(1) Select mature pumpkins with hard skin, long maturity and orange-red flesh, wash them, cut them open with pedicels, peel them, and remove seeds and pulp.

(2) After pumpkin treatment, cut it into round slices with a thickness of about 5mm and soak it in water for 30 minutes.

(3) Evenly string rolls of pumpkin slices on a bamboo pole and dry them for about 5 days until they feel dry.

(4) Put the dried pumpkin slices into a steamer, steam for about 6 minutes, take them out, quickly cool them, and spread them on a bamboo curtain to dry them until the water content is below 10%.

(5) Put a certain amount of water into a stainless steel pot, boil it, mix the starch with cold water evenly [the ratio of starch to water is (8 ~ 10): 100], then slowly pour it into boiling water, and stir it while cooking until it becomes paste.

(6) Put the dried pumpkin slices into the slurry, evenly coat a thin layer of slurry, immediately spread them on a bamboo curtain, expose them to the sun for 1 day, or spread them on a drying tray, bake them in an oven, control the temperature at 55 ~ 65℃, and naturally cool them when the slurry on the surface is dry and elastic.

(7) The cooled pumpkin slices are dried pumpkins and packed in food plastic bags or plastic boxes.

2. The medicinal value of pumpkin:

Because cucurbitacin, trigonelline, pectin and other physiologically active substances in pumpkin can catalyze the decomposition of carcinogenic nitrosamines, accelerate the dissolution of kidney calculi and bladder stones, help eliminate excess cholesterol in human body and prevent arteriosclerosis. Pumpkin also has the functions of improving eyesight and treating asthma. Eating pumpkin regularly can prevent night blindness. Dried pumpkin, processed with pumpkin. Pumpkin has high nutritional value and certain medicinal value.