How to make fried cucumber with vermicelli

Everyone is familiar with the vegetable cucumber. When it comes to this vegetable, people usually eat it when it is just ripe and tender. They can pick it and wash it and eat it directly, or they can stir-fry or stew it, etc. However, there is one dish that requires older cucumbers, which is fried old cucumber with vermicelli. It is a very delicious dish. Here I will introduce the complete recipe of fried old cucumber with vermicelli.

Method 1:

Ingredients for 2 people

1 old cucumber, 8 vermicelli strips

Excipients

Onion, 1 tablespoon oyster sauce, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 tablespoon vinegar, 2 teaspoons salt, ginger, garlic

Fried cucumber with vermicelli step 1

Take out a few rice noodles from the bag (if you like rice noodles, you can put more) and put them in a basin. Boil a pot of hot water, pour it on the rice noodles and soak for 8 minutes, then pour out the hot water and add some cold water to continue soaking

Step 2

Wash and peel the old cucumber

Step 3

Use a spoon to remove the old cucumber pulp

Step 4

Slice the old cucumber

Step 5

Chop onion, ginger and garlic

Step 6

Put oil in the pan, heat the oil, add onion, ginger and garlic and fry

Step 7

Add soy sauce

Step 8

Add cucumber slices and stir fry

Step 9

Fry the cucumber until it is translucent and soft. Add a spoonful of oyster sauce and continue to stir fry.

Step 10

Add vermicelli, stir fry for a while, then pour in the vinegar and continue to stir fry

Step 11

Add salt and serve

Method 2:

Main ingredients: one piece of vermicelli, one cucumber, some dried chili peppers

Step 1. Boil the rice noodles in water, rinse with cold water, and cut into strips.

2. Clap the cucumber and then cut it diagonally.

3. Mash the garlic

4. Add oyster sauce, salt, vinegar, dried chili peppers to cucumber and pour hot pepper oil on it.

5. Mix well, serve on a plate, and pour mashed garlic on top. It is refreshing and delicious, the best cold dish on the summer table.

Benefits of Cucumber:

1. Clear away heat and detoxify

Cucumber is cool in nature, and can clear away heat, promote diuresis, detoxify and reduce swelling. Cucumber has the effects of clearing heat and quenching thirst, diuresis and detoxification. Eating it regularly is beneficial to your health.

2. Lowers blood sugar

The glucosides and fructose contained in cucumbers do not participate in the normal sugar metabolism. Therefore, when diabetics use cucumbers instead of starchy foods to satisfy their hunger, their blood sugar will not rise, and may even decrease.

3. Nourish your brain and calm your mind

Cucumber contains vitamin B1, which is beneficial to improving the function of the brain and nervous system, can calm the mind and assist in the treatment of insomnia.

4. Lose weight and strengthen the body

The succinic acid contained in cucumbers can inhibit the conversion of carbohydrates into fat. In addition, the cellulose in cucumbers plays a certain role in promoting the elimination of corrupt substances in the human intestines and lowering cholesterol, which can strengthen the body.

5. Anti-tumor

Cucurbitacin C contained in cucumbers can enhance the body's immune function and achieve anti-tumor effects. In addition, this substance can also treat chronic hepatitis and persistent hepatitis, and prolong the survival of patients with primary liver cancer.