First, how to eat mangosteen
1, first pick the leaves on the mangosteen.
2. After some mangosteen leaves are removed, the pulp will be exposed at the top. Use a kitchen knife to cut down along the gap between two of the pulp, and cut the peel to peel it off, like this one without the pulp exposed. Take a knife and cut it gently on one side. Be careful not to cut the pulp. How to control this degree? Don't worry, because the skin of fresh mangosteen has feelings when cut with a knife.
3. Then break the peel from the cut hole.
4. Finally, just pull out the whole pulp. Pay attention to be careful when the pulp is pulled out, and don't touch the purple water on the skin, otherwise the taste will be astringent.
Tips:
You can squeeze mangosteen well by hand, press the nodules at both ends longitudinally, and the shell will crack.
Second, how to eat mangosteen
Eat raw directly
Bought mangosteen, like durian and pineapple, can enjoy the sweet and slightly sour pulp inside by pulling out the skin.
Mangosteen shell is thick, hard and purple, the meat is white, tender and soft, the taste is sweet and sweet, slightly acidic and cool, lubricating and delicious, quenching thirst, growing hair and nourishing the body, which is a treasure in tropical fruit trees.
May to September is the rich season of mangosteen, and May and June is the peak season. Mangosteen's listing season happens to be the hottest summer. Eating mangosteen will also greatly help to reduce fire and heat, and it will be cool and delicious.
Third, recipe recommendation:
1, mangosteen Hami melon juice
Ingredients: 2 mangosteen and 300g cantaloupe.
Practice: Mangosteen peeled and seeded, Hami melon peeled and seeded and cut into small pieces. Put the two materials into a blender, add 200 ml of cold boiled water and mix well.
Efficacy: improve intelligence and memory, and improve forgetfulness.
2. Steamed mangosteen with fresh shrimp and garlic
Ingredients: mangosteen 250g, fresh shrimp 250g, a little garlic.
Practice: mangosteen is soaked and the pulp is at the bottom; Mix the fresh shrimp with garlic and put it on it; Steam the ingredients together for 5 minutes.
Efficacy: moistening dryness, cooling and relieving fever.
3. Mangosteen lettuce salad
Ingredients: 2 mangosteen, tomato 1 piece, apple 1 piece, lettuce 1 piece, salad dressing.
Practice: mangosteen peeled and seeded, tomato sliced, apple peeled and sliced, lettuce washed. Mix all the ingredients in a platter and drizzle with salad sauce.
Efficacy: Purify blood and lower cholesterol.
4, mangosteen cucumber soup
Ingredients: 200 grams of cucumber, 20 grams of mangosteen, appropriate amount of rock sugar, 4 cups of clear water, and a little of apricot in the north and south.
Practice: put cucumber, mangosteen, apricot, rock sugar and water into the stew pot, cover it, and stew the original pot in boiling water for one hour.
Efficacy: Mangosteen pulp is rich in dietary fiber, sugar, vitamins and mineral elements such as magnesium, calcium, phosphorus and potassium. Chinese medicine believes that it has the effects of clearing away heat, reducing fire, losing weight and moistening skin. For pregnant women with strong liver fire and poor skin, eating mangosteen often can clear away heat and detoxify and improve the skin.