Pumpkin is a common vegetable. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that pumpkin is warm and sweet, enters the spleen and stomach meridian, and has the effects of tonifying the middle energizer, relieving inflammation and pain, diuresis and beautifying. When selecting, it is better to have neat appearance, golden skin and no insect bites. In fact, as long as the skin is scrubbed clean and the pumpkin is eaten with skin, the nutritional value is higher! Hard cutting pumpkin skin is more difficult. Today, Bian Xiao will share a small coup to make peeling and dicing easy!

Peeling related tools kitchen knife, rice cooker, basin, spoon, microwave oven, peeler.

Peeling method 1. Block stripping method

Wash the pumpkin, divide the pumpkin in two, take out all the pulp of the pumpkin and wash it again. Cut the washed pumpkin into small pieces with a knife, not too small. Cut the pumpkin into small pieces and peel it off the chopping board with a knife. It's simple.

2. Liquid immersion method

Put the whole pumpkin into a pot or basin, pour boiling water on the pumpkin from the top until it is submerged, and cover it for 2 minutes. Clean the pumpkin, steam it in a pot, and then dig it out directly with a spoon or a knife, so that only one piece is left, which is super simple.

3. Steaming method

Clean the whole pumpkin and put it in the electric stove. Add a little water to the outer pot (about 1/4 cups). Steam for 3 ~ 5 minutes. Then dig out the pumpkin directly with a spoon or knife, so that there is only one south skin left, which is very simple.

4. Microwave method

Poke a few holes in the pumpkin surface with a fork and heat it in the microwave oven for 3 ~ 5 minutes. Be sure to heat it several times. Don't heat it for too long at a time, lest the pumpkin explode in the microwave oven! ! ! If it is normal for the epidermis to harden after initial heating, microwave it for another 30 seconds to 1 minute and take it out.

5. Stripping method

Cut the pumpkin down from the top center with a knife (some pumpkins are hard, so you can use a rubber hammer to beat the two ends of the knife and slowly push the knife down) or prepare a peeler to peel the pumpkin by peeling potatoes (the process is difficult and it is not recommended to try).

Tips Use kitchen knives, rice cookers and microwave ovens under the supervision of adults.