Winter melon is cold and sweet, and has the effects of moistening lung, promoting fluid production, resolving phlegm and quenching thirst, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling. Propanolic diacid contained in wax gourd can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar to fat. In addition, wax gourd itself does not contain fat, and its calorie is not high, which is of great significance to prevent the human body from getting fat and can also help to keep fit.
Wax gourd contains more vitamin C, higher potassium salt and lower sodium salt. The patient suffers from diseases such as hypertension, nephropathy and edema. It can reduce swelling without damaging healthy qi.
Winter melon diet
1. winter melon soup
1. Preparation materials: prepare 200 grams of wax gourd, 0/00 grams of peas/kloc, and 200 grams of tofu.
2. Cut the winter melon into tofu: wash the winter melon, peel and cut into pieces, cut the tofu into small pieces, and wash the peas for later use.
3. Stir-fry wax gourd: pour a little base oil into the pot and stir-fry the wax gourd pieces for a while.
4. Add water: then pour peas and tofu blocks, and pour water directly without boiling.
5. Boil: After the water is boiled, boil for two minutes and turn off the fire.
6. Finish: Add a little salt and sesame oil and serve.
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Winter melon is cold, spleen and stomach are weak, kidney is cold, long illness is slippery, and yang deficiency limbs are cold.
2. Winter melon soup
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Formula: lotus root100g, wax gourd with skin 200g.
Method: Cut the wax gourd into pieces, put it in a pot with lotus root knots, add water and decoct for 20 minutes, and take the juice.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and stranguria, diuresis and stopping bleeding. Clearing heat and cooling blood, diuresis and stranguria.
3. Luohan winter melon soup
Ingredients: wax gourd 350g, lotus seed, lily, coix seed, shiitake mushroom and gluten 20g each, pearl bamboo shoots, tofu 1 tablespoon, 4 cups of vegetarian soup, 2 slices of ginger and appropriate amount of salt.
Practice: Peel and dice wax gourd. Wash lotus seeds, lilies and coix seed, soak until soft, and steam with clear water. Soak mushrooms, wash and cut into pieces, and wash and cut into pieces with gluten. Hot oil, saute ginger slices, cook vegetarian soup, add all the ingredients, cook on high fire 10 minutes, and season with salt.
4. Wax gourd seaweed soup
Ingredients: wax gourd 1 kg, 4 pieces of kelp, 2 pieces of dried tangerine peel, and half a catty of lean meat.
Practice: Peel the wax gourd, wash it, soak kelp to remove mud, cut it into sections, then put it into the pot with dried tangerine peel and lean meat, add eight bowls of water, cook for about two hours, and add salt to taste. This soup combines whitening, freckle removal and weight loss, and is most suitable for people who are greedy for beauty.
5. winter melon shrimp
Ingredients: shrimp/shrimp skin, wax gourd.
Practice: shell the shrimp, remove the shrimp line, wash it, drain it and put it in a bowl; Wash and peel the wax gourd and cut it into small dominoes. Cook the shrimp in a pot with cold water until crisp, then add the wax gourd and cook until the wax gourd is cooked. Season with a little salt and chicken essence, and then put it in the entrance bowl. (Put as little seasoning as possible)
6. Winter melon and mushroom soup
Ingredients: 500g wax gourd, Tricholoma giganteum 100g, proper amount of cooking wine, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, wet starch, soybean oil and bean sprout soup. Practice: first wash the wax gourd, peel it, take it out, put it in a boiling water pot, soak it in cold water after taking it out, and then cut it into pieces; Remove impurities from Tricholoma giganteum and wash it. Then, heat the soybean oil in a wok, add bean sprout soup, Tricholoma, wax gourd, cooking wine, refined salt and monosodium glutamate, boil with strong fire, simmer with slow fire until the Tricholoma and wax gourd taste, hook them with wet starch, and take them out and put them into a soup plate.
7. Winter melon soup
Ingredients: 500g of wax gourd, coix seed 1 00g, ginger10g, 3g of dadun, 5g of Jiu Shao, 7g of monosodium glutamate1g, 7g of chopped green onion, cooked chicken oil10g, and a little refined salt.
Practice: first scrape the melon, wash it, and cut it into pieces 5 cm long and 1 cm thick; Wash Coicis Semen, onion and ginger, break ginger and cut onion into sections. Put a clean pot in medium heat, add water to boil, add wax gourd strips, coix seed, ginger slices, onion slices and Shaoxing wine to boil, pick out onion and ginger, cook chicken oil, salt and monosodium glutamate, sprinkle with chopped green onion and stir well.
8. Winter melon and coriander soup
Ingredients: 500g wax gourd, 25g coriander, sesame sauce, shredded onion, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper and sesame oil.
Practice: Peel wax gourd, wash and cut into pieces; Wash coriander and cut into small pieces; Put sesame paste in a small bowl and dilute with sesame oil. Add water and wax gourd slices to the wok, add pepper and salt, and cook until cooked. When the soup is almost gone, pour the sesame paste into the pot, stir constantly, sprinkle with monosodium glutamate and stir well, then take out the pot and put half of coriander and chopped green onion on it. Wash the wok, heat it, pour in a little sesame oil, heat it, pour in chopped green onion and shredded coriander, and sprinkle with half of coriander.