How to make braised pork belly and pumpkin

Braised pork belly and pumpkin is a common cooking method. Pork belly and pumpkin are two ingredients that go well together. When made into pork belly and pumpkin stew, it not only has high nutritional value, but also is very effective in improving immunity. We know that pumpkin is a high-quality and inexpensive ingredient, and it has a very good effect in conditioning and health care. Especially for girls, eating some pumpkin between menstruation can have a good effect on regulating menstruation.

How to make braised pork belly and pumpkin

Ingredients: 500g pumpkin, 100g pork belly

Seasoning: 1 teaspoon salt, chicken powder, 2 star anise, some peppercorns, 1 spoon cooking wine, some blending oil

How to stew pork belly with pumpkin

1. Peel and seed the old pumpkin, wash it, cut it into small triangular pieces and set aside.

2. Wash the pork belly, put it into a pot of boiling water, add onion segments, ginger slices, and peppercorns, pour in 1 spoon of cooking wine to remove the fishy smell, cover the pot and cook for five minutes, then remove from the pot.

3. Cut the cooled pork belly into thin slices and set aside.

4. Heat oil in a pan and sauté chopped green onion and ginger.

5. Add peppercorns and stir-fry until fragrant.

6. Pour in the pork belly and stir-fry over low heat until the oil comes out.

7. Pour in the chopped pumpkin pieces and stir well.

8. Add appropriate amount of hot water, add star anise, cover the pot and simmer for ten minutes.

9. When the soup is almost cooked, add appropriate amount of salt.

10. Reduce the sauce, add a little chicken essence and serve.

What are the benefits of eating pumpkin during menstruation

Many friends like pumpkin very much, because pumpkin is not only delicious but also rich in nutrients. Eating pumpkin often can have good health effects. Pumpkin has the benefits of preventing and treating high blood pressure and diabetes.

Pumpkin, rice melon, pumpkin, is called pumpkin in Shandong area and is called wax gourd in Northeast China. Edible, sweet. A plant of the Cucurbitaceae family and the genus Pumpkin. Annual creeping herb, stems often root at nodes, extending to 2-5 meters, densely covered with short white bristles. The petiole is thick and native to Mexico to Central America, and is widely cultivated around the world. It was introduced into my country in the Ming Dynasty and is now widely planted in various parts of the north and south.

Pumpkin is rich in carotene and vitamin C, which can strengthen the spleen, prevent gastritis, prevent and treat night blindness, protect the liver, make the skin tender, and neutralize carcinogens. Yellow fruits and vegetables are also rich in two vitamins, A and D. Vitamin A can protect the gastrointestinal mucosa and prevent diseases such as gastritis and gastric ulcers. Vitamin D can promote the absorption of two mineral elements, calcium and phosphorus, and thus strengthen bones and tendons. It has a certain preventive effect on common diseases such as rickets in children, myopia in adolescents, and osteoporosis in middle-aged and elderly people.

Pumpkin not only has high edible value, but also has therapeutic effects that cannot be ignored. According to the "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica", pumpkin is warm in nature, sweet and non-toxic. It enters the spleen and stomach meridians. It can moisten the lungs and replenish qi, resolve phlegm and discharge pus, expel parasites and detoxify, treat cough and asthma, treat lung abscess and constipation, and has diuretic and beauty effects. Research experiments by medical experts and scholars at home and abroad have shown that eating pumpkin seeds can relieve the symptoms of prostate hypertrophy (pumpkin seeds can cure prostate hypertrophy), prevent prostate cancer, prevent and treat arteriosclerosis and gastric mucosal ulcers, and dissolve stones.