Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bitter gourd has the effects of clearing away heat and summer heat, nourishing blood and benefiting qi, tonifying kidney and spleen, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, and has certain curative effect on dysentery, sores, fever, polydipsia, heatstroke, excessive miliaria, conjunctivitis and short urine. Because bitter gourd is cold, people with spleen and stomach deficiency should not eat more.
Bitter gourd is cool, refreshing and not greasy. After eating in summer, it feels cool and comfortable, and has the effect of clearing heart and appetizing. Bitter gourd is bitter, but it will never be passed on to others. For example, using bitter gourd to make fish and stew fish, fish pieces will never be bitter, so bitter gourd also has a name called "gentleman's dish". If bitter gourd is made into herbal tea to drink in summer, it can make people feel refreshed and quench their thirst in summer.
There are not many ways to eat bitter gourd, mainly fried, cold salad and soup, such as fried shredded pork, dry fried bitter gourd, brewed bitter gourd and cold bitter gourd. When cooking, shred it first, scald it with boiling water, and then put it in cold water for later use, which can reduce the bitterness.
Here are some simple nutrition recipes based on bitter gourd:
1, bitter gourd shepherd's purse thin broth
Ingredients: fresh bitter gourd 250g, shepherd's purse 50g, lean pork 125g, cooking wine, refined salt and monosodium glutamate.
Method: (1) remove the pulp of bitter gourd and cut it into cubes; Clean lean pork and cut it into thin slices; Wash and chop shepherd's purse. (2) Put lean pork into a pot, add cooking wine and refined salt, add water and boil for 5 minutes, add bitter gourd and shepherd's purse to cook soup, and add monosodium glutamate. This soup is light and has an auxiliary treatment effect on conjunctivitis patients.
2, bitter gourd fried pork liver
Ingredients: bitter gourd 125g, pork liver 250g, garlic, yellow wine, soy sauce, sesame oil, refined salt, monosodium glutamate and peanut oil 70g.
Method: (1) add salt to bitter gourd for 5 minutes to remove bitterness; Slice pork liver, add cooking wine and salt 10 minute, blanch with boiling water and drain. (2) Heat the oil pan, add bitter gourd, stir fry a few times, add soy sauce and yellow wine to cook slightly, pour pork liver, stir fry a few times, and add monosodium glutamate. This dish is fresh, tender and fragrant, which is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of lymphatic adenocarcinoma if eaten frequently.
3, bitter gourd fried pork
Ingredients: bitter gourd 300g, lean pork 50g, green pepper 50g, peanut oil 50g, soy sauce, vinegar, refined salt, sugar, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, ginger and starch.
Method: (1) Wash the meat, shred it and paste it with water starch and refined salt; Peel bitter gourd and shred pepper. (2) Set the pot on fire, drain the oil, heat it to 80%, and smooth the shredded pork for later use; Leave the bottom oil in the pan, add pepper and bitter gourd, stir-fry a few times, sprinkle with salt, pour shredded pork into stir-fry, add shredded ginger, sugar, soy sauce, vinegar and monosodium glutamate, and then take out the pan and plate. This dish has appetizing, diuretic, heat-clearing and detoxicating effects.
4, raw mixed bitter gourd?
Ingredients: bitter gourd 600g, sugar, white vinegar, chives, refined salt and monosodium glutamate.
Method: (1) Peel and wash bitter gourd, cut into thin slices, sprinkle with refined salt for a while, and drain; Wash shallots and cut into powder. (2) Put the white sugar, white vinegar, refined salt and monosodium glutamate into a bowl and mix well to form a paste. (3) When eating, put the bitter gourd into a dish, add the sauce and sprinkle with chopped green onion. This dish is sweet and sour, crisp and palatable, appetizing and relieving summer heat, nourishing blood and benefiting qi.
5, dried bitter gourd
Ingredients: bitter gourd 300g, pickled red pepper, garlic, soybean oil, refined salt, monosodium glutamate and red oil.
Method: (1) Remove pedicles from bitter gourd, remove seeds, wash, cut into filaments, soak in red pepper to remove pedicles, remove seeds, cut into filaments, peel and clean garlic, and cut into fine powder. (2) Heat the pan and pour in the soybean oil. When the oil temperature reaches 70%, add refined salt and minced garlic into the pot, pour in shredded bitter gourd and shredded pepper, stir-fry until the cooked fragrant juice is dry, add monosodium glutamate to taste, and pour in red oil to serve. This dish is red and white, spicy and appetizing, nourishing blood and improving eyesight.
6, bitter gourd coriander
Ingredients: 300 grams of bitter gourd, 50 grams of coriander, 25 grams of fermented soybean, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil and spicy oil.
Method: (1) Peel bitter gourd, remove seeds, cut into filaments, marinate with refined salt, squeeze out water, and soak in cold boiled water for a few minutes; Wash coriander and cut into small pieces. (2) Put shredded bitter gourd, coriander segments, fermented soybean, refined salt and monosodium glutamate into a bowl, mix well, marinate for a while, and sprinkle sesame oil and spicy oil when eating. This dish is crisp, tender and slightly bitter, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, nourishing blood and benefiting qi.
Luffa contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, citrulline, riboflavin and other B vitamins and vitamin C, and also contains saponins contained in ginseng. It is a home-cooked vegetable in summer and autumn. It is delicious, smooth and nutritious, and has considerable medicinal value in Xianyi.
Chinese medicine believes that loofah is sweet, cool and non-toxic. It has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting bowel movement, cooling blood and detoxicating, dredging channels and collaterals, relieving summer-heat, quenching thirst, expelling wind and resolving phlegm, promoting blood circulation and milk ejection, and killing insects. It is a good health care product in summer.
Besides Luffa, flowers, skins, leaves, vines, nets, seeds and roots of Luffa can be used as medicine. Melon flowers clear heat and detoxify, and melon skin cures sores. Cucumber leaves have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, stopping bleeding and diminishing inflammation, and are used externally. Gua Teng Jin Tong is active, relieving cough and eliminating phlegm.
Gualuo can treat chest pain and breast pain caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis. Melon seeds clear away heat, moisten dryness and detoxify. Melon seeds can repel roundworms. Cucumber root disinfection and antisepsis can treat hemorrhoids and bleeding in stool. Modern medicine believes that loofah contains antiviral and antiallergic active ingredients. Because it is rich in vitamin C, it can be used to fight scurvy and prevent various vitamin C deficiency. B vitamins are beneficial to the brain health care of children and middle-aged and elderly people. The juice of towel gourd stem has the special function of keeping skin elastic, and can beautify and wrinkle.
Peel the loofah when you eat it. Can be cold, fried, baked, made into soup or juice for dietotherapy. For example, it can be washed and sliced, cooked in boiling water, mixed with sesame oil, soy sauce and vinegar, and made into cold towel gourd. Fried loofah is light and delicious, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis; Burn mushrooms and loofah to replenish qi and blood and dredge meridians; Tomato and loofah soup can clear away heat and toxic materials, eliminate irritability, and is especially suitable for eating when you are hot, thirsty and dry throat. Take a proper amount of raw loofah, wash it and juice it, and mix it with honey according to the ratio of 10: 1. Raw towel gourd juice has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.