Use bitter melon!

Bitter melon is an annual climbing herb of the Cucurbitaceae family. Its fruit is edible and has extremely high nutritional value. It contains a variety of nutrients and is rich in vitamin B1. It can prevent and treat beriberi and maintain normal heart function. Promote milk secretion and increase appetite. The vitamin C contained in bitter melon is 10 to 20 times that of vegetable melon and loofah. It can prevent scurvy, protect cell membranes, detoxify, prevent atherosclerosis, fight cancer, improve the body's stress ability, prevent colds, and protect the heart. Bitter melon contains an insulin-like substance, polypeptide-P, which has a more significant effect in lowering blood sugar than belbutamide, a drug used to treat diabetes. Bitter melon also contains a proteolipid substance that can stimulate and enhance immune cells in animals to eat cancer. The ability of cells, it can work with quinine in alkaloids to exert anti-cancer effects in the body.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bitter melon has the effects of clearing heat and relieving heat, nourishing blood and replenishing qi, nourishing the kidneys and spleen, nourishing the liver and improving eyesight. It is useful in treating dysentery, sores, febrile diseases, polydipsia, heat stroke, excessive prickly heat, Diseases such as conjunctivitis and short red urine have a certain effect. Because bitter melon is cold in nature, people with spleen and stomach deficiency should not eat too much.

Bitter melon is cool in nature, refreshing and not greasy. It feels cool and comfortable after eating in summer, and has the effect of clearing the mind and stimulating the appetite. Although bitter melon is bitter, it will never impart its bitterness to "others". For example, if you use bitter melon to roast or stew fish, the fish pieces will never be stained with bitterness. Therefore, bitter melon is also known as "gentlemen's dish". For example, brewing bitter melon into herbal tea and drinking it in summer can make people feel refreshed and refreshed, and relieve thirst.

There are not many ways to eat bitter melon. They mainly include stir-frying, cold dressing and making soup, such as stir-fried bitter melon with shredded pork, stir-fried bitter melon, stuffed bitter melon and cold bitter melon. When cooking, cut it into shreds, blanch it in boiling water, and then put it into cold water for later use, which can reduce the bitterness.

Here are some simple and nutritious recipes using bitter melon as the main ingredient:

1. Bitter melon and shepherd's purse lean meat soup

Ingredients: 250g of fresh bitter melon, 50g shepherd's purse, 125g lean pork, appropriate amounts of cooking wine, refined salt, and MSG.

Preparation method: (1) Remove the pulp from the bitter melon and cut into small pieces; wash the lean pork and cut into thin slices; wash and chop the shepherd's purse. (2) Put lean pork into the pot, add cooking wine and refined salt, add water and boil for 5 minutes, add bitter melon and shepherd's purse to make soup, and add MSG. This soup is light and has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on patients with conjunctivitis.

2. Stir-fried pork liver with bitter melon

Ingredients: 125g bitter melon, 250g pork liver, appropriate amounts of garlic, rice wine, soy sauce, sesame oil, refined salt, MSG, and 70g peanut oil.

Preparation method: (1) Salt the bitter melon for 5 minutes to remove the bitterness; cut the pork liver into thin slices, add cooking wine, salt for 10 minutes, blanch in boiling water and drain. (2) Heat the oil pan, add bitter melon, stir-fry a few times, add soy sauce and rice wine and cook briefly, add pork liver, stir-fry a few times, add MSG and serve. This dish is tender and fragrant, and eating it regularly is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of lymphadenoma.

3. Fried shredded pork with bitter melon

Ingredients: 300g bitter melon, 50g lean pork, 50g green and red peppers, 50g peanut oil, soy sauce, vinegar, refined salt, sugar, cooking wine, MSG , ginger, and water starch in appropriate amounts.

Preparation method: (1) Wash the meat, cut into shreds, and slurry with water starch and refined salt; remove the flesh from the bitter gourd and cut into shreds, and cut into shreds from the small peppers. (2) Put the pot on the fire, add oil, and heat until 80% hot. Smooth the shredded pork and set aside. Leave the bottom oil in the pot, add chili pepper and bitter melon, stir-fry for a few times, sprinkle with refined salt, pour in the shredded pork and stir-fry. Stir-fry, add shredded ginger, sugar, soy sauce, vinegar, and MSG, and serve. This dish is an appetizer, diuretic, heat-clearing and detoxifying.

4. Raw mixed bitter melon?

Ingredients: 600g bitter melon, appropriate amounts of white sugar, white vinegar, chives, refined salt and MSG.

Preparation method: (1) Peel and wash the bitter melon, cut into thin slices, sprinkle with refined salt and marinate for a while, drain the water; wash the chives and cut into pieces. (2) Put the sugar, white vinegar, refined salt and MSG into a bowl and mix well to form a sauce. (3) When eating, put the bitter melon into a plate, add the sauce, and sprinkle with chopped chives. This dish is sweet and sour, slightly bitter, crisp and tender, appetizing, relieving heat, nourishing blood and replenishing qi.

5. Stir-fried bitter melon

Ingredients: 300g bitter melon, soak in appropriate amounts of red pepper, garlic, soybean oil, refined salt, monosodium glutamate and red oil.

Preparation method: (1) Remove the stems of bitter melon, wash the seeds, cut into thin strips, soak the red pepper, remove the stems, wash the seeds, cut into thin strips, peel and wash the garlic, cut into thin strips end. (2) Heat the pot, pour in the soybean oil, and when the oil temperature reaches 70%, add refined salt and minced garlic to the pot, add shredded bitter melon and shredded chili pepper and stir-fry until the sauce is cooked and fragrant, add MSG to taste, and pour in The red oil is ready for consumption. This dish is red and white, fresh and spicy, strengthens the spleen and appetizers, nourishes blood and improves eyesight.

6. Bitter melon and coriander

Ingredients: 300g bitter melon, 50g coriander, 25g tempeh, appropriate amounts of refined salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, and spicy oil.

Preparation method: (1) Peel the bitter melon, wash the seeds, cut into thin strips, marinate with refined salt to taste, squeeze out the water, then soak in cold water for a few minutes; wash the coriander and cut into pieces Small paragraph. (2) Put shredded bitter gourd, coriander segments, tempeh, refined salt, and MSG into a bowl, mix well, marinate for a while, and then drizzle with sesame oil and chili oil when eating. This dish is crisp, tender and slightly bitter, clears away heat and relieves summer heat, nourishes blood and replenishes qi.

Luffa contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, citrulline, riboflavin and other B vitamins, vitamin C, and also contains ingredients contained in ginseng - ——Saponins are home-cooked vegetables in summer and autumn. They are delicious, smooth, suitable for all ages, rich in nutrients, and have medicinal value.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loofah is sweet in taste, cool in nature, non-toxic, has the functions of clearing away heat and benefiting the intestines, cooling blood and detoxifying, activating collaterals and promoting menstruation, relieving summer heat, quenching polydipsia, dispelling wind and reducing phlegm, regulating blood circulation, releasing breast milk, It has insecticidal and other functions and is a good health product in summer.

In addition to luffa, luffa flowers, melon rinds, melon leaves, melon vines, melon networks, melon seeds, and melon roots can all be used medicinally. Melon flowers clear away heat and detoxify, and melon rind can treat sores and boils. Melon leaves can clear away heat and detoxify, relieve cough and reduce phlegm, and can be used externally to stop bleeding and reduce inflammation. Melon and Vine stimulate the circulation of blood, relieve cough and eliminate phlegm.

Gualuo can treat chest and rib pain, breast swelling and pain caused by Qi and blood blockage. Melon seeds clear away heat, moisturize dryness and detoxify. Melon seeds can repel roundworms. The melon roots are disinfected and antiseptic, and can cure hemorrhoids and bleeding stools. Modern medicine believes that loofah contains anti-viral and anti-allergic active ingredients. Because of its rich vitamin C content, it can be used to fight scurvy and prevent various vitamin C deficiencies; the B vitamins it contains are beneficial to the brain health of children and middle-aged and elderly people. The juice of the loofah cane has the special function of maintaining skin elasticity and can beautify and remove wrinkles.

Luffa should be peeled when eating. It can be eaten cold, stir-fried, grilled, made into soup, or the juice can be used for dietary therapy. For example, wash and slice the loofah, blanch it in boiling water, and mix it with sesame oil, soy sauce, and vinegar. It can be made into cold loofah. Stir-fried loofah is light and delicious, clears away heat and dampness; roasted loofah with mushrooms can benefit qi and blood and unblock meridians; tomato and loofah soup can clear away heat toxins and eliminate irritability, especially suitable for consumption during summer heat, boredom, thirst and dry throat; take raw loofah Wash and squeeze an appropriate amount of juice, add honey in a ratio of 10:1 and mix well to make raw loofah juice, which has the effect of clearing away heat, relieving cough and reducing phlegm.