Two common ways to eat sweet potatoes and pumpkins

When it comes to sweet potatoes and pumpkins, everyone will probably say that these are the two best foods. Indeed, the nutritional value of pumpkin and winter melon is very high and they are indispensable in our lives.

Sweet Potato Balls with Chicken Sauce

Ingredients: sweet potatoes, flour, glutinous rice flour, raisins, coconut flakes, eggs, sugar osmanthus, Thai chicken sauce, red bean paste, chocolate needles, vegetable oil.

practice:

1. First, wash and peel the sweet potatoes, cut into small pieces, steam them in a steamer, take them out and let them cool, then squeeze them into a paste.

2. Put the sweet potato puree into a container, add flour, glutinous rice flour and appropriate amount of water and knead evenly. Roll the red bean paste into small balls for later use.

3. Shape the kneaded sweet potato dough into small pieces, wrap the red bean paste balls in the sweet potato dough, and roll them into balls in the palm of your hand.

4. Heat the iron pan and add vegetable oil. When the oil temperature reaches 30% to 40%, put the sweet potato balls into the oil one by one and blanch them. When they turn golden brown, remove them from the oil and put them in a bowl. Leave some oil in the pan, add Thai chicken sauce and sugar osmanthus, heat them, pour them evenly on the sweet potato balls, and sprinkle with raisins, chocolate needles and crushed coconut flakes.

Steamed Pumpkin with Pork Knuckle

Ingredients: German pork knuckle, pumpkin, garlic seeds, red pepper, onion and ginger juice, Shaoxing wine, chopped green onions, salt, chicken powder, and peanut oil.

practice:

1. Use a grinder to grind the garlic seeds into a paste, then rinse with water to remove the sugar, drain the water, fry two-thirds of the garlic paste until golden brown and mix with the other one-third of the garlic paste, then add salt and chicken powder and mix well. Wash the red pepper, remove the stems and seeds, and cut into small pieces for later use.

2. Soak the salted pork trotters in clean water for 60 minutes, then blanch them in cold water and wash them. Add onion, ginger juice and Shaoxing wine, steam them in a steamer for 60 minutes, then take them out and let them cool.

3. Choose the seedless part of pumpkin, wash it and cut it into rectangular slices with the skin on, 6 cm long, 4 cm wide and 2 cm thick. Debone the pork knuckle and cut the meat into rectangular slices. Place a piece of pumpkin and a piece of pork knuckle slice flat in a long waist basin. Evenly spread the processed minced garlic on top. Steam it in a steamer for 30 minutes, take it out, stir-fry red pepper and chopped green onion, and pour it on the pumpkin and pork knuckle slices in the basin.