There are three easy ways to cook with watermelon rind: braised, stir-fried and cold.
Meat roasted watermelon rind:
Main ingredients: watermelon a few pieces, a number of pork. Seasonings: two slices of ginger, soy sauce and water (about 1:2), salt, monosodium glutamate, a little oil.
Preparation: 1, the first melon flesh cut off, close to the skin of the melon flesh to stay a little, and then scrape the thin layer of green wax epidermis. Wash the rind and cut it into matchbox-sized pieces, then evenly salt them with a little fine salt for a short while and rinse them before cooking.
2. Wash and cut small cubes of pancetta.
Operation:
1, the pot of oil is hot under the ginger, ginger began to crumple under the meat, quickly stir fry a few times in turn under the soy sauce, water. Note that the liquid level is slightly below the solid (watermelon rind will still be out of water).
2, after boiling skim the floating powder, under the watermelon rind flip flip, turn the heat to cover the lid smother. In the middle of the lid must be turned a few times to ensure that the watermelon rind coloring uniformity, to avoid a black piece of white one.
3, and so the firm melon skin becomes soft after seasoning out of the pot.
This dish does not add sugar, the other half of the watermelon rind, roughly the same practice and braised pork. Cooked watermelon rind is soft and sweet. No sugar is not added in order not to destroy the beautiful feeling of the mountain spring-like sweetness. The skin of the watermelon is worth the price of the meat, and this dish is characterized by the fact that the skin of the watermelon has a much better taste than the five-flake meat. Don't stare, I'm not exaggerating. Experience tells me that every time this dish is served, the skin of the melon is eliminated much faster than the meat.
Dried scallops fried watermelon skin:
Main ingredient: dried scallops a handful of slices of melon skin on a plate. Ingredients: a few slices of carrots, a little water starch, garlic rice ginger powder a little salt, monosodium glutamate, a little oil.
Preparation:
1, dried scallops washed and soaked in a small bowl for half a day, removed and crushed; soaked dried scallops of water to stay.
2, watermelon rind hanging skin, peeled melon flesh, oblique knife cut thin slices.
Production:
1, oil 6-7% heat, the garlic and ginger stir-fried, under the dried scallops with a few stir-fried.
2, under the carrots, watermelon rind stir fry until the melon skin begins to soften, pour in the water soaked dried scallops.
3, boiling seasoning, add water starch hook thin gravy out of the pot.
Cool watermelon skin shredded:
This dish and cold mixed with shredded potatoes, cold mixed with Buddha's hand melon is almost the same, the taste can be changed according to preference. There are two points to note:
1, first cut diagonal slices, and then change the knife into silk is better. So that some are not too tough and some are too watery.
2, the shredded melon skin should be blanched quickly and dipped in cool water after fishing.
The three dishes mentioned above are best used with thick skinned watermelon. Because the thicker melon skin moisture, easy to taste, in addition to taste good. Watermelon rind waste utilization is certainly more than these, as long as a different look at it, it will also surprise you. Summer to, watermelon full of roll. After eating watermelon rind do not throw, with a little thought, waste some effort, please your family and friends to eat some watermelon rind it. You can enjoy a cool summer with a smooth mouth and a smooth ear!
Watermelon rind shredded, placed in a deep container, salt, mix well, above the pressure of a stone (no stone on a smaller container filled with water instead), so that about half a day of marinade, to eat time to take out, with a hand squeeze out of the pickled water, add vinegar, sesame oil, a little sugar, to look good if you cut a tomato in the inside, mixing can be eaten. Such watermelon rind than fried crisp, summer eating the best.
Gourd Strip Egg Soup
Main ingredient: watermelon rind, eggs, tomatoes
Seasoning: salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), sesame oil
Making process:
1. watermelon rind peeled off the outer layer of the green skin, remove the inner layer of the red flesh, cut into thin strips.
2. Cut the tomato into slices.
3. Beat the eggs.
4. Add water to the soup pot, put the melon strips and boil, then put in the tomato slices in turn, pour in the egg, add salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil to taste.
Tips: Before pouring in the egg liquid, you can add a small amount of starch liquid in the soup, which can make the pouring in the egg liquid does not fall apart.
Cui Pei Ribbon
Main ingredient: watermelon rind, tenderloin
Seasoning: egg white, cooking wine, salt, wet starch
Making process:
1. Peel the fresh watermelon rind, cut it into julienne strips, add a little salt and mix well, marinate for a few moments and then squeeze out the salt water.
2. Tenderloin cut into thin shreds, put into a bowl, add wine, salt, egg white, wet starch and mix and batter.
3. frying pan into the oil, medium heat, the oil burned to 60% of the heat, the next into the shredded meat scattered, to be white when the shredded meat fish out of the oil.
4. original pot of oil with a small amount of broth to boil, add the watermelon rind and shredded meat upside down a few times, with the wet starch thickening pot can be.
Tips: Before frying the shredded pork in the wok, use egg white, wet starch, cooking wine and salt to glaze the meat, so that the fried shredded pork can maintain a fresh and tender texture.
Orange Juice Lotus Root Watermelon Peel
Main Ingredients: Lotus Root, Watermelon Peel
Seasoning: Orange Juice, Salt, Sugar
Production Process:
1. Peel off the outer layer of the green skin of the watermelon peel, remove the inner layer of the red pith, and then cut into strips.
2. Wash the lotus root and scrape off the outer skin, cut into slices and soak in a basin of cool water.
3. Blanch the melon strips and lotus root slices in boiling water, and drain them.
4. In the melon strips, lotus root slices, add the appropriate amount of orange juice, salt, sugar and mix well, the color is light yellow, can be served on a plate.
Tips: watermelon rind and lotus root do not blanch at the same time, because the texture is not the same, lotus root blanched, watermelon rind is easy to blanch soft.
Watermelon rind fried beans
Main ingredients: watermelon rind, beans
Seasoning: salt, pepper
Production process:
1. watermelon rind peeled off the outer layer of hard skin and the inner layer of red pith and then cut into cubes, marinated for a few moments with a little salt.
2. Wash the beans, put them into a cooking pot, add pepper, salt and cook, then take out and drain the water and set aside.
3. Pour off the water from the pickled melon.
4. frying pan into the oil, until the oil boiled to 80% hot, under the melon diced smooth frying, and then into the cooked soybeans with smooth frying, according to personal taste to add sour, sweet, spicy and other seasonings.
Tips: When cooking the beans, cut off the sharp corners of the ends, so that the beans are more likely to be flavored
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