Pumpkins were introduced to China from Central America in ancient times.

Pumpkin is probably eaten as a staple food in poor families because pumpkin is easy to sow, has strong vitality, produces abundant fruits, can be used as a vegetable or staple food, and is rich in nutrients.

Not only that, the whole pumpkin plant can be used in traditional Chinese medicine, let’s not talk about it for now.

And speaking of pumpkin fruit, it can be used in various gourmet dishes, and it is not a bad idea to use it as a staple food occasionally.

Pumpkin can be steamed, boiled into pumpkin porridge, made into pumpkin pie, stewed, or fried. There are many ways to make it. We have selected a few special ones to recommend to you.

Stewed Pumpkin Stewed pumpkin is sweet, soft and glutinous, nourishes the stomach, reduces inflammation and lowers blood sugar.

Method: 1. Peel the old pumpkin, then cut it into 2CM cubes, peel the garlic and mince it into puree. 2. Put the pumpkin pieces and minced garlic into a bowl, add light soy sauce, salt and salad oil and mix well. 3. Cover.

Cover the bowl with a lid or high-temperature plastic wrap and simmer over high heat for 5 minutes.

(Leave it uncovered and the water will be lost) 4. Sprinkle with chopped green onion or coriander and you can eat millet pumpkin porridge. Drinking millet pumpkin porridge regularly is good for beauty, lowering blood sugar, nourishing the stomach, digesting food, preventing cancer, preventing miscarriage, and reducing inflammation...

.Special reminder, one bowl of millet has more nutrition than three bowls of white rice, so students who are trying to lose weight can pay more attention to this porridge.

Method: 1. Peel and dice the pumpkin. 2. Wash the millet.

(Method for washing millet: put millet in a large basin to collect a lot of water, stir it up and pour out the floating water. Repeat twice. Do not rub it with your hands. Rubbing with your hands will cause a lot of nutrient loss.) 3. Put it in a rice cooker and soak it for half an hour, then boil it.

Until soft.

(All grains are soaked before cooking, the specific principle is unknown) Fried pumpkin Fried pumpkin is soft and sweet, and has a rich and mellow taste. Be sure to eat it while it is hot. One bite will fill your mouth with flavor. Method: 1. Peel the pumpkin and cut it into pieces.

Cut into slices and marinate with salt for half an hour (to release some water so that they won’t lose shape when fried) 2. Mix flour, salt and pepper to form a batter, set aside 3. Dip the marinated pumpkin slices on both sides

Batter 4. Pour a little oil into the pan and fry the pumpkin over low heat until both sides are golden brown.