Food ingredients

500 grams of bitter gourd, green pepper 100 grams, salt, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate and peanut oil.

Gourmet practice

1. Wash bitter gourd, cut it in half, remove the pulp and seeds, obliquely cut it into thick slices, put it in a boiling water pot, take it out and wash it with clear water to remove the bitterness; Pedicels and seeds of green peppers are removed, washed and sliced.

2. Heat peanut oil in the pot, stir-fry bitter gourd and green pepper, cook wine, stir-fry refined salt and season with monosodium glutamate.

Gourmet special

Light and crisp, bitter gourd is not bitter, pepper is not spicy enough, and it has the effect of appetizing and inducing appetite.

Food efficacy

Bitter gourd contains protein, fat, vitamins and trace elements, with 6.6 mg of iron and 84 mg of vitamins per 100 grams. Compendium of Materia Medica says that bitter gourd "can dispel pathogenic heat, relieve fatigue, clear the heart and improve eyesight, benefit qi and strengthen yang", which has the functions of moistening skin, delaying aging and improving eyesight.

Pepper is rich in vitamin C, ranking first among melons and vegetables. Pepper also contains capsaicin, a substance that can improve skin nutrition.

Bitter gourd and pepper are combined into a dish, which is rich in vitamin C, iron and capsaicin. Women who eat regularly can moisten their faces, improve their eyesight and prolong their life. It is an ideal bodybuilding and anti-aging dish.

Bitter gourd ball

Materials:

One bitter gourd, one pork belly, two ginger, two onions and two red peppers.

Prepare:

Cut Momordica charantia into 10 cm long pieces and remove the pulp;

Pork belly, ginger and onion are ground into powder, and mixed with salt and soy sauce (dry Chili powder can be added if you like a little spicy);

Fill bitter gourd with minced meat for later use.

Cut red pepper into small pieces, chopped green onion leaves and shredded ginger;

Steps:

When the oil is hot, put one side of the soaked bitter melon balls into the oil and fry them until cooked. Pay attention to the heat, and switch to medium and small heat. First, slightly fry the bitter gourd skin into golden brown, then slightly fry both sides of the meat, and simmer. The longer the frying time, the more fragrant the meat will be. (be patient ~)

After the "whole body" of bitter melon balls is fried yellow, put shredded ginger and minced red pepper into the pot and stir-fry in oil for a while, add salt;

Cover the bitter gourd balls with pepper, spray some water (only one spoonful), cover the pot and let stand for 3 minutes. Sprinkle with chicken essence and chopped green onion and take out.

Bitter gourd with sauce

500 grams of bitter gourd, 30 grams of red pepper, 2 teaspoons of sesame oil, half a teaspoon of soy sauce, a little bean paste, a little garlic paste, a little salt and a little monosodium glutamate.

1. Remove the pedicel and pulp of bitter gourd, cut into strips, blanch in a boiling water pot, remove and cool with cold boiling water, drain and put in a dish for later use.

2. Remove the pedicels and seeds of red pepper, wash it, cut it into filaments, marinate it with salt for 5 minutes, and squeeze out the water; Mix mashed garlic with shredded red pepper, add soy sauce, bean paste, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil, pour on bitter gourd and mix well.

Dawnrain: Bitter melon can be blanched with boiling water to remove bitterness; Pickling peppers with salt can get rid of some spicy taste. And be sure to use ice water, so that bitter gourd looks green and has a very good color.

Recipe Name "China Yishou Recipe" Longevity Recipe (4) Jianfei Changshou-Clear Soup Bitter Melon

Other cuisines belonging to this cuisine

Types of healthy recipes

Basic characteristics: clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, refreshing and relieving sore throat.

The basic materials are 500g bitter gourd, 500g lean ham, clear soup1250g, pepper, monosodium glutamate and salt.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the lung controls breathing and its function is normal, so it inhales clear gas (oxygen) and exhales turbid gas (carbon dioxide) to meet the needs of life activities. If the lung function is abnormal, there will be symptoms such as cough and asthma. Long-term cough and asthma consumes lung function, affects normal breathing, and then affects other visceral functions, shortening life expectancy. Therefore, protecting lung function is an important link to prolong life.

The principle of dietary health care for lung is: 1. Quit smoking and don't work and live in smoking places. 2. Allergic people should avoid allergic foods such as shrimp, crab, milk and bamboo shoots. People who catch a cold should eat more food such as Schizonepeta, perilla leaf, onion, ginger and pepper. 4. People with wind-cold, wind-heat, dry cough and less phlegm should ban spicy and irritating foods, and should eat foods such as mint, loquat and pear. 5. Those who suffer from yin injury due to high fever, dry cough with little phlegm, or blood in sputum, or hemoptysis should eat pears, sugar cane, lily, loquat, watermelon, water chestnut, tremella, fresh vegetables, clear away heat and promote fluid production, nourish yin and stop bleeding.

Method: firstly, wash bitter gourd, cut it open, remove seeds and slice it; Sliced ham; Take 250 grams of clear soup and add a little salt and monosodium glutamate for later use. Boil the water, blanch the bitter gourd, and take it out in the cold clear soup with salt for half an hour. Boil the remaining clear soup, add salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper, put bitter gourd into the soup bowl, and add the boiled clear soup and shredded ham.

Efficacy: clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, refreshing and relieving sore throat.

Usage: Take with meals.

Uses: Suitable for health care in summer.