How to make delicious vegetable gourd

There are many types of vegetables, and different vegetables have different effects on the human body, but they have one thing in common, that is, they are all good for the human body. Vegetable gourd is also a kind of vegetable. It is a type of gourd. It looks like a green gourd. It has many nutritional values ​​and is very popular among the public. It also has many ways to cook. So how to make vegetable gourd delicious?

The vegetable gourd is also known as the meat gourd and the night-blooming cereus. It is called the dry gourd in Japan. It belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family and is a type of gourd. It is rich in protein, fat, carotene, carbohydrates, ascorbic acid, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and other nutrients, and is loved by consumers at home and abroad.

Bian Lichang, a farmer in Luoshuizhai Village, Gaotun Town, Gaizhou City, Liaoning Province, grows vegetable gourd as his main crop. Every spring, Bian Lichang uses plastic bags to grow vegetable gourd seedlings just like melon and watermelon seedlings: "Put soil in the bag, plant seeds in the soil, and cover them with straw mats. This method allows the vegetable gourds to be planted a month earlier, and can also be picked and sold earlier." Around April 20, the vegetable gourd seedlings can be planted in the field, with 240 to 250 trees planted per acre.

The vegetable gourd is a variant of the gourd in this genus. It has many shapes, including "duck pear" shape, long-handled pear shape, and in some places, cylindrical gourds with round ends and loofah-shaped gourds are all called vegetable gourds.

The vegetable gourd is edible when it is tender. When the pear-shaped ones are old and dry, they can be sawed in half and used as tools for scooping water, digging rice, and digging noodles. If you saw it open before it is completely dry, you can put sand inside to prevent it from drying out and deforming. There are also some that are not sawed in the middle, but sawed in half at the stem, and used as gourds for grinding sesame oil and holding the oil. The vegetable gourd also has certain medicinal value, it can clear away heat, relieve summer heat, quench thirst, eliminate restlessness and promote diuresis. It is suitable for various types of edema, such as cardiac edema, nephritic edema, ascites due to cirrhosis, etc.; it is suitable for consumption when one feels hot and thirsty in summer, or when one has dry mouth due to fever. "Qunfangpu" says: "Gourd seeds have a light taste and can be cooked but not eaten raw. They are eaten daily in summer." "Food Materia Medica" says: "It benefits the large intestine and moisturizes the skin."

All tender fruits of the Cucurbitaceae family can be eaten, the only difference is the thickness of the flesh and the vegetable value. The unit yield of vegetable gourd is large, and it is a good economic crop for farmers.