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美语情景对话第979期:Yummy Yams 美味的山药

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So Abidemi, you're from Nigeria, right?
阿比德米，你来自尼日利亚，对吧？

Yes, I am, that's correct.
对，没错。

So, can you talk a little bit about food from your country?
你能谈谈尼日利亚的美食吗？

Yes, gladly. I love eating, so food is one of my favorite things to talk about.
好，我很乐意。我喜欢美食，所以食物是我最喜欢谈的话题之一。

In Nigeria, we eat a lot of food that's made of potatoes or yam
尼日利亚有很多食物是由土豆或山药做成的，

so one of my favorite foods from Nigeria is called Inyan.
我最喜欢的尼日利亚美食是Inyan。

Inyan is pounded yam. And what we do is we boil yam in a pot and then we put it into like what we call a pounder.
这道菜要把山药捣碎。我们先把山药放到锅里煮，煮好后把山药放到捣具里。

I don't know how you say in English and we use a mortar and a pounding stick.
我不知道英语是不是这么说，我们用臼和棍子把山药捣碎。

And we pound it for maybe 20/30 minutes, usually the women do this and it comes out really sticky.
通常这个工作由女性来做，大概20到30分钟以后，山药就会变成粘稠状。

And we eat it with our hands and with a sauce,
我们通常用手拿着捣好的山药蘸酱吃，

kind of like tomato sauce with a lot of meat or fish, depending on your region.
一般是番茄酱，再搭配肉和鱼类食用，搭配取决于你所在地区的习惯。

And it's just really delicious.
非常美味。

It's something we eat especially during festivals and like yeah, with lots of music,
我们一般在节日期间吃这道菜，周围会放音乐，

if you are happy, if you are eating, yeah, it's really good.
如果你在吃饭的时候感到开心，那非常好。

That sounds really good.
听起来很不错。

So, you said though that it has sauce on it and you also eat it with your hands?
你说要蘸酱吃，而且是用手拿着吃？

Yes. Normally, we eat it with our hands so they put it in a plate, it's white in color
对。通常我们用手吃，捣好后的山药是白色的，把它们放在盘子里，

and beside they'll put like a stew, it's tomato based with onions all mixed together, grinded together.
然后搭配炖菜食用，炖菜就是把番茄和洋葱磨碎混合在一起。

And then they cook a fish or meat or even a mixture of both in the stew.
然后再烹饪鱼或肉，把它们也混合在炖菜里。

So when you eat it, you're eating with your fingers and your, yeah, put it in your mouth,
用手拿着放进嘴里直接吃，

it's very savory, it's a very savory dish.
这是一道非常美味的菜肴。

That sounds good. So, how long does it take to cook?
听起来不错。那做这道菜大约需要多长时间？

Usually, I would say an hour to two hours
一般需要一到两个小时的时间，

because you have to boil, peel the yams, boil the yams and then pound the yams so all that process takes time.
因为要煮山药、去皮，然后捣碎山药，这些步骤需要时间。

And then there's the sauce, the stew as well that has to be prepared, so it takes time.
接下来还要准备酱汁和炖菜，所以比较费时间。

That sounds like a lot of energy.
听起来要耗费很多精力。

It is a lot of energy which is I think mainly why it's eaten during festivals
的确会花费很多精力，所以在节日

or when people have a lot of time or people that are just at home,
或是人们有很多时间或是人们赋闲在家时才会做这道菜，

yeah, special occasions, that's when we have it.
当然在特殊场合也会准备这道菜。

So when you pound the yams, do you just do one yam at a time or are you doing many yams at once?
在捣山药时，是一次捣一个山药，还是同时捣多个山药？

You're doing many pieces of yams so the yams have been cut, after they've been peeled.
同时捣多个山药，所以在去皮以后要把山药切成块儿。

They've been cut into smaller pieces and you put these into the mortar and then you're pounding away, yeah.
把山药切成小块儿以后，把它们放进臼里，然后捣碎它们。

Oh, wow. So, and what foods does this go well with?
哦，哇哦。那这些食物一般和什么搭配着吃？

This is normally eaten by itself but when we have special occasions of course, we don't only have one dish.
通常就这样吃，不过如果是特殊场合，不可能只有这一道菜。

We have that, we also have rice that's made, we call one Jollof rice and it's made ... cooked in ...
我们通常要做辣椒炖肉饭，

I would say it's similar to the Spanish pilaf.
这种饭和西班牙的辣味菜肉饭很像。

So it's tomato based as well and it comes out red, so you have that.
做这种饭也要用蕃茄，所以它的颜色是红色的。

We might have some what we call dodo which is fried plantains in English.
我们还会做油炸大蕉。

So we have different dishes around that, they're centered around, yeah, we love eating in Nigeria, so yeah.
我们会准备很多道菜，搭配着食用，我们尼日利亚热爱美食。

Sounds good.
听起来真不错。

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minutes	['minits]	想一想再看 n. 会议记录，(复数)分钟
impossibility	[im.pɔsə'biliti]	想一想再看 n. 不可能之事，不可能，不可能性
mortar	['mɔ:tə]	想一想再看 n. 臼，研钵，灰泥 v. 用灰泥涂抹，用灰泥结合	联想记忆 X 单词mortar 联想记忆： mor死，tar：使里面的东西被碾死的东西－臼
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peel	[pi:l]	想一想再看 n. 果皮 vt. 削皮，剥落 vi
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