Pumpkin is a very common vegetable in daily life, with high nutritional value. It contains many elements needed by human body, such as a lot of zinc, which is beneficial to the health of skin and nails, and also contains antioxidant β carotene, which plays a role in protecting eyes and heart. Eating more pumpkins is of great benefit to human body. How to steam pumpkins to taste good? Here are some steaming methods for pumpkins.

First, steamed eggs with pumpkin

Ingredients: one pumpkin, five eggs, and two ounces of sugar. The method is as follows: first, wash the pumpkin, cut the top 1/3, keep the top as a cover, and take out the pulp and seeds of the remaining pumpkin with a spoon, then clean the inside, put it in a pot and steam it over medium heat until it is cooked to eight or nine minutes, then take it out and cease fire. Beat the eggs, add the prepared white sugar and cold boiled water and mix well. Pour the stirred egg liquid into the steamed pumpkin cup, seal the pumpkin cup with plastic wrap, cover the pumpkin cover, steam again in the pot, and steam for 8-10 minutes with high fire.

Second, steamed pumpkin meat with flour.

Ingredients: half a catty of chicken wings, half a pumpkin, cooking wine, ginger powder, white pepper, soy sauce, starch, oyster sauce, lobster sauce, steamed pork rice noodles. Practice: firstly, remove the bones from the chicken wings and cut them into small pieces. Then, add cooking wine, ginger powder, white pepper, soy sauce, starch, oyster sauce, lobster sauce and steamed pork rice noodles in turn, and stir well for later use. Cut the pumpkin into pieces, add lobster sauce, chilli sauce and steamed pork rice noodles in turn, and mix well for later use. Then put the mixed chicken wings and pumpkin pieces in the same big bowl, mix well, put them in a small steamer, steam for 25 minutes on medium heat and serve.

Third, steamed tender pumpkins.

Prepare half a tender pumpkin, a bowl of chicken broth, salt, ginger slices and onion slices. A variety of ingredients can be added according to personal taste. Practice: Slice the ginger, cut the onion into sections, cut the tender pumpkin into thick strips and put it in a soup bowl, then add the sliced raw ginger, onion and appropriate amount of salt, pour the prepared broth of the old hen, and steam it in a pressure cooker for about 10 minute.

Fourth, steamed pumpkin with honey

Ingredients: half a pumpkin, five spoonfuls of honey, raisins and red dates. Practice: Peel the pumpkin, remove the pulp and clean it for later use. Pay attention to cutting it into diamonds and various favorite shapes. Put the cut pumpkin in a clean flat-bottom plate, cut the red dates into corresponding shreds or small pieces according to the number of pieces of pumpkin, put the cut red dates on the pumpkin, put the small pieces in the middle of the pumpkin, and then add a proper amount of raisins to decorate it. Then steam it in the pot for 15 to 20 minutes. Master the heat yourself, generally steam it with medium heat, steam it and pour a proper amount of honey on it. Steamed pumpkin with sweet and waxy honey will be ready.

Pumpkin is rich in nutrition, which can promote people's growth and development, and also has the effects of diuresis, defecation and lowering blood sugar. You can refer to the above steaming methods when eating pumpkin, and you can make a single and delicious pumpkin dish.