Winter melon is a vegetable that we often eat. Many people like to cook winter melon with meat, and some people like to use it to make soup. Winter melon soup is not only delicious, but also has relatively high nutritional value. The skin is relatively thick, so generally everyone will remove the skin before cooking winter melon. Do you need to peel the winter melon when making soup? Do you need to peel winter melon when making soup?

1. Do you need to peel the winter melon when making soup?

It is better not to peel the winter melon when making soup. Because winter melon peel can relieve heat, strengthen the spleen and remove dampness, it is a good health food. Moreover, drinking winter melon peel decoction instead of tea can be a good diuretic and reduce swelling without any side effects. So when making soup, just clean the fuzz on the winter melon skin.

2. The benefits of making winter melon soup without peeling it

The nutritional value and medicinal value of winter melon peel are very high. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the skin of winter melon is slightly cold in nature and has a sweet taste. Its effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, diuresis and reducing swelling are more significant than those of winter melon flesh. Moreover, pregnant women with edema drink an appropriate amount of winter melon soup, which has a certain effect on eliminating edema.

3. Can winter melon rind be eaten?

Winter melon rind is edible. It is relatively high in minerals and trace elements such as vitamin C, vitamin B1, carotene, and contains cholesterol derivatives, triterpenoids and a variety of volatile components. Eating it is of great benefit to the human body, especially for improving health. The "three excesses" (excessive drinking, excessive eating, and excessive urination) symptoms of diabetic patients are very beneficial.

4. How to make winter melon soup

(1) Winter melon and pork ribs soup

Ingredients: 500 grams of pork ribs, 600 grams of winter melon, 2 green onions, old ginger 5 grams, 3 grams of Sichuan peppercorns, 3 grams of cooking wine, 3 grams of MSG

Method: Chop the ribs into pieces, cut the winter melon with the skin into about 1 cm thick slices, smash the ginger, and cut the green onions into long sections. Then put the ribs into boiling water to blanch the blood, then pick them up and set aside. Pour the water into the pot again, add ginger cubes, green onion segments, and Sichuan peppercorns. After the water boils, pour the ribs in. When it boils again, add the salt. Simmer on low heat for 50 minutes and add the winter melon cubes. . Then switch to medium heat and cook for 20 minutes, until the winter melon is cooked and tender, then remove the green onions and serve in a bowl.

(2) Kelp, Mung Bean and Winter Melon Soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of kelp, 50 grams of mung beans, 500 grams of pig tail bones, 800 grams of winter melon, 1 small piece of tangerine peel, appropriate amount of salt

Method: Peel and peel the winter melon, clean it and cut it into large pieces. Wash the kelp and cut it into sections. Wash the mung beans. Soak the tangerine peel in hot water and remove the flesh. Wash it with clean water and blanch it. Pork tail bones, drain and set aside. Then pour 2 liters of water into the pot, put all the ingredients into the pot together, boil until it boils and simmer for 2 hours, then add salt to taste.

(3) Winter melon and crucian carp soup

Ingredients: 2 crucian carps, 450 grams of winter melon, 50 grams of mung beans, 40 grams of barley, 40 grams of gorgon seeds, 1 piece of ginger

< p>Method: Wash the white skin of the winter melon, chop the skin into small pieces, clean the mung beans, barley and gorgon seeds, put them into the soup pot with the winter melon, add 3 times the water and bring to a boil over high heat. Then pour the oil into the vegetable pot, fry the crucian carp until both sides are browned, then use a soup bag to hold the crucian carp, pour it into the boiled winter melon soup, put 1 small piece of ginger in to remove the fishy smell, and change it to small After simmering for 2 hours, just season it with salt.

5. The effect of eating winter melon peel

(1) Eliminate edema

Winter melon peel is sweet in taste and has relatively mild medicinal properties, which can effectively eliminate edema. Because the potassium content in winter melon peel is significantly higher than the sodium content, it is a high-potassium and low-sodium type, which can effectively eliminate edema.

If you want to treat physical weakness and edema, you can boil winter melon peel, adzuki beans, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar until very soft, then eat the beans and drink the soup.

(2) Treatment of diabetes

Winter melon peel can also be used to treat diabetes. The symptoms of diabetes patients (eating too much, drinking too much, and urinating too much) can be treated by drinking more Winter melon peel soup will improve the condition after 3-6 months.

(3) Clearing away heat and relieving summer heat

Winter melon peel is cool in nature and has a good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. If you are thirsty due to summer heat and have short and red urine, you can drink the same amount of winter melon rind or watermelon rind decoction in water instead; if you are treating summer-dampness syndrome, you can take it with coix seed, talc, lentil flowers, etc.

(4) Clear away heat and relieve cough

If you have a cough caused by phlegm-heat internal obstruction, you can use it together with heat-clearing and phlegm-resolving medicine.