How to cook delicious winter melon? Homemade winter melon recipe tutorial

Winter melon can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, help lose weight and prevent the three highs, and is the most suitable vegetable for people to eat. However, this vegetable has a relatively light taste, and people usually feel that it has no taste and is not very delicious when they eat it. This situation has a lot to do with the way people cook winter melon. Below I will introduce several common methods of cooking winter melon, so that everyone can understand in detail how to make winter melon delicious.

Steamed Winter Melon with Minced Pork

1. Winter melon can not only be fried, but also steamed. After adding minced meat, the steamed winter melon tastes particularly good. Before cooking, you need to prepare 300 grams of winter melon, 100 grams of minced meat, appropriate amounts of onion and ginger, appropriate amounts of salt, light soy sauce, cooking wine and sesame oil.

2. Add the prepared minced meat and chopped green onion and ginger, then add appropriate amount of table salt, and finally add light soy sauce and cooking wine, mix well and marinate. The marinating time should not be less than 30 minutes, so that the minced meat can be better flavored.

3. Remove the prepared winter melon, remove the skin and flesh, and cut into 5 mm thick slices. Place them on a plate, leaving the middle part empty and put in the minced meat. Then put them into the pot and steam them for 15 minutes after the water boils.

4. Put oil, sesame oil, starch and a small amount of water in a wok to make a sauce. After the winter melon in the wok is steamed, take it out and pour the hot sauce directly on it. The steamed winter melon with good color, aroma and taste is ready.

Braised Winter Squash

1. Braised winter melon is also very delicious. When making it, you need to prepare 500 grams of winter melon, a pound of white sugar, light soy sauce, some dark soy sauce and oyster sauce, and finally prepare an appropriate amount of table salt and chicken essence.

2. Remove the rind and pulp of the prepared winter melon, make cuts on its surface, and then cut it into cubes. Heat the oil in a pan, and when the oil temperature rises, fry the winter melon cubes until they are slightly golden on all sides, then take them out.

3. Add oil to the pot again, heat it, add sugar, stir-fry to bring out the sugar color, then mix. Put the fried winter melon pieces in the pot and stir-fry evenly, then add salt, light soy sauce and dark soy sauce to color the winter melon. After the surface of the winter melon turns dark red, add a small bowl of water and cover the pot.

4. After the winter melon in the pot is cooked, add oyster sauce and chicken essence. Cook over high heat until the sauce is reduced. After the sauce is reduced, remove from the pot and serve directly on a plate. Then sprinkle with appropriate amount of chopped green onions for flavoring and decoration.