Luffa has high nutritional value. Luffa contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, citrulline, riboflavin and other B vitamins, vitamin C, and also contains saponins contained in ginseng. Luffa is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, cooling blood and detoxicating, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels, expelling wind and resolving phlegm, moistening muscles and beautifying, dredging channels and promoting blood circulation.
Luffa can be used not only for cooking or soup, but also for steaming. Steamed loofah is delicious. It looks good and delicious. it wont hurt you to try it
1, steamed towel gourd with gold, silver and garlic vermicelli
Food:
Ingredients: one loofah, one garlic, ten medlar, and proper amount of vermicelli.
Accessories: a little salt and a little oil.
Exercise:
1。 Peel the loofah (preferably a loofah with uniform head and tail size), mash the garlic and soak the vermicelli until soft.
2。 Heat the rice cooker, add a little oil, add half garlic and stir-fry until golden brown, then add the other half garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, and sprinkle a little salt.
3。 Pack up and bring all the gold, silver and garlic for later use.
4。 Cut the towel gourd into long sections with an oblique knife, and dig out several melon sacs with a spoon. Don't throw away the dug bags, just steam them on a plate.
5。 Put a little chopped vermicelli in each melon pier, an appropriate amount of gold, silver and garlic, and put the rest of the vermicelli around the loofah.
6。 Sprinkle a little salt on the loofah.
7。 Add Lycium barbarum to decorate.
8。 Boil the water in the rice cooker, add the loofah and steam for about 8 minutes. If you pay attention to setting the plate, you can take another plate and set it again.
Tips:
1 among the gold, silver and garlic, the second half of the garlic can be eaten without salt, and the fried garlic can be directly mixed with the raw garlic, but the taste is a little choking, and it will be much more delicious if it is fried intermittently.
If the towel gourd pier is short, the time can be shortened. Do not steam for too long. After steaming, the loofah will wither.
Although it is a simple steamed dish, it will still make mistakes if you are not careful. Remember to pay attention.
2. Fresh Shrimp Cup with Luffa
Food:
Ingredients: 8 fresh shrimps, 1 loofah.
Accessories: a teaspoon of chopped pepper (if not spicy), soy sauce 1 teaspoon, half teaspoon of oyster sauce, a few drops of sesame oil, proper amount of sugar, a little cooking wine and a little salt.
Exercise:
1。 Prepare the ingredients you need. Peel the fresh shrimp, remove the shrimp line, and grab it evenly with a little salt and cooking wine.
2。 Peel the loofah and cut it evenly.
3。 Scoop out a part of the pulp of the loofah.
4。 Draw a small lace on the top of the towel gourd with a knife and tilt the knife.
5。 Roll up the shrimp and stuff it into the treated towel gourd cup.
6。 Do this in turn.
7。 A little chopped pepper is delicious. Don't put it unless you eat spicy food. Make a bowl of sauce with sugar, soy sauce, oyster sauce and sesame oil. Pour into the loofah bowl.
8。 Put the plate in a beautiful steam oven, preheat and steam for 5 minutes. Stew 1 min and take out.
9。 Take it out and eat it Very refreshing taste.
3. Steamed towel gourd with garlic
Food:
Ingredients: Luffa 1
Accessories: garlic 1, Fluttershy steamed fish and soy sauce 2 tbsp, sesame oil 1 tbsp.
Exercise:
1。 Chop garlic cloves into paste, be careful;
2。 Peel the loofah, cut it into equal-height sections and put it in a plate;
3。 Spread garlic paste on the loofah;
4。 After the steamer is started, put the garlic and loofah in and steam for five minutes. After five minutes, the garlic and towel gourd will be steamed.
5。 Take out, weighing, and pour with steamed fish sauce;
6。 Then pour sesame oil, so that the garlic loofah is finished.
7。 It's on the table.
Tips:
1。 The amount of garlic in this dish must be larger;
2。 It only takes five minutes to steam the loofah, which can keep the loofah green;
3。 Pour steamed fish soy sauce and sesame oil while it is hot, which makes it easier to taste; After adding steamed fish sauce, there is no need to add salt.
4. Steamed loofah with scallops
Main ingredients:
1 loofah, 20g scallop, 2 cloves garlic, 2g soy sauce, and proper amount of vegetable oil.
Exercise:
1。 Soak scallops in warm water for about 15 minutes.
2。 Wash and peel the loofah. In addition to loofah, you can also use zucchini (commonly known as hairy melon) and zucchini.
3。 Cut into small round segments about 5cm high and put them neatly on the plate.
4。 Peel garlic and cut it into minced garlic.
5。 Soaked scallops are shredded by hand. Try to tear it as thin as possible to make it easier for the baby to chew.
6。 Heat the pan with less oil, add dried Bess and fry until golden brown.
7。 Add garlic and soy sauce, stir-fry until fragrant, and turn off the heat.
8。 Fold it on the towel gourd.
9。 Steam in a steamer for about 5 minutes.
Luffa is easy to cook, so it doesn't need to be steamed for too long. Just be green. Steam for too long will shrink and affect the finished product.
10。 Fresh loofah with scallops is light and delicious, which adds a sweetness to the mouth and will make you addicted.