Ingredients and methods for bitter melon salad

The method of making cold bitter melon is actually quite simple. Let me introduce it to you below.

Bitter Melon Salad

Clears away heat and removes heart fire, detoxifies, improves eyesight, replenishes qi and benefits essence, quenches thirst and relieves heat, and treats carbuncle.

Ingredients for bitter melon salad

Ingredients: 500g bitter melon, 9g cooked vegetable oil, 10g soy sauce, 20g bean paste, 2g refined salt, 25g chili shreds, 5g minced garlic

How to make bitter melon salad

(1) Cut the bitter melon in half, remove the pulp, wash and cut into 1 cm wide strips, blanch in boiling water, soak in cold water and remove, then drain.

(2) Add shredded chili peppers and salt to the bitter melon strips, drain the water, and then soak them in cold boiled water. Then add soy sauce, bean paste, mashed garlic and cooked oil and mix well.

Tips

It is better to choose green bitter melon. White bitter melon is old and bitter. 1. Promotes diet, reduces inflammation and fever:

The bitter glycosides and bitter substances in bitter melon can increase appetite, strengthen the spleen and stimulate the appetite; the alkaloid substance quinine contained in bitter melon has the effects of diuresis, blood circulation, anti-inflammatory and fever-reducing, and clearing the mind and improving eyesight;

2. Anti-cancer:

The protein components and a large amount of vitamin C in bitter melon can enhance the body's immune function and enable immune cells to kill cancer cells; bitter melon juice contains a certain protein component that can enhance macrophage ability and is clinically effective against lymphosarcoma and leukemia; the trypsin inhibitor extracted from bitter melon seeds can inhibit the protease secreted by cancer cells and prevent the growth of malignant tumors;

3. Lowers blood sugar:

The fresh juice of bitter melon contains momordica glycosides and insulin-like substances, which has a good effect in lowering blood sugar and is an ideal food for diabetic patients.