Pumpkin flowers contains a large amount of carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A in human body, and has a health care effect on vision. Rutin contained in pumpkin flowers has auxiliary functions of promoting blood vessel and heart function, promoting blood coagulation and preventing bleeding. Pumpkin flowers also has the effects of clearing damp-heat, reducing swelling and removing blood stasis, and can be used to treat inflammation such as cough, dysentery and mastitis.
Pumpkin flowers is suitable for frying, frying, boiling and steaming. There are many kinds of dishes. When eating pumpkin flowers, remember to break off the stamens. Although there are many pollen on the stamens, it is recommended not to eat them because of their bitter taste. Here are some ways to eat.
1. pumpkin flowers fried eggs
5 fresh pumpkin flowers flowers, with stamens removed, washed once, chopped, or torn into strips. Put 3 eggs into a bowl, add 1 tablespoon of soy sauce and 1 tablespoon of cooking wine, and stir them clockwise with chopsticks. Put the chopped pumpkin flowers and onion into the egg liquid, add half a teaspoon of salt and stir well. Add vegetable oil to the pot, pour the pumpkin flowers egg liquid, and fry it on medium fire until both sides are golden.
2. pumpkin flowers cake
6 fresh pumpkin flowers flowers, with the stamens removed, cleaned and chopped. One flower is torn into 4 strips, and the flour is 3 liang. If you like to eat glutinous rice flour, you can replace it with glutinous rice flour. Add half a bowl of clear water to the flour, add an egg, add a spoonful of sugar and a spoonful of salt, and mix well in pumpkin flowers. The amount of oil in the pot is much more than usual. When the oil is 80% hot, slowly pour the mixed pumpkin flour paddle into the pot and fry it. In the meantime, turn the pot and stick it on the other side until one side is golden, so that the pumpkin flowers cake is evenly heated and golden on both sides.
3. Fried pumpkin flowers
Pumpkin flowers can be fried directly or with batter. Pumpkin flowers is fried by frying the whole pumpkin flowers in oil, adding salt and light soy sauce to keep the original flavor.
Step 4 Stir-fry pumpkin flowers
Stir-fried pumpkin flowers is also a whole flower stir-fried. Remove the stamens, and stir-fry with celery, lettuce and other vegetables, just like ordinary vegetable stir-frying, and put some peppers in the heavy taste.
5. pumpkin flowers Sliced Meat Soup
Slice the lean meat, marinate it with salt, cooking wine, soy sauce and starch for a quarter of an hour, remove the stamens in pumpkin flowers, break them into two petals, add a little vegetable oil, fry the fat meat until it is crisp, add the lean meat and stir-fry it a few times, add water to cook it, pour it into pumpkin flowers, add appropriate amount of pepper and salt, and cook it in pumpkin flowers. This soup tastes better with fresh mushrooms.