Since ancient times, wax gourd has been people's favorite summer food and medicine. It is obviously ripe in summer, but why is it called "wax gourd" instead of "summer melon"? This is because, when the wax gourd is ripe, it is covered with a layer of frost, which looks like winter snow falling on it. Summer heat is very pleasing to the eye, so it is named "winter melon".
So do you know the nutritional value of wax gourd?
Wax gourd is rich in protein, sugar and a small amount of minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron, as well as nutrients such as multivitamins. It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, reducing swelling and detoxifying, and also has good medicinal value for obesity, nephropathy and edema.
Eat winter melon in summer to lose weight. I have compiled 10 kinds of winter melon practices, which are so delicious that you can't put chopsticks down!
Vegetarian roasted auricularia auricula and wax gourd
-Materials-
350g of wax gourd, 0/0g of dried auricularia auricula/kloc-0, 0g of medlar/kloc-0, proper amount of rapeseed oil, proper amount of salt and water starch 1 spoon.
-How-
1. Prepare the ingredients, and soak the fungus in advance.
2. Peel and seed the wax gourd and cut it into slightly thick slices.
3. Cut auricularia into wide shreds and soak Lycium barbarum in water for 5 minutes.
4. Add small pressed rapeseed oil to the pan, heat it, add wax gourd and stir-fry until it is soft.
5. Add fungus. If the pot is dry, add a little water.
6. After all the ingredients are fried, add Lycium barbarum and a little salt to taste.
7. Sprinkle with water starch and stir fry until the soup is bright.
Home-cooked stewed winter melon
-Materials-
450g of white gourd, half a spoonful of salt, one spoonful of vegetarian oyster sauce, and proper amount of fruit and vegetable powder.
-How-
1. Wash the wax gourd, peel it, cut it into thick slices.
2. Add the right amount of oil to the wok, pour in the wax gourd and stir fry.
3. Stir-fry the wax gourd for a while and add a spoonful of oyster sauce.
4. add some water, cover it, and simmer until the wax gourd is cooked.
5. Add some salt and fruit and vegetable powder to taste.
Fried winter melon with edamame
-Materials-
500g of wax gourd, 0/00g of edamame/kloc, proper amount of oil, proper amount of salt and proper amount of fruit and vegetable powder.
-How-
1. Wash edamame, peel wax gourd, remove seeds, wash and cut into pieces.
2. Heat the oil pan and stir-fry the edamame for 5 minutes.
Step 3 stir-fry the wax gourd
4. Stir-fry with salt and water and cook thoroughly.
5. After the melon is cooked, add a little fruit and vegetable powder and stir well.
Fresh vegetable roll of wax gourd
-Materials-
Wax gourd 1 small piece, 3 auricularia auricula, one piece of spiced dried bean curd, half a carrot, one spoon of sauce, fruit and vegetable powder 1g, half a teaspoon of salt and half a teaspoon of sesame oil.
-How-
1. Slice wax gourd, the thinner, the more beautiful ~ too thick to roll ~
2. Cover with boiling water for two minutes, remove and soak in cold water.
3. Chop fungus, carrot and dried bean curd, pour some sesame oil and mix well.
4. Put the stuffing aside, and the wax gourd rolls the stuffing from one end.
5. Roll, steam in the pan 10 minute.
6. a spoonful of soy sauce, half a spoonful of sesame oil and a little bit of vegetable and fruit powder are mixed into sauce.
7. Put the plate out of the pot ~ pour the sauce on it.
Vegetarian oyster sauce, winter melon and broccoli
-Materials-
Half a broccoli, wax gourd 1 piece, vegetarian oyster sauce 1 tablespoon, proper amount of salt, a little starch and a little ginger.
-How-
1. Broccoli break small flowers, wash, blanch and then cool.
2. Peel and slice the wax gourd.
3. Heat the oil in the pot, add ginger and saute.
4. Add wax gourd slices and stir fry for about two minutes.
5. Add vegetarian oyster sauce and stir well.
6. Add a proper amount of water and cook for two or three minutes. Wax gourd is easy to cook.
7. Add broccoli, add salt and stir fry a few times.
8. Add water and starch to thicken the pan.
Orange juice wax gourd
-Materials-
200g wax gourd, 200ml orange juice and half a teaspoon of salt.
-How-
1. Peel the wax gourd, wash it and cut it into pieces.
2. Boil a pot of clear water, add a little salt after boiling, add the chopped wax gourd, cook for about 1 min until the wax gourd meat becomes transparent, scoop it up and stir it in ice water, and then take it out after cooling;
3. Pour orange juice into the bowl, cover it with plastic wrap, put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour, then take it out and serve.
Tomato, Flammulina velutipes and Winter Melon Soup
-Materials-
500g of wax gourd, tomato 1 piece, Flammulina velutipes 1 small handful, and appropriate amount of salted fruit and vegetable powder.
-How-
1. Remove the root of Flammulina velutipes, cut it from the middle and wash it with boiling water!
2. Wash and cut into pieces, peel and wash the melon and cut into pieces!
3. Take the oil pan, add the chopped tomatoes and stir fry!
4. When the tomatoes are fried, add a small bowl of pure water!
5. Add the cleaned wax gourd and Flammulina velutipes!
6. Add salt, fruit and vegetable powder according to personal taste, and simmer for 6 minutes!
7. Serve ~ sour and appetizing!
Winter melon lotus seed soup
-Materials-
250g of wax gourd, 50g of dried lotus seeds, fragrant leaves 1 tablet, and proper amount of salt.
-How-
1. Prepare ingredients and soak lotus seeds in advance.
2. Peel the wax gourd, cut it into small dices, put it in the pot, add lotus seeds and fragrant leaves together, add appropriate amount of water, boil it, then turn to low heat and stew for 40 minutes.
3. Then add some salt to taste and mix well.
Winter melon bean curd soup
-Materials-
Tofu 150g, wax gourd 260g, lotus seed 25g, Pleurotus ostreatus 30g, salt, olive oil 10ml.
-How-
1. Pleurotus ostreatus and lotus seeds are soaked for 2 hours in advance.
2. Peel and cut the wax gourd.
3. Put all the ingredients into the electric pressure cooker.
4. Select the "Quick Soup" button to finish the operation, and then add salt and olive oil.
Osmanthus and winter melon tea
-Materials-
White gourd1000g, brown sugar120g, rock sugar120g, and appropriate amount of osmanthus fragrans.
-How-
1. Wash and dice wax gourd, and peel and pulp of wax gourd do not need to be removed.
2. Add brown sugar and mix well.
3. Let it stand for 40 minutes to let the wax gourd come out in large quantities.
4. Add rock sugar.
5. The big fire boils, and the small fire cooks slowly.
6. Boil until the soup is thick, about 2 hours or more.
7. Sift the melon juice after cooling.
8. Keep it in the refrigerator, add water when you want to drink, and then sprinkle with osmanthus.
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