How to make stir-fried winter melon with meat

Winter melon is a vegetable that can be eaten all year round. Winter melon is very nutritious. If we have inflammation or constipation, we can eat some winter melon to improve the condition. Winter melon is rich in nutrients, including protein, sugar and a small amount of calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals and vitamins, etc., and has a strong diuretic effect, which can increase the effect of weight loss. So, what is the method of stir-fried winter melon with meat?

Ingredients: winter melon, lean meat, cooking wine, cooking oil, salt, MSG, chicken essence, garlic sprouts, water, and red pepper.

Steps:

Step 1: Cut garlic sprouts into sections, peel and slice winter melon, flatten and chop minced garlic, cut lean meat into shreds (add some cooking wine and stir evenly), and remove the seeds and chop the red pepper.

Step 2: Add oil to a wok, add minced garlic and red pepper, and sauté until fragrant.

Step 3: Add shredded pork and stir-fry until white.

Step 4: Add garlic sprouts and stir-fry.

Step 5. Add winter melon and stir-fry for 2-3 minutes.

Step 6. Add a little water, appropriate amount of salt, MSG and chicken essence and continue to stir-fry for 1-2 minutes.

Step 7. Serve on a plate and the stir-fried winter melon and pork are ready.

Tips:

Don't add too much water, salt and chicken essence (it's salty); friends who like spicy food can add spicy peppers; friends who like the taste of chopped green onions can sprinkle some chopped green onions on the stir-fried winter melon and shredded pork after serving.

The efficacy and function of winter melon

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.

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.