Wax gourd includes pulp, pulp and seeds, and is rich in nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral elements.
The results showed that thiamine, riboflavin and nicotinic acid were high in winter melon vitamins, with vitamin B 1, which was quite rich in winter melon seeds. There are 8 mineral elements such as potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper, phosphorus and selenium, among which the potassium content is significantly higher than the sodium content, which is a typical vegetable with high potassium and low sodium. It contains 8 kinds of essential amino acids except tryptophan, with high contents of glutamic acid and aspartic acid, ornithine, Y-aminobutyric acid and histidine specially needed by children. Wax gourd contains no fat, and dietary fiber is as high as 0.8%. It is rich in nutrition and reasonable in structure. The calculation of nutritional quality index shows that wax gourd is a healthy and high-quality food.
Wax gourd is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and has the effects of eliminating heat, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.
The fresh juice of wax gourd vine is used for washing face and bathing, which can whiten skin and make skin shiny. It is a cheap natural beauty agent.
Wax gourd menu
Braised winter melon
Materials?
Wax gourd 1 block
Shallot 1 root
Garlic 5 cloves
step
Sauce mixing: prepare an empty bowl, add 1 teaspoon of light soy sauce, 1 teaspoon of light soy sauce, 1 teaspoon of oyster sauce, and half a teaspoon of sugar, then add half a bowl of clear water, and stir well for later use.
Put the oil in the pan, stir-fry the garlic in a small fire after the oil is hot, add the wax gourd pieces, and fry over low heat until it is slightly soft and yellow.
Pour the seasoning juice into the pot, cover the pot and cook until the melon is cooked. If you like to eat soft and rotten, you can stew it for a long time.
Finally, pour the prepared water starch into the wax gourd, collect the juice over high fire, and sprinkle the appropriate amount of chives on the pan.
Lazy winter melon soup
Materials?
Wax gourd is four liang or half a catty.
Appropriate amount of chicken soup (if not, put water on it.
One gram of pepper
One gram of salt
Three coriander roots
Four drops of sesame oil
A spoonful of chicken essence
step
Cut the peeled and seedless wax gourd into cubes and cook it directly in chicken soup for ten minutes. Add salt, pepper and chicken essence, even without chicken soup white water. The amount of water depends on the need.
Take another empty bowl, cut the coriander powder and drop a few drops of sesame oil.
Put the winter melon soup boiled for ten minutes directly into the bowl.
Stir-fried wax gourd
Materials?
Wax gourd 1 circle
Proper amount of salt
Congruyi
garlic clove
Proper amount of soy sauce
Appropriate amount of oyster sauce
Ginger a little
How to stir-fry winter melon?
Peel and slice the wax gourd, and cut it thin.
Dice ginger and garlic, and cut onion into chopped green onion.
Put oil in a hot pan, a little more oil, and add minced ginger and garlic. When you smell the fragrance, pour in the wax gourd slices, stir fry, and add salt if it feels dry. If it is still dry, add a little warm water, and be sure to be less.
Stir-fry until the color changes, Microsoft, add soy sauce or oyster sauce and chopped green onion, and continue to stir-fry for about 15 seconds.
Seafood wax gourd
Materials?
500 grams of wax gourd
Ginger 2 tablets
Garlic 3 cloves
Proper amount of dried rice
step
Cut ginger and garlic
Wash dried dried seaweed and soak it.
Stir-fry ginger, garlic and pepper in hot oil (I use peanut oil, but lard is more fragrant)
Stir-fry winter melon
Stir-fry the sea rice for about 20 seconds.
Cover wax gourd with water.
When the water is almost dry, the wax gourd is almost soft.
Add 50ml of water, one spoonful of salt, one spoonful of chicken essence and two spoonfuls of starch, mix well, add to the pot, wait for a few seconds, stir fry, and wait until the soup is thick.
Sprinkle a little chopped green onion on the pan.
Pan-fried melon
Materials?
200 grams of wax gourd
Proper amount of flour
Proper amount of onion
Proper amount of salt
Appropriate amount of white pepper
Steps?
Peel and slice wax gourd, and chop onion leaves.
Mix flour with proper amount of water, salt, white pepper and chopped green onion to form a flowable flour paste.
Adjust the flour paste to such fluidity that it can be used.
Dip the wax gourd into the flour paste and wrap the flour paste on both sides.
Put a little more oil in the pot than usual, and put the wax gourd stained with flour paste into the pot and fry it slowly over low heat.
Pan-fry the wax gourd until both sides are yellow, then take it out of the pan and put it on the plate.