1, melon soup should be peeled?
It's better not to peel the wax gourd soup. Because winter melon skin can relieve summer heat, strengthen spleen and promote diuresis, it is a good health food. Moreover, the decoction of winter melon skin instead of tea can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, and there are no side effects. Therefore, when cooking soup, just clean the fluff on the skin of winter melon.
2, the benefits of melon soup without peeling
The nutritional value and medicinal value of winter melon skin are very high. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the skin of winter melon is slightly cold and sweet, and the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, diuresis and detumescence are more obvious than those of winter melon meat. And pregnant women with edema drink appropriate amount of winter melon soup, which has certain effect on eliminating edema.
3. Can winter melon skin be eaten?
The skin of winter melon is edible Its minerals and trace elements such as vitamin C, vitamin B 1 and carotene are relatively high, and it contains cholesterol derivatives, triterpenoids and a variety of volatile components, which is very beneficial to human body, especially to improve the symptoms of diabetes (excessive drinking, excessive eating and excessive urine).
4. How to make melon soup?
(1) winter melon sparerib soup
Ingredients: 500g pork ribs, 600g wax gourd, 2 shallots, 5g ginger, 3g pepper, 3g cooking wine and 3g monosodium glutamate.
Practice: chop the ribs into pieces, cut the wax gourd with skin into thick pieces of about 1 cm, smash the ginger, and cut the shallots into long sections. Then put the ribs in boiling water to blanch the bleeding water, and then fish them up for later use. Then pour the water into the pot, add the ginger, onion and pepper, pour the ribs when the water boils, add the salt after boiling again, and put the wax gourd in the form of simmering for 50 minutes. Cook over medium heat for 20 minutes until the wax gourd is cooked and rotten, then remove the onion and serve in a bowl.
(2) kelp, mung bean and winter melon soup
Ingredients: 50g of kelp, 50g of mung bean, 500g of pig's tail bone, 800g of wax gourd, small pieces of dried tangerine peel/kloc-0, and appropriate amount of salt.
Practice: clean the skin of wax gourd, cut it into large pieces, clean kelp, cut it into sections, clean mung beans, soak dried tangerine peel in hot water, remove the pulp, clean the boiled pig's tail bone with clear water, and drain the water for later use. Then pour 2 liters of water into the pot, put all the ingredients into the pot together, boil for 2 hours with slow fire, and finally season with salt.
(3) Melon and crucian carp soup
Ingredients: 2 crucian carp, 450g wax gourd, 50g mung bean, 40g coix seed, 40g Euryale seed, ginger 1 piece.
Method: Wash the white skin covered with wax gourd, chop the skin into small pieces, then clean mung bean, coix seed and Euryale seed, put them together with wax gourd in a soup pot, add 3 times of water and boil over high fire. Then pour the oil into the vegetable pot, fry the crucian carp until both sides are brown, then put the crucian carp in a soup bag, pour it into the boiled winter melon soup, put 1 small piece of ginger in it to remove the fishy smell, change it to a low fire for 2 hours, and adjust the taste with salt.
5, the effect of eating winter melon skin
(1) eliminating edema
The skin of winter melon is sweet and mild, which can effectively eliminate edema. Because the content of potassium in winter melon skin is obviously higher than that of sodium, it is high in potassium and low in sodium, which can effectively eliminate edema.
If you want to treat physical weakness and edema, you can cook the skin of winter melon, red beans and appropriate amount of brown sugar until it is rotten, and you can eat beans and drink soup.
(2) Treating diabetes
Watermelon peel can also be used for the treatment of diabetes, and the symptoms of diabetes (drinking too much, eating too much and urinating too much) can be improved by insisting on drinking the soup for 3-6 months.
(3) Clearing away heat and relieving summer heat
The skin of winter melon is cool and has a good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. If you want to treat summer heat thirst and short urine, you can use the same amount of winter melon skin and watermelon skin decoction instead of drinking; If it is used to treat summer-heat dampness syndrome, it can be taken together with raw Coicis Semen, talc and flat bean curd.
(4) Clearing away heat and relieving cough
If cough is due to phlegm-heat resistance, it can be used together with heat-clearing and phlegm-resolving drugs.