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Bitter melon smells bitter, non-toxic, cold, into the heart, liver, spleen, lung meridian; has a clear heat to dispel summer heat, bright eyes and detoxification, diuretic cool blood, relieving labor and clearing the heart, benefiting the efficacy of the qi and yang; the main treatment of heatstroke, summer fever and thirst, summer boils, prickly heat too much, red eyes and swollen, carbuncle and poison, burns, and oliguria, and other diseases.
Beauty.
Bitter melon nourishes fair skin and also calms and moisturizes the skin, especially in the summer when it is easy to be irritable and hot, applying slices of bitter melon that have been iced can immediately relieve the skin from irritation.
Anti-acne.
Bitter melon is also known as Laigua, Jin (Golden) Lychee, Laigua grapes, Laigua toadstools, red girl, Lianggua, Junzi vegetable. Bitter melon is native to eastern India, about the beginning of the Ming Dynasty spread to the south of China. Bitter melon belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family and it is an annual trailing plant. Its stems, leaves, flowers and fruits look peculiar and can be cultivated as ornamental plants.
How to eat bitter melon
Bitter melon, is a popular summer and fall fruit dishes. It is not only nutritious, but also has good health functions. Folk with bitter melon with round-grained rice, sugar, boiled into bitter melon porridge has clear heat, clear mind and detoxification effect, can cure heat pain and thirst, heat stroke fever, influenza, dysentery, red eye pain and so on. Bitter melon with lean meat cooked into bitter melon soup has a heat relief, bright eyes to remove the role of poison, applicable to heat and thirst, prickly heat, conjunctivitis and other diseases. Stewed chicken wings with bitter melon, add yellow wine, ginger, soy sauce, sugar, salt to taste, have a clear liver and eyesight, tonifying the kidneys and moistening the spleen, relieve heat and remove the annoyance and other effects. Juice made from green bitter gourd is also effective in clearing heat and removing toxins, tonifying the kidneys and moistening the spleen after drinking. With the green bitter melon bubble or decoction into a herbal tea, drink can be clear summer spirit, in addition to thirst.
Bitter gourd practices
Bitter gourd eating methods, stir-fry, dry stir-fry, soup, cold, juice, and each has its own unique flavor. Bitter melon with more ways to do dishes, generally to fried food. There are many famous bitter gourd dishes around China, such as fried bitter gourd with green pepper, bitter gourd with roast pork, bitter gourd with soy sauce, bitter gourd with beef, etc., all of which are characterized by color, aroma and freshness. The most common way to eat is to fry with eggs, which has the magical effect of transforming bitterness into freshness.
? Cold Bitter Melon
Ingredients:
Bitter Melon, Red Pepper, Chicken Essence , Sesame Oil , Salt , Vinegar
Method:
(1) Bitter Melon put in water to soak, and then use a brush to brush the surface clean.
(2) Split the bitter melon in half, use a spoon to scrape the flesh part of the melon, try to scrape the inside white part clean. (3) Cut into thin slices, sprinkle with a spoonful of salt, grasp and pinch evenly with your hands, and let stand for about 10 minutes. Wash the red peppers and cut them into julienne strips.
Boil water in a pot, pour in the salted bitter melon and cook for half a minute.
(3) Prepare a pot of ice water, bitter melon blanch good fishing with cool water rinse cooling, and then immediately soaked in ice water.
(4) five minutes after the bitter melon drained, put red pepper, a little salt, chicken essence, white vinegar and sesame oil and mix well.
Tips
(1) If you want to use vinegar, don't use aged vinegar and balsamic vinegar and so on, the color of the bitter gourd will not be clean, and the color of the bitter gourd will be green with white vinegar. Of course, if you don't like vinegar, you can leave it out.
(2) The process of blanching is not too long, otherwise the bitter melon is soft and not crisp.
(3) Soak in ice water to make the bitter melon taste more crisp.
Scrambled Eggs with Bitter Gourd
Ingredients: 2 bitter gourd, 4 eggs
Directions:
(1) Bitter gourd soaked in water for 10 minutes, wash and spare.
(2) 4 eggs into a small pot spare.
(3) Scoop out the seeds of the bitter melon. Cut thin slices and mix well with 1 tsp salt.
(4) Heat the oil in a pan and stir-fry the bitter melon until it changes color.
(5) Pour in a little oil, pour in 4 eggs and turn the pan along the side of the pan.
(6) Break up the egg yolks and fry until golden brown on both sides.
Bitter Melon Stir-Fry
Ingredients:
Bitter Melon, Tenderloin, Oil, Salt, Cooking Wine, Pepper, Chicken Essence, Chopped Green Onion
Method:
(1) Prepare Bitter Melon and Tenderloin,
(2) Slice the Pork Tenderloin, and glaze it. Wash the bitter melon and remove the flesh, cut into diagonal pieces, and chop the green onion.
(3) pot of water, add salt and a few drops of cooking oil to boil, under the bitter melon blanching.
(4) Blanch the bitter melon directly into the ice water.
(5) In a separate pan, add oil, add chopped green onion and sauté until fragrant. Sauté the sliced meat until the meat turns color and breaks. Cook the wine and add pepper and stir fry evenly. Add blanched bitter melon and stir fry.
(6) Stir fry evenly and add salt and chicken seasoning can be.
Note
(a) how to pick the bitter melon
How to pick the bitter melon, in order to make the dish more delicious, this selection is to have the knack:
Look at the skin. The larger and fuller the particles of the skin of the bitter melon, the clearer the grain, the more tender the flesh, thick, slightly less bitter; if the particles are small, dense and irregularly arranged, it means that its flesh is relatively thin, bitter flavor is greater.
Pick the shape. If the shape of the bitter melon like the shape of a grain of rice, two pointed, melon body is relatively straight, it means that the quality of this bitter melon is relatively good.
Identify the color. Fresh bitter melon color is bright green, if the color is yellow, it shows that the bitter melon has been old, the flesh is not crisp.
Weight. A single bitter melon weighing around 500 grams is best, too light or too heavy is not good.
(2) Suitable for people
Bitter melon can be consumed by the general public.
Bitter melon is suitable for people
People who are overnourished and often consume greasy food due to socializing.
Beauty lovers, women who emphasize on body shape and want to have smooth and elastic skin.
The working class, students, and women who are prone to fatigue due to low physical activity.
Suitable for people with diabetes, cancer, prickly heat;
Thirsty or heatstroke with fever, thirst induced drinking. Red and white dysentery. Red eye pain, carbuncle and poison, malignant sores.
(C) contraindications
Bitter melon cool, cold spleen and stomach should not be eaten.
In addition, according to animal experiments, pregnant rats infused with bitter melon pulp juice caused uterine bleeding, and died in a few hours, so pregnant women should not eat bitter melon.
In addition, there are said to eat bitter food should not be excessive, excessive easy to cause nausea, vomiting and so on. Bitter melon is cool, easy to eat more injuries to the spleen and stomach, so the spleen and stomach weak people should eat less bitter melon. In addition, the bitter melon contains quinine, will stimulate the uterus contraction, cause miscarriage, pregnant women should also be cautious of eating bitter melon.
(4) Bitter melon can not bitter
Summer is here, eat bitter melon (cold melon) can reduce inflammation and heat, clear mind and eyesight, do not like to eat bitter "you can also go to the bitter taste and then eat it Oh. Bitter melon to the bitter four tricks:
fire fry: the use of high-fire frying so that the juice in the bitter melon quickly distributed.
Salt water: brake out the juice of the bitter melon, and squeeze dry before cooking.
Chill: Put the slices in ice water for a while before taking them out.
High Temperature Bitterness Removal: Boil the slices of bitter melon in boiling water for a while before cooking.
(E) Bitter melon weight loss method should pay attention to matters
Bitter melon is something cold in nature, it is recommended not to eat after meals. At the same time, during eating bitter melon to lose weight, it is recommended not to drink tea, no matter what weight loss tea is best. Because when eating bitter melon weight loss, the stomach and intestines would have been very tired, if then drink these tea to clear the stomach will cause some damage to the stomach. Healthy weight loss is the most important, the general stomach is not good people are not recommended to eat raw bitter melon to lose weight.
After eating bitter melon to lose weight, you will find that your bowel movements will definitely become smoother and smoother. But if there is serious diarrhea, it is because your stomach and intestines can not resist, it is recommended that you eat less bitter melon or stop for a period of time.
It is normal to feel thirsty after eating bitter melon. Because water is an important carrier of fat decomposition, if you can feel thirsty, it means that your fat needs water to decompose Oh. So, don't worry about whether there is something wrong with feeling thirsty after eating bitter melon!
Bitter melon weight loss can not see immediate results Oh. Weight loss should always be a process, the first is to eliminate water retention, remove the fat in the intestine. This is done, many people a time is not see the effect of weight loss, this time do not be discouraged, oh, and then adhere to a period of time the effect is very obvious, the fat will be significantly reduced.
(F) bitter melon cooking guide
Do not eat too much at once.
Bitter melon boiled water scrub skin, can clear heat and relieve itching prickly heat.
Bitter melon and eggs eaten together can protect bones, teeth and blood vessels, so that iron is better absorbed, has the effect of stomach, can treat stomach gas pain, eye pain, colds, typhoid and pediatric diarrhea and vomiting.
Bitter melon is bitter, but with other ingredients will not be bitter flavor into other materials, is known as the "gentleman dish".
Food Compatibility Chart
Foods that are compatible with bitter melon Fish Bitter Melon Sardines and bitter melon together can easily cause allergies, so it is best to eat them separately for health reasons. Peanuts, bitter melon, peanuts more fat, bitter melon sex cold, the two together, easy to increase its slippery nature, more food is very easy to lead to diarrhea. Foods that go well with bitter melon Eggplant Bitter Melon Bitter melon clears the heart and eyes, benefits the qi and strengthens the yang, eggplant removes pain and activates blood circulation, clears heat and reduces swelling, relieves pain and relieves diuresis, which is the best dietary match for cardiovascular patients. Chili Pepper Bitter Melon Green pepper is rich in vitamin C. Combined with bitter melon, it is rich in vitamin C, iron and capsaicin, making it an ideal bodybuilding and anti-aging dish. Yam Bitter gourd Bitter gourd and yam are both effective in weight loss and lowering blood sugar, taking them together can enhance the effect of weight loss and detoxification. Duck Bitter Melon Duck eggs are rich in calcium and bitter melon has a lot of vitamin C. Taken together, they can improve the absorption rate of calcium. Asparagus Bitter melon Bitter melon and asparagus with food, can make the skin to restore blood color, on the treatment of anemia, eliminate fatigue is very helpful. Mushroom Bitter Melon Mushroom can reduce cholesterol and bitter melon is rich in dietary fiber, which can reduce fat absorption. Green Pepper Bitter Melon Green pepper, which is rich in vitamin C, iron and capsaicin, combined with bitter melon, which is rich in vitamin C, is an ideal anti-aging dish. Carrot Bitter melon Both contain sugar-lowering substances, carrot also has the effect of lowering blood lipids, promoting the synthesis of adrenaline, lowering blood pressure and strengthening the heart. Eggs Bitter melon Eggs and bitter melon eaten together can protect the health of bones, teeth and blood vessels of diabetic patients. Previous Full text (*** 16668 words) Expand All