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Chinese and Chinese-American cooks like Lisa Lin , a food blogger and expert on Chinese cooking, also utilize a yam called yamaimo or East Asian mountain yam. This variety has a sticky, slightly slippery texture, and is often sliced finely and eaten raw. They don't break down and turn to mush when they're boiled.
In Japan, among other applications, the starchy nagaimo and yamaimo yams are grated into the batter of okonomiyaki —chewy, savory pancakes showered in toppings and a mixture of a sweet and savory sauce and mayonnaise. The starchiness of the grated yams helps bind the pancake batter together, without adding too much moisture.
There are hundreds of varieties of yams out there, used in more culturally diverse preparations than I could count. You just have to decide where to start. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads.
As a result, many studies have been undergone to understand and manage yam healthiness. Another contributing factor to crop failure lies in the storage of yams after harvest: diseases like dry rot can easily destroy yams post-harvest if they are not properly stored and handled.
To counteract these threats, yam crops have been treated to a number of chemical pesticides during propagation, growth and post-harvest. It can be difficult to locate or determine non-chemically treated yams in the market in the United States. As a perennial plant, yams can be cultivated at any time of year, but they are often treated as an annual crop. In West Africa, yams are commonly planted at the beginning of the warm, rainy season and harvested in early autumn of the next one.
Peoples such as the Ashanti and Igbo celebrate the harvest of yams with an annual celebration lasting days. Other yams like the mountain yam are winter crops that are planted at the beginning of the cold season and harvested the following autumn or winter.
Yams are a staple crop of West Africa, and have been grown there for 11, years. Anthropologists have dated grinding stones from Africa that may have been used to pound starchy yams back to over , years ago, even, in the Middle Stone Age.
Slave traders who arrived in West Africa may have brought yams back to the Americas during their journeys. But once African slaves were in North America, they found sweet potatoes, native to the New World, as apt substitutes for yams. Often found in Chinese herbal medicine, today one of the most popular Asian mountain yams is called naga-imo in Japanese.
Another popular variety is known as ubi or purple yam, the tubers of flowering water vines eaten throughout Southeast Asia. Yams are traditionally stored in cool, dark earthen pits before being shipped to market. When you purchase yams, choose ones that are not bruised, visually blemished or discolored, and store for up to two weeks in a cool, airy dark place. If stored too long, they may begin to sprout like other tubers.
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