Wax gourd is a very familiar food, and its taste is refreshing and moist. In everyone's cognition, most of the winter melon is used to make dishes, such as pork ribs and winter melon soup, stewed winter melon and so on. For the dessert made of winter melon, everyone should be most familiar with winter melon candy, but to be honest, winter melon candy is a bit too sweet, and you will feel bored if you eat more. However, the wax gourd itself has its own characteristics, such as delicate meat, rich water, no strong taste, and it can fully absorb the taste of other ingredients. In short, the wax gourd is a very versatile ingredient, not only suitable for cooking, but also suitable for making sweet-tasting food. ?

Orange juice and winter melon strips

This is a cold dish suitable for eating in summer. When I first ate it, I almost didn't recognize that the ingredients were actually wax gourd. Because of its practice, the taste of another ingredient completely covers the taste of wax gourd, which has become a carrier, but it tastes good.

Ingredients: a piece of wax gourd

Ingredients: a bowl of fresh orange juice, a little white sugar and a little jam.

Practice: 1, melon peeled and peeled, cut into uniform thin strips, about half a centimeter wide and about five centimeters long. 2. Boil the water in the pot and blanch the wax gourd strips in water. Don't cook them for too long. Keep the wax gourd strips in a hard state and maintain a good strip shape. Also, this kind of wax gourd strips will have a little crispy taste and taste better. 3. Remove the wax gourd strips and soak them in an orange juice bowl. You can add a little white sugar. Cover with plastic wrap and soak for more than 2 hours until the wax gourd strips absorb orange juice and turn orange. 4, remove the plate, pour a little jam, and add a little decoration to look better.

You can also change the wax gourd strips into wax gourd balls, which are just as delicious.

Black sugar winter melon tea

This tea can be drunk often in summer, and it has a good effect of relieving summer heat.

Ingredients: a piece of wax gourd, it is more suitable to choose old wax gourd.

Ingredients: appropriate amount of brown sugar, generally 100 grams of wax gourd with about 5 grams of brown sugar. You can put more sweet ones, but not too much, so as not to overwhelm the natural sweet taste of wax gourd.

Practice: 1, wash the wax gourd without peeling or pulp, because only in this way can all the nutrients of wax gourd be preserved. 2. Cut the wax gourd into small dices, add brown sugar and mix well. Marinate for 2 hours. In this process, wax gourd will ooze a lot of liquid, which are all wax gourd juice. 3, pickled melon and melon juice together into the pot, add a little water, simmer, pay attention to stirring, so as not to paste the bottom. 4. Cook until the wax gourd becomes transparent and slightly melted. At this time, the syrup is sticky. Take out the pot and filter the wax gourd with a spoon or strainer. Finally, you can squeeze the wax gourd meat with a spoon and squeeze out the juice as much as possible.

5. Put the filtered soup into a sealed glass bottle and store it in the refrigerator. Drink with water when eating. You can make iced tea in summer, which is sweet and refreshing and has a good effect of relieving summer heat.