Four common ways to cook pumpkin and their benefits

Pumpkin is not only a delicious food, but also can prevent and treat pregnancy edema and high blood pressure.

1. Sweet and Sour Pumpkin Balls

500 grams of flour, salt, sugar, vinegar, starch, and vegetable oil. Peel and remove the pumpkin, wash and cut into pieces, steam it in a steamer, remove it, drain the water, add flour, sugar, salt, etc., and knead it into a dough; put oil in a pot and heat it to 70% hot, squeeze the pumpkin into small balls, fry them in oil until golden brown, then remove them; put oil in the pot, pour in 100 ml of water, add sugar and a little salt to thicken, pour in a little balsamic vinegar, pour in the balls and mix well. This dish has the effect of nourishing the middle and replenishing qi, warming the middle and stopping diarrhea, and is suitable for diarrhea caused by weak spleen and stomach, fatigue and other symptoms.

2. Seaweed Pumpkin Soup with Old Pumpkin

100 grams, 10 grams of laver, 20 grams of dried shrimp, 1 egg, appropriate amount of soy sauce, lard, rice wine, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil. Soak the laver in water, wash it, beat the eggs in a bowl and mix well, soak the dried shrimp in rice wine, peel and pulp the pumpkin, wash and cut into pieces; then put the pot on the fire, pour in the lard, heat it, put in the soy sauce, add appropriate amount of water, add dried shrimp and pumpkin pieces, cook for about 30 minutes, then put the laver in, after 10 minutes, pour the beaten egg liquid into the pot, add seasoning and mix well. This soup has the effect of protecting the liver, nourishing the kidney and strengthening the body, and is suitable for patients with liver and kidney dysfunction.

3. Pumpkin soup pumpkin 250 grams.

Peel and remove the pumpkin, wash and cut into small pieces, add 500 ml of water to a pot, cook until the pumpkin is cooked, and add seasoning. Drink the soup and eat the pumpkin, once in the morning and once in the evening. This soup has the effect of lowering blood sugar and quenching thirst, and diabetic patients can take it regularly.

4. Pumpkin and Pork Liver Soup

250g of pork liver, appropriate amount of refined salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil. First, peel and remove the pumpkin, wash and cut into pieces; wash and slice the pork liver; put the above two ingredients into the same pot, add 1000ml of water, cook until the pumpkin is rotten and the meat is cooked, add seasoning and mix well. This soup has the effect of strengthening the spleen, nourishing the liver and improving eyesight. Long-term consumption has a certain therapeutic effect on night blindness.

Pumpkin is warm in nature, so people with excessive stomach heat should eat less. Pumpkin is stagnant in nature, so people with qi stagnation and fullness in the middle should eat it with caution.