Summer is the season when all kinds of melons are on the market. Eating more melon at this time can quench thirst and relieve summer heat, reduce fire and dryness, and has many dietetic effects.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter melon is cool and sweet, and enters the lungs, large intestine and bladder meridian, which has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat and reducing fire. It is a very good summer product.

Moreover, the coldness of wax gourd is not as strong as bitter gourd and white radish, so even pregnant women don't have to avoid eating. Patients with gout, hypertension, heart disease, liver disease and beriberi edema may have ascites and dysuria. Winter melon can be cooked and eaten, which is helpful for diuresis and eliminating edema.

When cooking winter melon soup, don't peel and remove seeds in a hurry. It's best to wash the skin of wax gourd and put it in a pot for soup. Removing the skin and melon seeds when cooking can play a diuretic role.

Wax gourd is rich in vitamin B 1 and selenium with anticancer effect. In addition, the crude fiber in wax gourd can stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis and promote the excretion of carcinogens accumulated in the intestine as soon as possible.

The practice of wax gourd:

Fried wax gourd

1) material: 50g wax gourd, 20ml water, 0.25 tsp soy sauce, 0.25 tsp salt and 2 parsley.

working methods

1. Wax gourd slices

2. Put the onion in the oil with a small fire in the pot.

Add wax gourd slices

4. Add some water after frying, about 1/4.

5. Add soy sauce to your favorite color and add a little sugar.

6. Stir-fry the wax gourd until it is transparent, add a little salt, and eat it lightly without adding it.

7. Turn off the fire, add chopped parsley and mix well.

Fried winter melon and shrimp skin

2) Introduction of recipes

Materials; Wax gourd 100g, shrimp skin 5g, oil 1 spoon (15ml), salt 3g, onion, ginger, garlic and pepper.

1. Peel and slice wax gourd, rinse shrimp skin with water, and prepare onion, ginger and garlic foam;

2, the bottom oil in the pot, when the oil is 80% hot, put two or three peppers, then add onions, ginger and garlic, stir-fry the fragrance, and pour the melon slices into the pot and stir-fry for about two minutes;

3, add half a bowl of water, add salt, wax gourd slightly rotten, pour in shrimp skin, stir fry and sprinkle some chopped green onion.