Pumpkin is rich in zinc, which is involved in nucleic acid and protein synthesis in the body, and is an inherent component of adrenocorticotropic hormone, an important substance for human growth.

Pumpkin contains a variety of amino acids needed by the human body, including lysine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, threonine and other high content.

Pumpkin leaves contain a variety of vitamins and minerals, of which the content of vitamin C is very high, so that it has an excellent heat effect, summer with pumpkin leaves boiled water to drink, you can play the role of summer heat in addition to the role.

Pumpkin recipes

Steamed pumpkin

Raw materials: pumpkin a.

Practice:

1. Wash the pumpkin, remove the seeds and filaments inside, peel the pumpkin skin (do not peel too thick, it will affect the taste, and easy to break).

2. Cut the pumpkin into chunks about 5 centimeters wide and 15 centimeters long.

3. Put the pumpkin pieces in one layer on a plate, and sprinkle some sugar on the pumpkin as appropriate.

4. Put on the steam bellows to steam can be.

Pumpkin Cake

Ingredients: pumpkin, flour, honey, sesame seeds, cooking oil.

Practice:

1. Wash the pumpkin, remove the skin and pith, cut into pieces, put into the steamer to steam and mash into puree, add honey, flour, and then made into the same size of the cake, and then coated with breadcrumbs to be used.

2. Sit in a pot, pour in cooking oil, light the fire, to 4 mature, the round cake into the oil to cook until yellow.

Crisp fried pumpkin silk

Raw materials: with green skin a small uniformly tender pumpkin 1 to 2, 50 grams of vegetable oil, salt, scallions a little.

Practice:

1. tender pumpkin with skin wash, cut fine silk, spread in the sun to dry for half a day.

2. frying pan on the fire, into the vegetable oil is hot, pour into the pumpkin silk, stir fry with high fire 2 to 3 minutes, sprinkle salt, upside down to stir fry, into the onion and then upside down two, out of the pot that is complete.

Pepper and salt pumpkin strips

Raw materials: 500 grams of pumpkin, 200 grams of wheat flour, 50 grams of vegetable oil, 20 grams of soy sauce, 3 grams of salt, 1 gram of monosodium glutamate, 20 grams of pepper.

Practice:

1. Wash the old pumpkin, peel the skin, cut open and dig out the flesh and seeds, then clean, cut into 4 cm long, 1 cm wide and thick strip.

2. Put the flour in a large bowl, add refined salt, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and the right amount of water, mix into a thicker batter, put the pumpkin into the strips, fully stirred, so that each pumpkin boiled with batter.

3. Put the frying pan on medium heat, pour vegetable oil, burn to 50 percent hot, put pumpkin strips quickly scattered, flip, cook until the melon strips floating on the oil surface when the fish out of the oil.

4. frying pan oil to seventy percent of the heat will be boiled melon strips into the pot to cook, cook until yellow drained oil plate, sprinkle pepper salt can be on the table for food.

Oil with melon

Raw materials: 300 grams of pumpkin, 50 grams of eggs, 20 grams of flour, 25 grams of vegetable oil, starch (corn) 10 grams, 2 grams of salt, 5 grams of green onion, 2 grams of ginger, 2 grams of monosodium glutamate (MSG), 4 grams of pepper, 5 grams of five-spice powder.

Practice:

1. chopped scallions and ginger.

2. pumpkin peeled, pith washed, cut into strips, add refined salt, monosodium glutamate, onion and ginger mixed well marinated for 10 minutes.

3. Eggs knocked into a bowl, add flour, starch, salt, monosodium glutamate into a paste.

4. Frying pan oil to 50 percent heat, the pumpkin strip by strip dipped into the egg paste into the oil to cook until yellow, fish up oil control.

5. frying pan, leave a little oil hot, into the onion and ginger cooking flavor, pour into the pumpkin strips, sprinkle pepper, five spice powder stir fry can be.