First of all, mothers should prepare ingredients: 1 cucumber, 2 garlic and 3 millet peppers. In addition, you need to prepare ingredients: salt, sesame oil, sugar, white vinegar and soy sauce.
Secondly, mothers will wash the bought cucumbers and cut them into shreds. Then add salt and white vinegar to marinate. After pickling cucumber, chop garlic and millet pepper, add sesame oil, salt, white vinegar and soy sauce and stir well. After this step, boil the sesame oil in a hot pot, and then pour the hot oil on the mixed seasoning.
Finally, the pickled shredded cucumber is drained of excess water and poured with seasoning.
How to make shredded cucumber delicious?
Making assorted cucumbers is very simple. As long as the ingredients are prepared, you can basically start cooking. But to make it delicious, mothers need to spend some time and remember some skills of mixing shredded cucumber. Only in this way can we make delicious shredded cucumber.
1, choose fresh cucumber, which is the key step to mix shredded cucumber. If you choose an older cucumber, it will lose its original crispness. So when mom picks cucumbers, it's best to pick those cucumbers that feel uneven, which are relatively fresh.
2, it is best to cut the cucumber into silk, first add salt and white vinegar to marinate, which will help the cucumber to taste more. If there is no pickled cucumber, it may be tasteless.
3. It is best to pickle the shredded cucumber to remove excess water, and then pour the seasoning. This step is also very important. If excess water is not removed, the taste of cucumber will be affected, and cucumber will lose its crispness if it is soaked for too long.
How to choose cucumber
Now we know that the key step to make a good cucumber is to choose fresh cucumber, so how to choose fresh cucumber to make shredded cucumber? The method is not without. Mothers will judge whether cucumbers are fresh as long as they study patiently.
So in order to help mothers make real shredded cucumbers, three methods of selecting cucumbers are introduced:
1, if it is hard and uniform in thickness, it is fresh cucumber. Because cucumber is too thick, it is easy to have seeds, while cucumber is too thin, it is immature and bitter. In addition, if the color of cucumber is too light, it means that the lack of light affects the growth of cucumber.
2, the color is shiny, the fruit surface is not frosted, and there is no yellow line at the top of the fruit. This cucumber will be better.
3. In addition to judging whether the cucumber is fresh from the shape and color, mothers can also try to touch the cucumber, which will be fresher if there is a bump.
What is the nutritional value of shredded cucumber?
Since you can pick cucumbers, the key step of mixing shredded cucumbers is completed. In other words, mothers can start trying to make shredded cucumber. However, some mothers may want to know more about the nutritional value of shredded cucumber. Because eating a food is not only delicious, but also attracted by its nutrition.
So, what nutrition does shredded cucumber have? Why do some mothers choose it as a snack? This is about to introduce the nutritional value of shredded cucumber:
1. Cucumber has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, relieving exterior syndrome and detoxicating, diminishing inflammation, moistening lung and promoting fluid production, moistening dryness and regulating stomach, clearing heat and dispersing blood. Therefore, when eating cucumbers, it helps to help mothers relieve the heat.
2. Cucumber can also help digestion, clear liver, benefit gallbladder and soothe the nerves. So eating some cucumbers will still promote digestion.
3, conducive to beauty and weight loss, because cucumber is conducive to gastrointestinal digestion.
4, vinegar has the function of beauty, eating some cucumber with vinegar will have the function of beauty beauty.
What should I pay attention to when eating shredded cucumber?
Even though shredded cucumber is delicious and nutritious, it is not recommended for mothers to cook it often. Because cucumber is a cold food after all, and it is often cold, which will not be conducive to the balance of nutrition. In addition, mothers need to know something about eating assorted cucumbers:
1, when eating shredded cucumber, don't eat peanuts, or mix peanuts and cucumbers, because this combination can easily cause diarrhea.
2, people with a bad stomach had better not eat or eat less, because if such people eat too much, it will increase the burden on the stomach, thus affecting digestion.
3, cucumber is best not to match celery, because the combination of the two will affect the absorption of vitamin C.
4. People with weak spleen and stomach should eat as little as possible. After all, cucumber is cool, so it will affect its nutrient absorption.