How to eat bergamot
There are many ways to eat bergamot. Fresh melon can be sliced and shredded, fried with meat, fried with vegetables, cold salad, soup, hot pot and high-quality dumpling stuffing. It can also be processed into pickled products or canned food. In foreign countries, fingered citron is eaten by steaming, baking, frying and frying. Young leaves and shoots of Chaenomeles can also be eaten as vegetables. When eating chayote, it is best to choose the young fruit, which is shiny on the shoulder and shallow on the surface of the peel, and the peel is bright green, tender and unhardened.
Chaenomeles is full of nutrition in melons and vegetables, and eating it regularly is beneficial to enhance the body's ability to resist diseases.
Stir-fried bergamot
Ingredients: 2 bergamot, green pepper 1 piece, red pepper 1 piece, a little onion, a little ginger, a little garlic, a little salt and a little cooking oil.
Practice:
1. Wash the fingered citron, remove the seeds and shred it for later use;
2. Heat the oil in the pan, add the onion, ginger and garlic to make it smell, add the pepper to make it smell, add the shredded bergamot and salt and stir-fry for 2 minutes.
Be sure to remove the seeds from the melon, otherwise it will affect the taste. Chayote can be eaten raw. Stir-fry for 2 minutes is enough. If it is too old, it will not be crisp.
Fried shredded chicken with bergamot
Ingredients: chicken breast, egg white, fingered citron, mushrooms, colored peppers, salt, chopped green onion and water starch.
method of work
1. Slice the chicken breast and cut it into thin filaments. Mix an egg white well and add some salt.
2. Peel and shred the bergamot, blanch with boiling water and rinse with cold water to drain.
3. Cut mushrooms and colored peppers into filaments
4. Take the oil pan, add shredded chicken and stir-fry it loosely, add shredded vegetables after discoloration, and add salt to stir-fry.
5. Slice the minced pork and cut the chopped green onion
Medicinal value of bergamot
Bergamot, also known as bergamot and bergamot slice, is the fruit of bergamot, a small evergreen tree or shrub in Rutaceae. Bergamot is mainly produced in Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan, Zhejiang and other provinces. Among them, Zhejiang Jinhua Bergamot is the most famous, and it is called Golden Bergamot, which integrates medicinal and ornamental functions. It is called the fairy product in the fruit and the exotic flower in the world. Bergamot belongs to the genus Citrus of Rutaceae, and its characters are similar to those of citrus and pomelo, and it is closely related to citron and lemon. Bergamot originated in India and was introduced to China for cultivation. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this product is pungent, bitter and warm in nature, enters the liver, spleen, stomach and lung meridians, and has the functions of soothing the liver, regulating qi, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm. It is suitable for hypochondriac pain, chest tightness caused by liver depression and qi stagnation, abdominal distension, anorexia, stomachache, belching, nausea and cough with excessive phlegm caused by spleen and stomach qi stagnation. "Notes on Materia Medica" states that it can regulate qi quickly and diaphragmatic, but it is suitable for those with liver-qi stagnation. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says bergamot has a pungent and non-toxic smell; Indications: lower qi, eliminating phlegm and water in the heart; Boil wine and drink, treat phlegm and cough; Boil soup to cure the pain in the heart. According to modern medical analysis, bergamot dried fruit contains limonin, a small amount of geraniol and hesperidin, and various vitamins, which can dilate coronary artery and inhibit intestinal movement in vitro.
Bergamot not only has high ornamental value, but also has precious medicinal and economic value. The whole body of bergamot is a treasure, and its roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits can be used as medicine. It is pungent, bitter, sweet, warm and non-toxic. It enters the three meridians of liver, spleen and stomach, and has many medicinal functions, such as regulating qi and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and relieving bloating, soothing the liver, strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach. According to historical records, the root of bergamot can cure men's weakness and weakness of limbs; Flowers and fruits can be used to make tea, which has the function of getting rid of gas; Fruit can cure stomach diseases, vomiting, burping, hypertension, tracheitis, asthma and other diseases. According to the Book of Meridian, bergamot has the functions of treating swelling and swelling, leukorrhagia of women and sobering up, which is the main raw material for preparing bergamot Chinese patent medicine.
The alcohol extract of bergamot has obvious inhibitory effect on intestinal smooth muscle; It can dilate coronary vessels and increase coronary blood flow, inhibit myocardial contractility, slow down heart rate, lower blood pressure and protect experimental myocardial ischemia at high concentration; Bergamot has certain antiasthmatic and expectorant effects; Bergamot polysaccharide can obviously promote the multi-link immune function, promote the phagocytosis of peritoneal macrophages, and obviously resist the immunosuppression caused by cyclophosphamide