Winter melon steamed dumplings production steps and nutritional value

My mother often makes winter melon steamed dumplings for me. Now that I am alone outside, I have learned how to make them myself. Here I will share the method with you:

Recipe Introduction

Recipe name: Winter melon steamed dumplings

Cuisine: Fast food/staple food

Recipe effects: anemia conditioning, yin nourishing conditioning, elderly recipes, diabetes conditioning

Taste: Fresh fragrance

Ingredients for winter melon steamed dumplings

Ingredients: Wheat flour (500g), pork (fat and lean) (300g), winter melon (150g)

Accessories: ham (20g) ginger (5g)

Seasoning: white wine (10g), salt (3g), soy sauce (3g), sesame oil (10g)

Winter melon steamed dumplings production process

1. Cut the boiled dough into small pieces and roll them into dumpling wrappers.

2. Chop the minced meat again, add the minced ham, minced ginger and all the seasonings (wine, salt, soy sauce, water, sesame oil) and mix well.

3. Wash, peel and cut the winter melon into small dices, add it into the meat filling and mix well.

4. Wrap appropriate amount of fillings in each dumpling skin and shape into dumplings.

5. Put the dumplings into the steamer and steam them over high heat for 8 minutes. Take them out and let them cool slightly before eating.

Winter melon steamed dumplings recipe nutrition

Wheat flour: Flour is rich in protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, etc. It has the effects of nourishing the heart and kidneys, strengthening the spleen and intestines, removing heat and quenching thirst. It is mainly used to treat internal restlessness, fever, thirst, diarrhea, carbuncle, traumatic bleeding and burns.

Pork (fat and lean): Pork is rich in high-quality protein and essential fatty acids, and provides hemoglobin (organic iron) and cysteine ​​which promotes iron absorption, which can improve iron deficiency anemia. It has the effects of nourishing the kidney and blood, nourishing yin and moistening dryness. However, due to the high cholesterol content in pork, obese people and those with high blood lipids should not eat too much.

Winter melon: Winter melon contains a variety of vitamins and essential trace elements for the human body, which can regulate the body's metabolic balance. Winter melon is cold in nature, can nourish the stomach and produce body fluids, clear and reduce stomach fire, reduce food intake, and promote the conversion of starch and sugar in the body into heat energy instead of fat. Therefore, winter melon is an ideal vegetable for obese people. At the same time, winter melon has anti-aging effects. Long-term consumption can keep the skin white as jade, moist and smooth, and can keep the body fit. In addition, winter melon has a good effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat. Eating more winter melon in summer can not only quench thirst and relieve summer heat, but also promote diuresis and prevent people from getting furuncles. Because it is a diuretic and contains very little sodium, it is a good product for reducing swelling in chronic renal salt edema, malnutrition edema, and edema in pregnant women.

Ham sausage: Ham sausage contains nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, various minerals and vitamins that the human body needs. It also has the advantages of high absorption rate, good palatability and strong satiety. It is also suitable for processing into a variety of delicacies. Ham sausage contains additives such as nitrite, and it should not be eaten too much.

Ginger: Ginger has the effect of detoxification and sterilization, so when we eat preserved eggs or fish and crabs, we usually put some ginger powder and ginger juice. Gingerol in ginger can resist aging, and the elderly can remove "age spots" by eating ginger. Ginger extract can stimulate the gastric mucosa, cause reflex excitement of the vascular motor center and sympathetic nerves, promote blood circulation, invigorate gastric function, and achieve the effects of strengthening the stomach, relieving pain, sweating, and relieving fever. The volatile oil of ginger can enhance the secretion of gastric juice and the peristalsis of the intestinal wall, thereby helping digestion; the mixture of gingerene and gingerone separated from ginger has a significant anti-emetic effect. Ginger extract has the effect of significantly inhibiting skin fungi and killing vaginal trichomoniasis, and can treat various carbuncle sores; ginger also has the effect of inhibiting the activity of cancer cells and reducing the toxicity of cancer.

Recipe incompatibility

Pork (fat or lean): Pork should not be eaten with black plum, licorice, crucian carp, shrimp, pigeon meat, snails, almonds, donkey meat, lamb liver, coriander, turtle, water chestnut, buckwheat, quail meat, and beef. It is not advisable to drink a lot of tea after eating pork.

Winter melon: Winter melon should not be eaten with crucian carp or tonic medicines.