How to make a delicious cold stew of ground melon?

Earth melon is a food with extremely high nutritional value. The benefits of eating it correctly to the body are immeasurable. There are many ways to eat earth melon in life, such as mixing it with cold dishes. If you want to make it more delicious, you must mix the seasonings evenly. If you like a strong taste, you can add some chili peppers appropriately. In addition, you can also make earth melon into steamed cakes, scallion pancakes, or stir-fry them, all of which taste very good.

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1. Steamed Cake

Take 1000 grams of flour, 300 grams of yam powder, 300 grams of white sugar, 8 grams of soda and appropriate amount of warm water, mix well, and after it is completely fermented, put it in a steamer and steam it over high heat. When it is off the heat and cooled to warm temperature, apply sesame oil on the surface, sprinkle with green and red silk and sesame seeds, and cut into pieces for eating. If you add some edible coloring, red dates, etc. to the ingredients, it will become colorful steamed cake, or red date steamed cake, which has beautiful color, is soft and delicious.

2. Scallion Pancake

Wash and steam the earthen melon, peel it and mash it into a paste. Add an equal amount of flour and an appropriate amount of warm water, green onion, pepper powder, salt, etc., mix well, make it into palm-sized round cakes, put it in a frying pan, and fry it with oil. The cake is golden in color, fragrant with onion and has a sweet taste.

3. Stir-fry

Wash an appropriate amount of sweet potatoes, peel them, and cut them into strips or slices. Heat the pan, pour in vegetable oil, stir-fry the sweet potatoes, and add water to simmer the pan. Just add salt before serving, or add an appropriate amount of sugar.

According to ancient documents such as "Compendium of Materia Medica" and "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica", sweet potatoes have the effects of "replenishing deficiency, strengthening qi and strength, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and strengthening kidney yin", making people "live longer and have fewer diseases". It can also nourish the middle, harmonize the blood, warm the stomach, and nourish the five internal organs. The contemporary "Chinese Materia Medica" says it: "It tastes sweet and is neutral in nature. It enters the spleen and kidney meridians." "It tonifies the middle and harmonizes blood, replenishes Qi and promotes body fluid, widens the intestines and stomach, and relieves constipation. It is mainly used to treat spleen deficiency edema, sores, swelling and toxins, and intestinal dryness and constipation." Sweet potatoes are rich in starch, dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins A, B, C, E and more than 10 kinds of trace elements such as potassium, iron, copper, selenium, calcium, and linoleic acid. It has high nutritional value and is called the most nutritionally balanced health food by nutritionists. These substances can maintain the elasticity of blood vessels and are very effective in preventing and treating habitual constipation in the elderly. Sweet potato leaves are the tender leaves at the top of the above-ground stems of sweet potatoes after they mature in autumn. Tests show that every 100 grams of fresh sweet potato leaves contains 2.28 grams of protein, 0.2 grams of fat, 4.1 grams of sugar, 16 milligrams of mineral potassium, 2.3 milligrams of iron, 34 milligrams of phosphorus, 6.42 milligrams of carotene, and 0.32 milligrams of vitamin C. Compared with common vegetables, its content of minerals and vitamins is superior, and its carotene content is even higher than that of carrots. Therefore, the Asian Vegetable Research Center has listed sweet potato leaves as a high-nutrition vegetable variety, calling it the "Queen of Vegetables."

2. Medicinal value of ground melon

The National Cancer Research Center of Japan released a "ranking list" of 20 anti-cancer vegetables: sweet potato, asparagus, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, celery, squash, bell pepper, carrot, cauliflower, amaranth, shepherd's purse, kohlrabi, mustard greens, tomatoes, onions, garlic, cucumber, and Chinese cabbage, among which sweet potato tops the list. Through a dietary survey of 260,000 people, Japanese doctors found that the cancer inhibition rate of cooked sweet potatoes (98.7%) is slightly higher than that of raw sweet potatoes (94.4%). The Philadelphia Hospital in the United States also extracted an active substance from sweet potatoes - androstenone, which can effectively inhibit the occurrence of colon cancer and breast cancer.

Sweet potatoes have anti-cancer effects, are good for the heart, prevent emphysema, and have anti-diabetic effects.

The shortcoming of sweet potatoes is that they lack protein and lipids. However, people today live a wealthy life and no longer use sweet potatoes as their staple food. The nutrients they lack can be supplemented through other diets. For example, eat milk and sweet potatoes at the same time, because milk is rich in protein and fat.