How to eat yacon? Tips on eating yacon

A root fruit that looks very similar to sweet potato. Its flesh tastes crisp and tender, has a large amount of juice, and tastes sweet. It contains a variety of nutrients necessary for the human body and is easy for the human body to absorb and utilize. However, many people do not know how to use yacon and how to eat it. Below I will write down the eating tips of yacon, and after reading it, you will know how to eat yacon.

How to eat yacon? Tips on eating yacon

1. Yacon is suitable for eating raw

Yacon is a special fruit suitable for eating raw. Usually, after people pick fresh yacon from the soil, they can use clean water to remove the mud and sand on its surface, and then use a fruit knife to peel off the skin of the yacon. After getting the flesh, they can eat it directly, or they can cut it into pieces and eat it with toothpicks.

2. Yacon soup

Yacon can also be used to make soup. You need to prepare a fresh yacon, two pieces of pork bones, ginger, four or five figs, and salt. Blanch the pork bones in boiling water, remove the water, add water, ginger and figs to the pot, boil over high heat, and cook for half an hour. Then add the chopped yacon pieces and cook over medium and low heat. After an hour, the yacon meat and bone soup will be ready and can be taken out and eaten directly.

3. Yacon can be fried and eaten

Yacon can also be stir-fried. Usually, you can remove the skin of fresh yacon and cut it into shreds. Then prepare an appropriate amount of lean meat shreds and add starch, egg white, light soy sauce and other seasonings to marinate. Then put oil in a wok, add onion and ginger to stir-fry the meat until it is fragrant, then add the shredded meat into the wok and stir-fry. Then add the chopped yacon shreds, stir-fry quickly, add salt to season for two minutes and serve directly on a plate.