup is boiled until the soup and white meat are cooked. Finally add seasoning salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper powder and cooking wine, remove ginger, spring onion, pepper, and put in the soup bowl.
Features: Tangbai is drunk, soft and waxy, and rich in nutrition. [4]

Wild yam nourishing yam

Ingredients: 500 grams of fresh yam, 15 grams of white fungus, 10 grams of Chinese wolfberry, 30 grams of red dates, one Sydney, 30 grams of dried longan, 1000 grams of water, 150 grams of rock sugar.
Method:
1. Peel and wash the fresh yam, cut it into about 3 cm pieces with a knife, and wash it with boiling water.
2. Wash the white fungus, soak it in water for 24 hours to fully absorb the moisture and soften it, tear it into small flowers, and wash the goji berries; cut the dates into two halves, remove the cores and wash them; peel and remove the cores of Sydney, cut into small pieces Pieces, soak in water; dry clean longan for later use.
3. Put the processed yam, white fungus, gouyi, red dates, pear, longan into the glass soup bowl. Mix with water, add crushed rock sugar, seal with fresh-keeping film, steam in a basket for about 1 hour, and remove the film to serve.
Features: Diverse raw materials, sweet and moist, sweet but not thick, and rich in nutrition. [1]

Wild Yam Yam Stewed Lamb Belly

Ingredients: 200 grams of yam, 300 grams of lamb's belly, 10 grams of ginger, 5 grams of spring onion, salt, moderate amount of wine, and a little MSG.
Method:
1. Wash the lamb's belly and cut into 3 cm and 2 cm wide pieces; wash the yam and cut into 1 cm thick pieces.
2. Set the pot on the fire, add the lamb's belly, yam and ginger, spring onion, salt, and an appropriate amount of water. After boiling in the high heat, use a small fire to simmer, add a little MSG when the lamb's belly is mature, and stir well.
Features: The soup is drunk and suitable for dry winter. [4]

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