How to make authentic crispy winter melon

Many people like to eat winter melon, and there are many ways to cook it. It has a good diuretic and diuretic effect. It can prevent edema and promote the body conditioning of patients with kidney disease. It is also a good ingredient for diabetic patients. It is also relatively simple to make authentic crispy winter melon. Eating some of it appropriately in the summer has a good effect of cooling off and has the effect of losing weight and reducing blood lipids.

How to make authentic crispy winter melon

[Ingredients/Seasonings]

200 grams of winter melon. 500 grams of peanut oil, 10 grams of salt, 5 grams of MSG, 3 grams of sugar, 25 grams of flour, 35 grams of cornstarch, a little baking powder, and a small amount of water.

[Production process]

1. Peel the winter melon, remove the seeds and cut into long strips. Add water to a pot, bring to a boil, then put in the winter melon strips. Cook until done, remove from the pot, wipe dry and set aside.

2. Mix water, flour, cornstarch, baking powder, salt, MSG and sugar into a crispy paste. Let it stand for 10 minutes and add the winter melon strips.

3. Heat oil in a pan, put in the ingredients coated with batter when the oil temperature reaches 130 degrees, fry until golden and crispy and serve.

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.

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.