Everyone has eaten cucumbers and likes them very much. Cucumber is not only crisp and refreshing, but also nutritious. Speaking of cucumbers, there are many ways to do it, among which salted cucumbers are the most classic. Next, let's take a look at what salted cucumbers do.
Sauté ed salted cucumber with chicken in casserole
Ingredients: 250g salted cucumber, onion and ginger.
Exercise:
1. Dice the salted cucumber and soak it in cold water for several minutes. Soak for a few more minutes to reduce the salt. After soaking, squeeze out the water by hand.
2, meat cut meat, onion ginger and dried red pepper chopped, it is recommended to put more onions, too little will be difficult to eat, like to eat Chili can put more.
3, the pot is hot, add more cooking oil than usual, and burn 60% hot diced meat in oil.
4, medium fire, stir-fry the meat with a shovel. This meat is undercooked, so it needs frying for a while.
5, pour thirteen incense, this salted cucumber is very salty, it is not recommended to add soy sauce, chicken essence and other seasonings.
6. Add onions, ginger and dried peppers, stir-fry until fragrant, then add salted cucumbers and continue to stir-fry for a few minutes.
7. You can do more at a time. After finishing, let it cool and put it in a clean empty bottle disinfected with boiling water. It is best to use glass bottles. Can be refrigerated for two weeks and frozen for two months. Cold storage can be eaten directly, frozen and thawed and then heated.
Diced roast chicken with salted melon
Ingredients: 300g chicken, 4 salted cucumbers, appropriate amount of salad oil, cooking wine 15g, soy sauce 15g, and 3g sugar.
Exercise:
1. Cut the chicken into small pieces, drain the pickled cucumber and slice it.
2. Heat the oil in the pot, pour the diced chicken and stir fry, pour the cooking wine, soy sauce and sugar, and add the salted melon slices and stir fry until the melon slices are cooked and soft.
Method for making salted cucumber
Cucumber has high nutritional value and efficacy. It can be eaten not only as fresh food, but also as salted cucumber. Salted cucumber can be preserved for a long time and can prolong its edible period, so it is favored by many people. So, how do we pickle salted cucumbers at home?
Exercise 1:
Ingredients: cucumber 1000g, oil, salt, soy sauce, pepper, garlic, white vinegar and sugar.
Steps:
1. Clean the picked fresh cucumber, cut the cucumber, remove the capsule, cut it into small pieces, add appropriate amount of salt, mix the cucumber slices evenly, and marinate overnight.
The next day, there was a lot of water in the cucumber. Pour out the water, and then squeeze out the water from the cucumber by hand.
3. Put the squeezed cucumber on the plate for later use.
4. Prepare pepper and garlic, stir-fry hot oil in a wok, add pepper and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, then add cucumber slices and stir-fry until dry.
5. Finally, add a little soy sauce and stir the white vinegar and sugar evenly.
6. This kind of "salty cucumber" tastes fresh, salty and spicy. You can make several layers of fresh-keeping in a clean glass container and put it in the freezer once. You can take as much as you want, which is very crisp.
Tip: Don't slice cucumber too thin. When curing, mix them evenly first, and then leave them overnight. The next day, I had to squeeze out the cucumber water by hand. Cucumber slices fried with vinegar are more refreshing. Finally, put the fried cucumber in the freezer and freeze it for one hour, so that the cucumber slices will taste more crisp.
Exercise 2:
Ingredients: 4 kg of tender cucumber and 0.5 kg of pepper.
Steps:
1, wash the cucumber, wash the cucumber and cut it into strips 5 cm long and finger thick. If it is that kind of cucumber, it can be pickled directly without cutting. ...
Nutritional efficacy of salted cucumber
Everyone must have eaten cucumber, and it is estimated that many people have eaten salted cucumber. Many people like the taste of salted cucumber. Salted cucumber is pickled with fresh cucumber, which is crisp, tender and refreshing, and has the effect of appetizing and helping digestion. In addition, what other effects does salted cucumber have? Let's get to know each other!
Once pickled, cucumber contains tannic acid. Eating pickled cucumber often can raise blood pressure of people with low blood pressure and prevent diseases. Eating salted cucumber can increase appetite, eliminate abdominal distension and reduce dryness and heat.
Salted cucumber has many nutritional effects, and fresh cucumber has more nutritional value. Let's take a look at the nutritional function of fresh cucumber:
1, anti-tumor: Cucurbitacin C contained in cucumber can improve human immune function and achieve anti-tumor purpose. In addition, the substance can also treat chronic hepatitis and persistent hepatitis, and prolong the survival time of patients with primary liver cancer.
2, anti-aging: cucumber is rich in vitamin E, which can play a role in prolonging life and anti-aging; Cucumber enzyme in cucumber has strong biological activity, which can effectively promote the metabolism of the body. Rubbing the skin with cucumber juice has the effect of moistening skin and stretching wrinkles.
3. Anti-hangover: Alanine, arginine and glutamine contained in poisoned cucumber have certain auxiliary therapeutic effects on patients with liver diseases, especially those with alcoholic cirrhosis, and can prevent and treat alcoholism.
4. Lowering blood sugar: Glucosides and fructose contained in cucumbers do not participate in the usual sugar metabolism, so diabetics use cucumbers instead of starchy foods to satisfy their hunger, and their blood sugar will not increase or even decrease.
5, weight loss: Propanolic diacid contained in cucumber can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. In addition, the cellulose in cucumber can promote the elimination of spoilage substances in human intestine and reduce cholesterol, which can strengthen the body. ...
Selection of ingredients for salted cucumber
Cucumber is one of the most popular vegetables, which was brought back to the Central Plains by Zhang Qian in the Western Han Dynasty. It was called cucumber at that time. Cucumber can not only be eaten raw, but also mixed and fried. Pickling salted cucumber is an effective way to prolong the shelf life of cucumber. So, how do we choose the ingredients of salted cucumber?
How to buy cucumbers:
1, the thorns on the epidermis are small and dense, and the epidermis of fresh cucumber has thorns. If there are no thorns, it means that the cucumber is old, and which kind of thorns will break better when touched lightly. Cucumber with small and dense thorns tastes better, while cucumber with large and thin thorns does not taste like cucumber.
2, the body is slender and uniform, and there are more cucumbers in the big belly, which looks slender and uniform, making the short cucumbers taste better.
3, the vertical stripes on the epidermis are prominent, and the vertical stripes on the delicious cucumber epidermis are more prominent, which can be detected by hands and eyes. And those cucumbers with smooth surfaces and no vertical stripes are not delicious.
4, the color is green and black, the color of cucumber is green and black, delicious, those light green cucumbers are not delicious.
Not too big. Cucumber that is too big is not delicious. Relatively speaking, smaller cucumbers taste better.
The above is the purchasing method of cucumber. Only by choosing cucumbers well can we make more delicious and refreshing salted cucumbers! Friends who like to eat cucumbers, act quickly!
People who should avoid salted cucumbers
Salted cucumber is a delicious ingredient pickled with cucumber, which can be eaten raw or fried. In a word, the taste of salted cucumber is excellent, but salted cucumber is a pickled ingredient after all, which is not suitable for everyone. So, who are the people who should avoid salted cucumbers? Let's get to know each other!
Suitable for people: the general population can eat it, especially those with low blood pressure.
Taboo crowd: Salted cucumber is usually high in salt and not suitable for people with high blood pressure or poor renal function.
In addition, let's talk about the common sense of salted cucumber:
Six disadvantages of eating cucumber: unclean cucumber should not be eaten raw; It is not suitable to add alkali or eat after high-heat cooking; It is not suitable to discard juice as stuffing; It is not advisable to eat more partial eclipse; Not suitable for eating with pepper and spinach; Not suitable for eating with cauliflower, Chinese cabbage, tomato and orange.
People who eat cucumbers should be avoided: most people can eat them. Especially suitable for people with fever, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, edema, cancer and alcoholism; It is one of the first choice foods for diabetic patients. However, people with spleen and stomach weakness, abdominal pain and diarrhea, lung cold and cough should eat less. Because cucumber is cold, patients with stomach cold are prone to abdominal pain and diarrhea.
In addition, we should also pay attention to the cucumbers we grow, which can be eaten without pesticides; The pollution-free cucumbers sold in the supermarket are all tested and need to be soaked for a quarter of an hour before they can be eaten; Cucumbers bought at farmers' markets are best soaked and peeled before eating.