To be precise, instead of using watermelon to cook, we use watermelon skin to cook. More precisely, it is not the watermelon skin used for cooking in rural areas, but some city people have nothing to ponder. Yan Zi grew up in the countryside and left the countryside at the age of 18, but he never really left the countryside. But in the countryside, Yanzi has never seen anyone stir-fry watermelon skin. Everyone chopped it up and fed it to chickens and ducks, and some even threw it away. But after graduating from college, Yanzi was assigned to the city and often attended some dinners. From the dinner, I learned that watermelon skin can also be eaten, and I also learned to fry watermelon skin.

According to city people, watermelon peel has many functions, which can be used as medicine and edible. Chinese medicine believes that watermelon peel is cool and sweet, and has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat and diuresis, so it is the first choice fruit in summer.

Watermelon peel can be used as medicine to remove prickly heat and furuncle, external application to eliminate skin itching, skin care and make skin smooth. Applying watermelon peel slices to sunburned skin can also repair sunburn with obvious effect. Watermelon peel has a better diuretic effect than watermelon pulp. Eating watermelon peel can reduce cholesterol accumulation, soften and dilate blood vessels. I remember there was a Chinese medicine called watermelon frost, which was used to treat oral ulcers. Folk soil can treat sores on the lips and tongue by putting the burnt watermelon skin in the mouth.

If you have heatstroke in summer, wiping your body with watermelon skin can also quickly lower your body temperature.

Although watermelon peel is not as sweet as watermelon pulp, it has no other peculiar smell. The thicker the watermelon skin, the more useful it is. If it is used for cooking, it is easy to taste, and the other is sweet and crisp, which tastes better. The simplest way is to fry the inside of the pig with watermelon skin. Remove the hard skin from the watermelon skin, scrape off the red pulp, and cut the rest into thin strips. Slice the pork into thin slices, stir-fry the pork in a pot, and push the watermelon strips into the pan. Because watermelons can be eaten raw, you don't need to fry too much watermelon skin, which will affect the crispness. Stir-fry the watermelon skin until it changes color, then add seasoning and take it out.

Watermelon skin goes well with pork. In addition to frying together, you can also shred the lean pork and cool it, then shred the watermelon skin and blanch it with boiling water. Add seasonings together and stir well. It is also an excellent cold dish, especially suitable for drinking in summer.

Watermelon peel is suitable for stews and soups in addition to stir-frying cold salad. Stewed with fresh lotus leaves, watermelon skin and loofah, it tastes good. Watermelon peel boiled with rock sugar is an excellent summer feed, which can effectively prevent heatstroke. Add watermelon peel to mung bean soup, and the effect of relieving summer heat is better. In addition, watermelon peel can also be cooked with red dates into tea or soup to accompany meals.

To sum up, watermelon peel, as a dish, has simple preparation method, various eating methods, no peculiar smell and remarkable efficacy, and is suitable for most people to eat. However, diabetic patients and patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, dyspepsia and renal insufficiency should eat less watermelon and watermelon peel. In addition, watermelon peel should be used together, and it is not recommended to eat after storage.