How to cook winter melon? Homemade recipes for eating winter melon

Winter melon is a particularly common melon dish. It can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, clear away heat and detoxify. It has many benefits to the human body. In addition, there are many ways to cook winter melon, and it can be made into delicious dishes with different flavors. Below is my detailed introduction to the complete home cooking methods of winter melon. If you like to eat winter melon, you can pay special attention to it.

Winter melon recipes

1. Dried Shrimp and Winter Melon

Shrimp and winter melon is a common way to cook winter melon. The main ingredients are shrimp and winter melon. Peel the winter melon and cut it into pieces. Heat oil in a pot and add chopped green onion and minced ginger to stir-fry. Then add appropriate amount of water, cooking wine, salt and shrimp and bring to a boil. Then put the winter melon slices in. Bring to a boil over high heat and simmer over medium heat. After the winter melon is well-flavored, add water starch to thicken it.

2. Winter melon and pork ribs soup

Winter melon and pork ribs soup is also one of the common ways to cook winter melon. You need to prepare winter melon and pork ribs when making it. Cut the winter melon into pieces, cut the pork ribs into sections, blanch them in boiling water, remove the blood foam, take them out and put them into the soup pot, add aniseed, ginger and other seasonings, then add water, pour them all together, simmer on low heat for an hour, then add the winter melon pieces and simmer for fifteen minutes, remove the aniseed and ginger pieces in the pot, add salt and pepper, mix well and it can be served.

3. Homemade pickled winter melon

In addition to stir-frying and making soup, winter melon can also be pickled and eaten later. When pickling, you need to peel and remove the skin of the winter melon, then spread salt on it and put it in the sun. After drying, put it in a clean jar with a layer of winter melon and a layer of rice wine. Finally, pour in rice wine, so that the rice wine covers the winter melon, seal it and pickle it. After about two months, the winter melon will be pickled to a transparent state, and then it can be taken out and eaten.