Bitter melon, also known as cool melon, alias Kam Lychee, is a vegetable used to clear the summer heat. It is an annual herbaceous plant of the Cucurbitaceae family, native to tropical Asia and widely distributed in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions.

Bitter melon is a special kind of vegetable inside, some people think bitter melon is very bitter, while some people no matter what bitter melon practices are favorite. Bitter melon in the summer has a unique health effects, nutritional value is very rich. But how to remove a bitter flavor of bitter melon? What are the practices of bitter melon?

Bitter melon practice

Sprite bitter melon

Raw materials: bitter melon, Sprite, fresh goji berries, half a teaspoon of salt

Practice:

1, the bitter melon washed on the broken, seeded diagonally slice into uniformly thin slices.

2, the water boiled, into the bitter melon slices blanch for a minute, fish out of cold water, drain the water.

3, bitter melon into a large bowl, sprinkle salt, pour Sprite, not over the bitter melon, cover with plastic wrap into the refrigerator for 2 hours, remove, empty dry water on the plate.

Honey bitter melon

Raw materials: 1 bitter melon, goji berries 10, oil, salt, sugar, honey, water

Practice:

1, the bitter melon washed, open, remove the bitter melon flesh, the bitter melon diagonally cut into slices.

2, add water to boil in the pot, add a little salt, a few drops of cooking oil, bitter melon poured in, blanch until discolored, fish out, put in cool water over.

3, take a bowl, add the right amount of honey, sugar, add plain water, honey: sugar: plain water = 1:1:1, mix well.

4, bitter melon slices drained, put into the tuned honey juice, goji berries rinsed with water, put into the bitter melon, mix well.

Water bleaching method:

Bitter melon cut, the use of water constantly rinsing, while squeezing the bitter melon, wash for a while to change the water once, and so on for several times, slowly the bitter taste will be reduced, but in the stir-fried vegetables, will still be with some bitter taste.

Going to the scoop method:

The bitter melon along the bitter melon above the direction of the article cut into two slices, to go to the son, immediately after the flesh of a layer of white melon flesh to remove clean, you can effectively remove part of the bitter taste.

Mixed stir-fry method:

Wash and shred the bitter melon, frying pan on the fire without oil. Pan hot bitter gourd silk into the pan stir fry, such as too dry can add a little water, stir fry cook pot to be used. Then hot frying pan fried chili pepper wire, and then the fried bitter melon wire into the stir-fry, add the right amount of salt and sugar out of the pan. Stir fry the bitter melon and chili pepper together, can reduce the bitter taste.

Bitter melon nutrients

Bitter melon also contains crude fiber, carotene, bitter melon glycosides, phosphorus, iron and a variety of minerals, amino acids and other nutrients.

Bitter gourd medicinal efficacy

(1) bitter gourd cold taste bitter, there is a lowering of the evil heat, relief of fatigue, clearing the mind and eyesight, beneficial to the efficacy of the yang. Fresh bitter melon tea, heat stroke fever has a certain effect, while the bitter melon dried with tea

drink, very effective in reducing blood sugar.

(2) Modern medicine has found that there is an active protein within the bitter melon, can effectively promote the body's immune cells to kill cancer cells, has a certain anti-cancer effect.