How to cook winter melon

There are many ways to cook winter melon, so today I will tell you a few ways to cook winter melon:

Orange Juice Winter Melon Balls

[Ingredients]: Winter melon, 1 bottle of original orange juice, 2 cherry tomatoes

【practice】:

1. Use a ball scoop to make winter melon into winter melon balls for later use;

2. Pour about 1 bottle of original orange juice into the pot, bring to a boil and add the winter melon balls;

3. After the winter melon is cooked, remove it from the plate and decorate it with thin slices of cherry tomatoes;

4. Add a little cornstarch to the orange juice in the pot to thicken it (you can add a little salt to enhance the flavor), and pour it on the cooked winter melon balls.

Braised Winter Squash

[Ingredients]: winter melon, ginger, onion, black bean sauce, light soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar, oyster sauce, sesame oil.

[Preparation]: Cut the winter melon into pieces, cut a small piece of ginger into shreds, and cut a scallion into sections.

Heat the pan and add a proper amount of oil. Add the fermented black bean sauce and stir-fry until fragrant, then add the shredded ginger. Then add the winter melon cubes and stir-fry. After a few stir-frys, add a proper amount of cooking wine, a little sugar, soy sauce, oyster sauce, and scallion slices, and add a proper amount of hot water to cover the winter melon. Simmer over medium heat until the soup is reduced, then boil over high heat until it is dry, then turn off the heat. Drizzle with a little sesame oil to enhance the flavor. That’s it.

Dried Shrimp and Winter Melon

1. Soak dried shrimps in boiling water for 5 minutes

2. Drain the water and marinate with ginger juice and cooking wine for 5 minutes

3. Use a colander to drain the water and set aside

4. Peel the winter melon, remove the pulp, wash and cut into thin slices, and marinate with salt for 5 minutes

5. Drain the pickled winter melon and set aside. Slice the garlic and ginger.

6. Heat a little oil in the pan, add the winter melon and fry for half a minute.

7. Continue to add oil, heat it, fry garlic and ginger until fragrant, remove garlic and ginger

8. Add the dried shrimp and stir-fry until it changes color slightly.

9. Add winter melon and stir-fry for one and a half minutes, add water and simmer for 2 minutes.

Winter Melon Soup

[Features] This soup has the effects of health care, beauty care, weight loss, heat relief, and qi-boosting. It is also simple to make and easy to obtain. It can be called the best soup for health preservation in summer!

[Ingredients]: 400 grams of winter melon, 100 grams of bacon or ham, 30 grams of pseudoginseng, 10 grams of honeysuckle, and appropriate amounts of MSG and chopped green onions.

[Method] Slice the bacon or ham, wash the winter melon and cut it into thin slices. Put the Radix Pseudostellariae and honeysuckle together, boil them in water until the Radix Pseudostellariae is soft, remove the honeysuckle and discard it, clarify the medicinal juice and set aside, add the bacon or ham and winter melon to boil, add the Radix Pseudostellariae, MSG and chopped green onions, and add a small amount of clarified medicinal juice, bring to a boil and serve.

The main ingredient, winter melon, is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It can clear away heat and promote the production of body fluids, making it particularly suitable for consumption in summer. Winter melon contains a lot of vitamin C, high potassium salt content and low sodium salt content. Patients with hypertension, kidney disease, edema and other diseases can eat it to reduce swelling without damaging their vital energy. The succinic acid contained in winter melon can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugars into fat. In addition, winter melon itself does not contain fat and has low calories, which is of great significance for preventing the body from gaining weight and can also help to keep fit. Pseudostellaria heterophylla can not only greatly replenish vitality, but also eliminate edema, resolve phlegm and quench thirst. As for the efficacy of honeysuckle, it can prevent heatstroke, enteritis, dysentery and other diseases, and also has the effect of resisting influenza viruses.

Jade Winter Melon

[Main ingredients]: 2 taels of mushrooms and 1.5 pounds of winter melon.

[Ingredients]: Steamed Winter Melon Seasoning: One slice of ginger, one scallion, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon sugar, 1/3 teaspoon cornstarch, 2 tablespoons oil, 3 tablespoons water.