Wax gourd includes pulp, pulp and seeds, and is rich in nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral elements.
Studies show that the contents of thiamine, riboflavin and nicotinic acid in melon vitamins are high, among which vitamin B 1 is quite rich in winter melon seeds. There are eight mineral elements such as potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper, phosphorus and selenium, among which the potassium content is obviously higher than the sodium content, which is a typical vegetable with high potassium and low sodium. It contains 8 kinds of essential amino acids except tryptophan, especially glutamic acid, aspartic acid, ornithine, γ -aminobutyric acid and histidine, which are especially needed by children. Wax gourd contains no fat and dietary fiber is as high as 0.8%. It is rich in nutrition and reasonable in structure. The calculation of nutritional quality index shows that wax gourd is a healthy and high-quality food.
Wax gourd is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.
The fresh juice of wax gourd vine is used for washing face and bathing, which can whiten skin and make skin shiny. It is a cheap natural beauty agent.
Winter melon menu
Braised winter melon
Materials?
Wax gourd 1 block
1 root onion
Garlic 5 cloves
step
Sauce mixing: prepare an empty bowl, add 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, and half a spoonful of sugar, then add half a bowl of clear water and stir well for later use.
Put oil in the pan. When the oil is hot, stir-fry garlic with low fire, add wax gourd slices, and fry with low fire until it is slightly soft and yellowish.
Pour the sauce into the pot, cover the pot and cook until the melon is cooked. If you like soft and rotten food, you can stew it for a long time.
Finally, pour the prepared water starch into the wax gourd, collect the juice over high fire, and sprinkle a proper amount of chives on the pot.
Lazy winter melon soup
Materials?
Wax gourd is four taels or half a catty.
Appropriate amount of chicken soup (if not, add water.
A gram of pepper
One gram of salt
Sangen coriander
Four drops of sesame oil
A spoonful of chicken essence
step
Dice the peeled and seedless wax gourd and cook it directly in chicken soup for ten minutes. Add salt, pepper, chicken essence, or even chicken soup. The amount of water depends on the need.
Take another empty bowl, cut coriander powder and drop a few drops of sesame oil.
Put the winter melon soup boiled for ten minutes directly into the bowl.
Stir-fried winter melon
Materials?
Wax gourd 1 circle
Proper amount of salt
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garlic clove
Proper amount of soy sauce
Appropriate amount of oyster sauce
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How to fry winter melon?
Peel and slice wax gourd, and cut it thin.
Dice ginger and garlic, and cut onion into chopped green onion.
Put oil in a hot pan, a little more oil, and minced ginger and garlic. When you smell the fragrance, pour in the wax gourd slices, stir fry, and add salt when you feel dry. If it is still dry, add a little warm water, and be sure to reduce it.
Stir-fry until the color changes, Microsoft, add soy sauce or oyster sauce and chopped green onion, and continue to stir-fry for about 15 seconds.
Seafood wax gourd
Materials?
500 grams of wax gourd
2 slices of ginger
Garlic 3 cloves
Proper amount of dry rice
step
Cut ginger and garlic
Wash and soak dried seaweed.
Stir-fried ginger, garlic and pepper in hot oil (I use peanut oil, lard is more fragrant)
Fried wax gourd
Stir-fry the dried seaweed for about 20 seconds.
Cover the wax gourd with water.
When the water is almost dry, the wax gourd is almost soft.
Add 50 ml of water, a spoonful of salt, a spoonful of chicken essence and two spoonfuls of starch, mix well, put in the pot, wait for a few seconds, stir fry until the soup is thick.
Sprinkle a little chopped green onion on the pot.
Fried melon
Materials?
200 grams of wax gourd
Proper amount of flour
Onion amount
Proper amount of salt
Appropriate amount of white pepper
Steps?
Peel and slice wax gourd, and chop onion leaves.
Mix flour with water, salt, white pepper and chopped green onion to form a flowable batter.
Adjust the batter to usable fluidity.
Wax gourd dipped in batter, both sides wrapped in batter.
Put a little more oil in the pot than usual, and put the wax gourd stained with batter into the pot and fry it slowly.
Fry the wax gourd until both sides turn yellow, then take it out of the pan and put it on a plate.