1, mixed fried: the bitter melon and pepper fried together, can reduce the bitter taste. Bitter melon washed and shredded, frying pan on the fire, do not put oil, pot hot bitter melon silk into the pot to stir-fry, such as too dry can add a little water, stir-frying pot to be used. Then hot frying pan fried chili pepper wire, and then the fried bitter melon wire into the stir-fry, add the right amount of salt and sugar, out of the pan.

2, salted: the cut melon slices sprinkled with salt marinade for a while, and then filter out the water, can reduce the bitter taste.

3, water blanching: cut the bitter melon into cubes, first boiled in water, and then put into cold water to soak, so that the bitterness can be removed, but also lost the flavor of the bitter melon.

4, water bleaching: the bitter melon cut open, seeded, cut into strips, and then rinsed with cool water, wash while gently pinched with the hand, wash for a while and then wash the water, so repeated rinsing three or four times, the bitter juice is lost with the water. This handled the bitter melon fried, flavorful, slightly bitter and sweet.

5, chilled: that is, after the bitter melon slices in ice water soaked for a period of time and then take out, so that the bitter flavor can reduce some. Or put it into the freezer.

6, high temperature: is the bitter melon slices with boiling water over again.

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Nutritional Value of Bitter Melon

Clearing heat and detoxification: Bitter Melon can drain away the heat in the heart and eliminate toxins in the body. The best way to eat bitter melon is cold. Cold can be very good to retain the vitamins contained in the bitter melon. If the method of stir-frying, will make these vitamins in the process of stir-frying a lot of loss, and stir-frying after the oil content is relatively high, people will consume more fat, can not play the role of cool and defeat fire.

Nurturing and rejuvenating skin: often eat bitter melon can enhance the cortex vitality, so that the skin becomes tender and healthy. With fresh bitter melon mashed juice or decoction, on the liver fire red eyes, stomach pain, damp heat dysentery, are auxiliary therapeutic good; take fresh bitter melon mashed compress, can treat carbuncle, boils; summer children prone to prickly heat, will be sliced and rubbed on the body of the prickly heat rash, can be cured as soon as possible; bitter melon boiled water or as a gourmet food, can be dissipated to solve the summer heat.

Lowering blood sugar: mussels and bitter gourd soup is a top product for lowering blood sugar. Bitter melon crude extract contains insulin-like substances, there are obvious hypoglycemic effect. According to Chinese medicine, bitter melon is sweet, bitter, cold and cool, can clear heat, remove annoyance, quench thirst; mussels are sweet, salty and cold, can clear heat and nourish yin, quench thirst and diuretic. The two together, clearing heat and nourishing yin, applicable to diabetes favoring stomach yin deficiency with heat.

Nourishing blood and nourishing the liver: bitter melon flavor bitter, raw is cold, cooked is warm. Raw food to clear the summer heat and fire, relieve the heat in addition to annoyance; cooked food to nourish blood nourish the liver, moisten the spleen and tonic kidney, in addition to the evil heat, to solve the fatigue, clear the mind and eyesight, the benefit of qi and yang. But eat bitter melon should also pay attention to not damage the spleen and lungs of the gas. Despite the summer heat, but people should not eat too much bitter food, and it is best to match the pungent food (such as chili, pepper, onion, garlic), so as to avoid the bitter taste into the heart, which helps to tonify the lungs.

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