Bitter gourd is a common vegetable in summer, but many people don't like it because it is bitter and not delicious. In fact, bitter melon soup is bitter first and then sweet.

1. Spleen and stomach: Bitter bitter gourd can stimulate appetite, open taste buds and double people's appetite.

2. Detoxification and weight loss: Bitter gourd can clear away heat, detoxify and diuresis, and soup can remove excess fat in the body, eliminate hammer meat and be slimmer.

3. tender skin: bitter gourd can be taken orally and externally under fire, and the juice is applied to swollen carbuncle, furuncle and prickly heat in the affected area. Drinking boiled water can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, and make the skin fit better.

4. Nourishing liver and nourishing blood: Cooked bitter gourd can nourish blood and liver, strengthen spleen and kidney, remove damp-heat, relieve fatigue, clear heart and improve eyesight, benefit qi and strengthen yang.

5. Suitable for diabetic patients.

Bitter gourd and what soup are good?

Bitter gourd is bitter, but it has many benefits to health. Eating bitter gourd often can relieve fatigue, make skin shiny, relieve aging, help to get rid of greasy and slim down, and quench thirst.

Bitter gourd is mixed with many ingredients, mainly domestic ribs, eggs, corn, snakehead and so on. But bitter gourd is cold, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency are not suitable for eating.

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Bitter gourd sparerib soup

Ingredients: one sparerib, one bitter gourd, half a bowl of soybeans, three mushrooms and one garlic.

Exercise:

1. Soak soybeans and mushrooms for four hours in advance, wash bitter gourd, remove pulp, and cut diamonds.

2. Boil hot water in the pot, pour it in, blanch it for 2 minutes, remove it, and rinse off the floating foam. Then pour the bitter gourd into the pot and blanch for one minute, then take it out. Cold water can remove most of the bitterness.

3. Put the ribs, mushrooms and soybeans in a saucepan, add enough water and stew for 2 hours until the soybeans are soft and rotten, and the ribs are fragrant. Then add bitter gourd and cook for 15 minutes, and finally season.

Bitter gourd chicken soup

This is a soup for clearing away heat and reducing fire, relieving summer heat and improving eyesight. Bitter gourd can combine the greasy feeling and nourishing of chicken soup, and it tastes more refreshing.

Ingredients: chicken legs, bitter gourd, ginger, salt.

Exercise:

1. Slice ginger, cut chicken leg into sections, wash bitter gourd, remove pulp and cut into sections.

2. Stir-fry the chicken pieces in hot oil in a hot pot until they change color, transfer them to a casserole, add ginger slices and stew for one and a half hours, then add bitter gourd and stew for another half hour, and finally season with salt and chicken essence.

Home-cooked bitter melon soup

Ingredients: laver, bitter gourd, shrimp skin

Exercise:

1. Slice bitter gourd, marinate it with salt for a few minutes and then rinse it off.

2. Stir-fry bitter gourd in hot oil for a while, add appropriate amount of water to boil, add laver, shrimp skin and egg liquid to cook soup.