Stir-fried winter melon with vermicelli

Vermicelli is now a common food. Every year when the sweet potato production season comes, a lot of vermicelli will appear. It will appear in various Chinese restaurants, such as buffets, hot pot restaurants, Chinese restaurants, including malatang and other places. The common way to eat vermicelli at home is to pair it with pork and cabbage. Pork stewed with vermicelli is an example. This article introduces the detailed preparation method of fried winter melon with vermicelli. If you want to learn, come and take a look.

Ingredients: 1 piece of winter melon, 1 handful of sweet potato flour, 3 slices of ginger, a few dried chilies, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 star anise, some vegetable oil, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, 1 teaspoon of sugar, some salt, some sesame oil, some chives, some black pepper

How to make winter melon stewed with vermicelli

Cut the winter melon into thick slices, which can be slightly larger.

Crush the garlic and prepare the spices.

While cutting the vegetables and adding the side dishes, cook the sweet potato vermicelli until the vermicelli is cooked through and translucent.

Heat the pan, pour in oil, add the spices and stir-fry until the aroma comes out.

Add soy sauce and oyster sauce and stir-fry evenly.

Pour in water of the same height, add appropriate amount of salt, black pepper and sugar, bring to a boil over high heat then turn to medium heat.

Keep stewing until the winter melon is soft, then serve and sprinkle with chives and a little sesame oil.

The efficacy and function of winter melon

Winter melon has high nutritional value and contains adenine, β-sitosterol, cucurbitacin β, vitamin B1, vitamin C, vitamin E and various amino acids.

1. Reduce fat and lose weight

The succinic acid in winter melon can effectively control the conversion of sugars into fat in the body, prevent fat accumulation in the body, and consume excess fat. It has a good effect on preventing and treating hypertension, atherosclerosis, and losing weight. Winter melon is high in dietary fiber, which can effectively improve the body's blood sugar level. In addition, dietary fiber can lower cholesterol, lower blood lipids and prevent atherosclerosis.

Winter melon flesh is rich in fenugreek, which can help the body's metabolism and inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat.

2. Beauty and skin care

Wax gourd seeds contain oleic acid, which has the function of inhibiting melanin deposition in the body and has a good moisturizing and beauty effect. In addition, the protein and citrulline contained in wax gourd seeds can moisturize the skin and inhibit the formation of melanin.

3. Diuresis and swelling

Winter melon is rich in various amino acids, and the content in seeds and peel is higher than that in the flesh. These substances can help the human body eliminate the toxicity of free ammonia and have diuretic and swelling-reducing effects. The crude fiber in winter melon can stimulate intestinal peristalsis and excrete carcinogens accumulated in the intestines as soon as possible.

4. Clear away heat and relieve summer heat

Winter melon is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It can clear away heat and promote the production of body fluid, and relieve summer heat and restlessness. It is especially suitable for consumption in summer and is often used to treat edema and swelling due to physical weakness.

5. Winter melon is a treasure from head to toe

The whole body of winter melon can be used as medicine: the winter melon peel is diuretic, reduces swelling, clears away heat and relieves summer heat, and can also be used to promote lactation; the winter melon seeds have the effects of clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, promoting dampness and discharging pus, and are used for lung heat cough, leucorrhea, etc.; the winter melon flesh has the effects of diuretic, clearing heat, eliminating phlegm and detoxifying, and can treat edema, cough and asthma, summer heat, thirst, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, etc., and can also detoxify alcohol and fish poisoning, etc.