Bitter gourd is a seasonal food in summer. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, most bitter ingredients can clear away heat and detoxify. It is easy to get angry when the temperature is high in summer. Therefore, eating some bitter food is beneficial to relieve summer heat, and bitter gourd, as a seasonal food, is especially suitable for summer consumption.
From the functional point of view, bitter gourd tastes slightly bitter, cold in nature, can detoxify, clear away heat and fire, and has therapeutic effects on symptoms such as fever, toothache, bloody stool and acute enteritis. And bitter gourd can be used as medicine all over the body, whether it is roots, vines or leaves, it has relative effects. From the perspective of contemporary pharmacology, bitter gourd is rich in nutrition and vitamin C. Eating more bitter gourd helps to maintain cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and reduce blood lipids and blood carbohydrates. However, it must be reminded that bitter gourd is cold, so if the constitution belongs to people with yin deficiency and internal heat, it is better to eat less or not.
Bitter gourd, as a home-cooked snack, has many methods. How to make it taste better? Here are some practices of bitter gourd. 1. Bitter gourd juice
Wash the bitter gourd, dig out the pulp, cut it into small pieces, put it into the juicer with green lemon peel, and add some pure honey to taste when taking it.
Mix bitter gourd with cold dish.
Wash the bitter gourd, remove the pulp, cut into pieces, blanch it with boiling water, pick it up, and take it after mixing it with seasoning. Seasoning can be selected according to your own taste.
3. Bitter gourd beef and mutton
Wash the bitter gourd, remove the pulp and slice it, marinate the beef and mutton slices with edible oil, salt, sugar and water starch for 20 minutes, blanch the bitter gourd slices in boiling water with salt and oil, take them out and let them cool, then put them in hot oil and stir-fry the minced garlic, then stir-fry the beef and mutton in a pot, and add some oil-consuming seasonings to the dish containing bitter gourd.
4. Bitter gourd scrambled eggs
Wash bitter gourd, slice it, blanch it with salted oil and boiling water, take it out and dry it, put it in a pan stir-fried with garlic paste and fresh shrimp, stir-fry until half-cooked, then add mixed egg liquid and stir-fry until cooked.
5. Bitter gourd brewing
Cut bitter gourd into long sections, remove the pulp and seeds inside, and fill in the stuffing, which can be prepared according to your own taste. Stir-fry the brewed bitter gourd in a hot pot until it is half cooked, and add other seasonings to stew until it is cooked.
6. Stir-fried bitter gourd
Slice bitter gourd, stir-fry onion with oil in the pot, add bitter gourd slices and stir-fry, then add salt and sugar and stir-fry again until cooked, and then pour some sesame oil to serve.
7. Bitter gourd crisp mutton soup
Peel and slice bitter gourd, such as blanching in boiling water until it is half cooked, and then pick it up. Blanch the vegetarian beef in a pot to remove oil, pour the two foods into the pot with water, and stew the medlar and distiller's grains together.
8. Bitter gourd bone soup
Cut bitter gourd into strips, blanch bitter gourd and lamb chops with boiling water, pour them into the pot together, and add appropriate amount of cold water to cook until cooked.
These are some common practices of bitter gourd. Everyone has different tastes and can choose to make them according to their own hobbies. Bitter gourd can be eaten not only boiled, but also eaten raw immediately, or made into bitter gourd and soaked in water. Whether eaten raw or cooked directly, bitter gourd can give full play to its function of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and it is one of the essential foods in summer. It is worth mentioning that bitter gourd also has the effects of beauty, skin care and weight loss. Making bitter gourd into various fruit juices or fruit and vegetable juices can bring the effect of slimming.
However, it must be noted that bitter gourd juice is not suitable for everyone to lose weight, especially those with gastrointestinal discomfort. Don't try casually. After all, bitter gourd is cold, and drinking bitter gourd juice immediately is harmful to the gastrointestinal tract.