8 Homemade Dragon Fruit Dishes

For friends who want to lose weight by drinking dragon fruit but also want to save money, you can try making your own dragon fruit dishes at home. The effect is no worse than the products bought outside.

1. Dragon Fruit and Sweet Potato Milk Drink

Ingredients: 100g dragon fruit, 100g sweet potato, 250ml milk

Method: Cut the sweet potato into small cubes and steam it. Cut the dragon fruit into cubes of the same size as the sweet potato, put them in a bowl with the steamed sweet potato, and pour milk over it (for those who like sweets, you can use sweet milk).

Serving: Served with a poached egg and some snacks, it becomes a delicious and nutritious breakfast.

Effect: Regular consumption can boost immunity and prevent constipation and colon cancer.

Dragon Fruit and Sago Pudding

2. Dragon Fruit and Sago Pudding

Ingredients: 1 dragon fruit, a handful of sago, rock sugar, goji berries as needed.

Method:

1. Cooking sago: It requires two cycles of cold and hot water. First, cook until there are white dots in the middle and it is semi-transparent, then lift it out and rinse with cold water once; then put it back into boiling water and cook until transparent, lift it out and rinse with cold water for the second time to make the sago crystal clear and smooth.

2. Cut the dragon fruit in half, scoop out the pulp with a spoon, keeping the peel intact, then put the scooped pulp back into the peel, add sago and rock sugar.

Effect: Eating it often in summer can invigorate the spleen and nourish the stomach.

3. Dragon Fruit, Tremella and Snow Pear Soup

Ingredients: 1 dragon fruit, 30g tremella, 30g wood ear mushroom, 1 snow pear, 15g green peas, 15g goji berries, appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Method:

1. Soak the tremella and wood ear mushroom in boiling water, clean them, take the pulp out of the dragon fruit and set the shell aside, cut the dragon fruit pulp and snow pear into even pieces.

2. Put the cut dragon fruit, snow pear pieces, tremella, wood ear mushroom, and rock sugar in a pot, add enough water, and simmer on low heat for one hour; cook the green peas and goji berries.

3. Pour the cooked soup into the dragon fruit shell, sprinkle with green peas and goji berries.

Effect: Clearing heat, resolving phlegm, moistening the lungs, and helping smokers and drinkers expel toxins.

Dragon Fruit, Tremella and Snow Pear Soup

4. Red Dragon Fruit Health Wine

Ingredients: 600g dragon fruit, 250g rock sugar, 600g glutinous rice wine.

Method:

1. Wash the dragon fruit, let it dry completely, peel it, and then cut it into small pieces;

2. Place a layer of dragon fruit slices and a layer of rock sugar in a wide-mouthed glass jar;

3. Pour in the wine, then seal the jar tightly;

4. Affix a production date label, place it in a cool place, and let it steep for three months before opening, filtering the dregs, and bottling for drinking.

Effect: Enhance cardiovascular function, strengthen the body, accelerate blood circulation, and thus achieve the effect of weight loss.

Precautions:

1. The nutritional value of red-fleshed and white-fleshed dragon fruit is similar, either can be used for brewing, but the wine brewed from red-fleshed varieties has a more beautiful color;

2. Because the dragon fruit itself lacks a strong fruity aroma, the wine will have a stronger taste. It is recommended to dilute it with some juice before drinking.

5. Passion Fruit and Dragon Fruit Jam

Ingredients: 300g passion fruit, 300g dragon fruit, 2g stevia, 300g maltose, 50g rock sugar.

Method:

1. Wash the passion fruit, drain the water, cut it open, and take 300g of pulp juice;

2. Cut the dragon fruit pulp into small cubes, set aside;

3. Add the passion fruit pulp and dragon fruit cubes and continue to cook on low heat;

4. When cooking, stir frequently with a wooden spoon to avoid burning, and frequently skim off the foam during the cooking process;

5. Cook on low heat until the juice becomes thick, then turn off the heat, bottle it, and let it cool before refrigerating for storage.

Effect: Sweet and delicious, to be eaten as a nutritious and healthy jam.

Dragon Fruit and Shrimp Cups

6. Stir-fried Dragon Fruit and Shrimp

Ingredients: 1 dragon fruit, 200g fresh shrimp, 1 egg white, 2 stalks of celery, appropriate amount of starch, salad oil, and salt.

Method:

1. Peel the fresh shrimp (river shrimp) and use a dry cloth to remove the moisture from the shrimp.

2. Marinate with salt for a while, drain the water, and then squeeze out the water with a dry cloth. Put the shrimp in the egg white, add dry starch, and stir in one direction. Finally, toss with salad oil (to prevent the shrimp from sticking together when cooked), and let it sit for 10 minutes.

3. Wash and cut the celery, peel the dragon fruit, wash and cut the scallions.

4. Do not heat the wok too hot, put the shrimp in the pot and stir with chopsticks in a clockwise direction, take it out as soon as the color changes.

5. Add oil, thin celery stalks, dragon fruit, and scallions, stir-fry for a couple of times, add the shrimp, and stir-fry until done.

Effect: Nourishes the kidneys and spleen, and helps with weight loss.

7. Dragon Fruit and Prawn Salad

Ingredients: 3 dragon fruits, 6 large prawns, 300g celery, salad dressing.

Method: 1. Cut the dragon fruit in half, use a small knife to scoop out the pulp, cut it into small cubes and set aside;

2. Wash the large prawns, bring water to a boil in a pot, add a few drops of lemon juice and a little salt, and blanch the prawns until cooked;

3. Cut the celery into cubes, blanch briefly in boiling water with oil and salt, and then rinse with cold water after taking it out;

4. Mix the dragon fruit cubes and celery cubes with salad dressing.

Dragon Fruit and Creamy Glutinous Rice Cake

8. Dragon Fruit Glutinous Rice Cake

Ingredients: Dragon fruit, black plum, cucumber cubes, glutinous rice cake, honey.

Method: Peel and cut the dragon fruit, remove the pits from the black plum, put the cucumber cubes and glutinous rice cake into the dragon fruit container, and add an appropriate amount of honey to taste. It not only whets the appetite, is nutritious, but also has a very good weight loss effect.