Traditional Chinese Medicine Medicated Diet Recipe Book

Shan Yao Cake

Qi deficiency/Diarrhea, Overweight, Diabetes

Ingredients:
750g Chinese Yam (Shan Yao)
1pc Potato
1-2 stalk green onion
1/4C water
5 Tbsp Rice Flour
Dash of salt
White sesame seed
Filling:
30g Dried Mushroom, soaked for 1 hour
85g Fresh Lotus Seed
1 med Onion
½ tsp soya sauce
Dash of salt
oil

Directions:

1. Steam Chinese yam and potato for ½ hour or until cooked, peel and mash.


2. Add chopped green onion, dash of salt, 1/4C water, 2 Tbsp flour, mix together.


3. Stir fry chopped onion with oil until soft and fragrant, add in drained and chopped
   mushroom, lotus seed and stir fry for 2 min.


4. Add in the liquid that the mushroom is soaked in, turn to low heat and simmer for 20
   mins or until all the liquid are absorbed.


5. Add a thin layer of sesame seeds on a plate, dust hand with flour, put a tsp of filling on a
   layer of mashed shan yao and make into cake shape, dust with flour and sesame seed on
   outside.


6. Pan fry both sides until golden brown – make 8-10 cakes.

Actions/Indications/Functions
o Tonify spleen strengthen body, strengthen immune system
o Good for poor appetite, loose stool and diarrhea
o Tonify kidney, Astringe essence, stop leucorrhea
o Nourish heart and clam spirit
o Nourish yin, moisten dryness