How to cook gourd

The gourd is a plant of the Cucurbitaceae family. It is edible when it is not fully mature. It has a certain role in regulating the body. It has a good diuretic effect. It is rich in minerals and vitamins, contains plant protein, and has certain health benefits for the body. There are many ways to cook the gourd. It can be used to make porridge, soup, or stuffing and stir-fry.

Vegetarian Gourd Porridge

Ingredients: 250g gourd, 1 mushroom, 2 small bowls of rice, 1 egg, 2 bowls of water, 1 teaspoon of mushroom essence, 1 teaspoon of salt, a little white pepper, a little sesame oil. Step 1: Cut mushrooms into shreds and shred gourd for later use. Step 2: Heat oil in a pan and fry mushrooms first. When fragrant, add gourd, mushroom essence and salt. Step 3: Heat until soft and add 2 bowls of water. Step 4: Add rice and cook.

Gourd and Pork Ribs Congee

Ingredients: 200 grams of gourd, a little carrot, a little dried mushroom, about 5-6 pieces of ribs, a little dried shrimp, a few clams (optional), a little salt, 1 and 1/4 cups of rice, 3/5 of water in a soup pot and a corn. Method: step1 Slice the gourd, cut the carrot into strips, soak the dried mushrooms in water and cut into strips, cut the corn kernels with a knife, and wash the dried shrimp. step2 Blanch the ribs, rinse them, then boil them in water to make the broth (this step can be omitted for those who want to eat vegetarian food). step3 Wash the white rice and cook it in the pot first. If you are cooking leftover rice, you can cook it together with the vegetables. step4 Then add some oil in another pot (just a little bit) and sauté the dried shrimp and mushroom shreds. step5 Then add the carrot shreds and stir-fry together

Steamed Gourd

Ingredients: appropriate amount of gourd, 1 scallion, 2-3 cloves of garlic, appropriate amount of sakura shrimp or dried shrimp, appropriate amount of salt, a little white pepper, appropriate amount of sesame oil. Step 1: Peel the gourd and cut into strips; take only the white part of the scallion and chop it into fine pieces; cut the garlic into slices. step2 Mix the chopped melon and garlic slices together, then add appropriate amount of salt and a little white pepper to season and stir well. step3 Put it in the rice cooker, add a cup of water to the outer pot, and turn on the switch. After the switch pops up, let it sit for 5 minutes. step4 After taking it out of the rice cooker, move the melon to a plate; add appropriate amount of sesame oil to a pan, and when the oil is hot, add the sakura shrimp or dried shrimp and chopped green onion and stir-fry until fragrant. step5 spread the sautéed sakura shrimp or dried shrimp and chopped green onion on the steamed gourd.