As the saying goes, "Eat buds in spring, seeds in summer, fruits in autumn, and roots in winter." In summer, the temperature is high, the precipitation is high, and the conditions are hot and humid. Various melons and vegetables are not only light and refreshing in taste, but also rich in nutrients. More importantly, they contain a lot of water. Eating more melons and vegetables will make you feel full. It is strong and can also help replenish the body's lack of water content. This is a good choice for people who pursue beauty and have lost weight. However, losing weight is not about dieting. My colleagues in the office said helplessly: If you ate just a few bites of vegetables and rice every day like a big-name celebrity, losing weight would no longer be a problem. However, this What to do with all the work at hand? My stomach is empty and I feel dizzy. Where can I find the energy to work? How can I have time and energy to think about my family when I get home?

Although losing weight is important, if you eat nutritious food, eat less greasy, high-fat and high-calorie foods, stay 70% full during meals, and persist for a period of time, you may get results. Among the many melons and vegetables that are eaten in time in summer, zucchini is one of the vegetables that not only has nutrients but can also help lose weight.

Zucchini is in season now, with tender and juicy meat and low price. The key is that it is rich in nutrients: it contains trace elements such as vitamin C, glucose water, calcium, carotene, etc. It is truly high in vitamin C. High-calcium milk, and zucchini also has the reputation of "pure natural nutritional food"; carrots contain trace elements such as carotene, vitamin D, vitamin b21, vitamin b22, proanthocyanidins, calcium, iron, etc. Eating these ingredients together will not only make the color combination beautiful and appetizing, but also supplement each other's vitamins. Next, I will strongly recommend using these two ingredients to make a summer fat-reduction meal:

1. Steamed zucchini and carrot cabbage dumplings

Ingredients: 1 zucchini, half of a carrot , half a small plate of cornmeal, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 coriander, pepper noodles, edible salt, light soy sauce, rice vinegar, and appropriate amount of sesame oil

Preparation steps:

1: First put Wash the zucchini, remove the head and tail, and grate it into thin strips. Peel and wash most of the carrot, and grate it into thin strips. Put the zucchini shreds and carrot shreds into a bowl. Wash and cut the chives into mince, wash the garlic and put it into a garlic mortar with appropriate amount of salt to make minced garlic and set aside.

2: Add half a teaspoon of salt, half a teaspoon of Sichuan peppercorns, and half a small plate of cornmeal to the bowl and mix well. Take the appropriate ingredients and form a vegetable ball. No need to form a ball. It's very big, about the size of a small steamed bun; then put the remaining ingredients in the bowl into vegetable dumplings. [Note in this step: Because zucchini is rich in juice, your hands should be light so that the vegetable balls can be easily formed. Be careful not to allow the juice to move due to excessive force with your hands. ]

3: Place a stainless steel steamer on the fire, put in a wet drawer cloth, then place the vegetable dumplings on top, add cold water to the pot, and steam for 15 minutes after the water boils.

4: When steaming vegetable dumplings, let’s prepare the sauce together: take a small bowl, add minced garlic and coriander, then pour in 2 tsp light soy sauce and 1 tsp rice vinegar. , 2 teaspoons of cold water, appropriate amount of sesame oil, salt, and mix all the seasonings evenly.

5: Wait for the vegetable dumplings to cool down slightly, then take them off the plate and eat them with the sauce. They are soft, glutinous and nutritious, and are especially delicious~

2. Steaming Tips for making zucchini, carrot and vegetable dumplings

1. Many good friends like to use salt to remove the water from the vegetables after grating them or before preparing some fillings. , In fact, unless the food contains a lot of water, for example, if you use cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. to make fillings, you need to add salt to kill the water. It is best not to kill the nutrient juice in the vegetables in the filling. In this steamed dish:

1) Zucchini is tender and tender. There is no need to remove the seeds before shredding, and there is no need to kill the water after shredding, because the moisture content of carrot shreds will be lower than that of zucchini and zucchini. The poured cornmeal can mix the zucchini shreds, carrot shreds, and cornmeal into a state where the humidity is relatively high but the juice will not flow.

2) After the above three ingredients were mixed with added salt and peppercorns, they were formed into small vegetable balls by hand. I used 1 zucchini, a carrot, and more than half a bowl of corn dough. After eating 8 small vegetable balls, there was not a drop of juice left in the bowl.

3) When you are making, if the ingredients are indeed too moist, you can add a little cornmeal or wheat flour to appropriately increase the stickiness so that the vegetable dumplings can better clump together.

2. The vegetable dumplings only need to be added with edible salt and peppercorns to give them some base flavor. There is no need to add condiments such as vegetable oil and five-spice powder. This steamed vegetable dumpling is as light-flavored and original as possible. of.

3. No wheat flour is added, but the vegetable dumplings before steaming are still clumps. However, they are not as malleable as steamed buns, so after they are cooked, wait for the vegetables to cook. Let the dumplings dry for a while before taking them out. If you take them off while they are hot, they will fall apart very easily.

4. In this steamed dish: zucchini and carrots are the main ingredients, and only a small amount of cornmeal is enough. Cornmeal contains less fat cells and sugar and more dietary fiber. While losing weight, it can also ensure the reasonable nutritional value that the human body needs.