Fruit and vegetable small file alias: hairy melon
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Flowering and fruiting period: summer and autumn
Nutritional components: vitamins, trace elements, etc.
Tropism of nature and taste: flat nature, sweet taste, at night, spleen meridian
The health care function of Jiegua is to clear away heat and relieve summer heat: Jiegua is flat and slightly sweet, which can relieve summer heat.
Nourishing the liver and protecting the kidney: After eating Chieh-gua, the urine volume of human body will increase, which can reduce the kidney damage caused by the increase of blood mercury content and significantly reduce the serum creatinine content, thus playing the role of nourishing and protecting the liver.
Dicogua has the function of diuresis and detumescence, which is especially suitable for edema patients.
How to choose festival melons When choosing festival melons, it is better to choose fluffy, light green and fleshy melons. In addition, in the shape of fruit, Chieh-gua is from short cylinder to long cylinder, and the color of peel is from dark green, green to yellow-green, with various varieties and styles. When buying, you should pay attention to the fact that melons are hairy and shiny, which is the fresh melon.
How to eat the most nutritious food
Both young and old melons can be eaten directly, which is a kind of melon with rich nutrition and delicious taste. At the same time, as an edible fruit and vegetable, Jiegua can also be used as a dish, and of course it can also be used as a tea for relieving summer heat. It is a kind of melon suitable for cooking and making soup. Its melon meat is tender, smooth and light, suitable for cooking. Usually, melons with fresh and wet petals are regarded as high-grade vegetables.
Suitable for people: generally everyone can eat it, which is more suitable for patients with kidney disease, diabetes and obesity.
Not suitable for people: people with spleen deficiency and stomach cold are not suitable.
Appropriate collocation: Zucchini and shrimp can enhance the body's resistance.
Not suitable for collocation: basically no taboo.
Before eating, it is suggested that although the melon can be fried, boiled and made into soup, the meat quality of the tender melon is smoother and lighter, so if fried with the melon, it is better to use the tender melon.
How to store the freshest?
If the quantity is large, you can wrap the zucchini separately with paper, and then put it in a soaking box or carton for preservation; If the quantity is small, it can be wrapped in plastic wrap and stored in the refrigerator.
Gourmet link zucchini salted egg soup
Ingredients: 3 tender zucchini, 2 raw salted eggs, 1/4 teaspoons of salt, 2 tablespoons of peanut oil and 8 bowls of clear water.
Practice: (1) Cucurbita pepo is scraped, washed and cut into pieces. (2) Heat the casserole, stir-fry the zucchini with oil and salt, and pour the water into the casserole for about half an hour. (3) Open the salted eggs in the soup and cook for 15 minutes.
Efficacy: appetizing, lung strengthening, diuretic and detumescence.
Braised zucchini
Ingredients: pumpkin 700g, fresh mushroom 50g, pork100g, shrimp skin 50g, ginger 3g, garlic 5g, salt10g, monosodium glutamate 2g, cooking wine15ml, soy sauce 25ml and lard 75g.
Practice: (1) Peel, wash and cut into pieces, fry in a boiling oil pan until brown, and take out. (2) removing pedicels from mushrooms, cleaning and cutting into strips; Wash and shred pork. (3) Put oil in the pan, heat it, put ginger and garlic in the pan, stir-fry pork and shrimp for a while, add water, add zucchini, mushrooms, salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine and soy sauce, and mix well to serve.
Efficacy: nourishing blood and benefiting qi, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.
Small remedies for fruits and vegetables 1 250g of cold loach, 500g of zucchini, ginger slices and salt. Add a proper amount of water to the pot, put the processed loach, washed zucchini and ginger slices into the pot, cook into soup, and season with salt.
Prescription 2 removes heat, removing 600 grams of labor, 50 grams of plum beans, 500 grams of chicken feet, 300 grams of pig bones and 3 slices of ginger. Scrape the zucchini, wash it, cut it into pieces, wash the plum beans, soak the hair, wash the chicken feet and broken bones, put them in a pot with ginger, add 2500 ml of water, and after the fire boils, switch to low fire for 2 hours and add appropriate amount of salt. Can be shared by 3~4 people.