There are many ways to eat Chongming pumpkin. The most common one is cold salad. It can also be mixed with shredded jellyfish, shredded radish, lettuce, etc. They are all cold dishes at banquets; shredded pumpkin can also be made into soup. , peel and slice tender pumpkin and stir-fry with mushrooms, bamboo shoots and meat slices. It can also be dried, quick-frozen, salted, canned and exported.
How to make cold Chongming pumpkin?
Ingredients: half a Chongming pumpkin, a small pepper, two cloves of garlic, 20 peppercorns, half a dried chili, and a little balsamic vinegar , a little salt, a little sesame oil.
1. Prepare ingredients.
2. Remove the seeds from the pumpkin, cut off the outer skin, and heat it whole in water. As the water boils, peel it with chopsticks and it will magically turn into filaments. While peeling, put the cooked food into a bowl. Don't blanch it for too long, but it should have a crispy texture.
3. Pinch off the water from the prepared pumpkin shreds with your hands. You don’t need to hold it too dry when you mix it and eat it, as long as there is no excess water.
4. Add minced garlic, shredded pepper, salt, vinegar and sesame oil. Then pour hot oil with fried peppercorns and dried chili peppers.
5. Stir evenly and serve.
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The value of Chongming pumpkin
The flesh of Chongming pumpkin is golden yellow and can be naturally formed into silk. , the melon silk and the melon silk are connected by a layer of parenchyma cells. After the melon meat is steamed, salted or frozen, the parenchyma cells connected between the melon shreds rupture and disintegrate, and separate into noodle-like melon shreds. The silk formation rate is more than 30%. The melon shreds are golden in color, fragrant and delicious. More brittle.
Pumpkin is rich in protein, vitamins, carbohydrates and 18 kinds of amino acids. It has the effects of replenishing qi, quenching thirst, strengthening the spleen and clearing fire. What’s even more peculiar is that it also contains trigonelline, which is not found in other vegetables and fruits, and has anti-cancer effects. Pumpkin contains a variety of amino acids, which have good curative effects on elderly patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease, and obesity.
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