The Delicious and Healthy Snack ----Yam and Purple Sweet Potato Cake 紫薯山药糕

Today I'd like to share with you the soft ,delicious snack .It is a kind of characteristic snacks of Han nationality in China. simple and healthy .i like it very much .hope you like !

They are benefit for your body ,let's look at it .

The function of yam :

• Contain a variety of vitamins, can control the human body metabolic abnormalities, accelerately eliminate the waste of body and enhance human immunity.
• Contain a variety of minerals, not only supply calcium but also has the effect of zinc supplements.
• Contain a variety of aminoacids which can mend a variety of damaged cells, and has the effect of beautifying skin.

The function of purple sweet potato:

1. Contains selenium and iron .they are the essential elements of the body for anti-fatigue, anti-aging, blood tonic, especially selenium is known as "the king again cancer ".
   easy to be absorbed by human body, can stay in serum, repair the myocardium, enhance immunity, remove free radicals, inhibit cancer cell DNA synthesis and cancer cell's division and growth, prevent the happening of the gastric cancer, liver cancer and other cancer.

2. Promote gastrointestinal peristalsis

3. Conducive to weight loss . Purple potatoe is a good source of low-fat, low-calorie food, and can effectively prevent the sugar into fat, to lose weight,prevent sub-health.

4. Enhance immunity

Purple potato contains a lot of mucus proteins that can prevent the liver and kidney atrophy of connective tissue, enhance immunity, prevent collagen vascular diseases.
Purple potato contains many kinds of minerals for maintaining and adjusting human body's functions, plays a very important role in maintainning and regulating human function.

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Ingredients:

iron stick yam
purple sweet potato

Instructions:

1、 wash iron stick yam and purple potato .

The Chinese yam and has great mucus, some people cause allergies when touching this mucus .So you can wear glovesor to peel it carefully,or you can peel it after cooking .

After peeling ,put it in the water to prevent oxidation.

peel the purple sweet potato

cut it into small sections.

2、 Place them on a wire rack in a large steamer . cook it about for 20 minutes over medium.

3、 cool it and place it in a foodbag to flat it with a rolling pin. So does the yam.

4、 first ,make a purple ball (purple sweet potato) ,put it in a mould. flat it ,then add a white ball(yam) flat them . one by one .

the snack is done . dish up .

紫薯山药糕

山药的功效：

• 含有多种维生素，可以防治人体代谢异常，加速排除体内的垃圾，增强人体免疫力。
• 含有多种矿物质，不仅补钙，还有补锌的作用。
• 含有多种氨基酸，氨基酸可以修补多种破损的细胞，还有美容养颜的功效。

紫薯的功效：

1.富含硒和铁是人体抗疲劳、抗衰老、补血的必要元素，特别是硒被称为“抗癌大王”，易被人体吸收，可留在血清中，修补心肌，增强机体免疫力，清除体内自由基，抑制癌细胞中DNA的合成和癌细胞的分裂与生长，预防胃癌、肝癌等癌病的发生。

2.促进胃肠蠕动
紫薯富含纤维素，可增加粪便体积，促进肠胃蠕动，清理肠腔内滞留的粘液、积气和腐败物，排出粪便中的有毒物质和致癌物质，保持大便畅通，改善消化道环境，防止胃肠道疾病的发生。
3.有利于减肥瘦身
紫薯是很好的低脂肪、低热能食品，同时又能有效地阻止糖类变为脂肪，有利于减肥、健美，防止亚健康。
4.增强免疫力
紫薯含有大量黏液蛋白，能够防止肝脏和肾脏结缔组织萎缩，提高机体免疫力，预防胶原病发生。紫薯中所含有矿物质对于维持和调节人体功能，起着十分重要的作用。

原料：

紫薯 两个
铁棍山药 一根

做法：

1、山药，紫薯洗净，去皮。山药去皮有很大的粘液，有些人碰到此粘液会过敏，一定要小心一点，或者蒸熟以后剥皮也是可以的。

2、紫薯切快，山药切段放入蒸锅蒸熟。大约需要20分钟。

3、蒸熟的山药和紫薯分别压成泥。

4、放入模具内压成花纹脱模，装盘。

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