Most people think that the most delicious thing about cucumbers is the "top flowers with thorns". When cucumbers are old, they will have no effect. However, Cantonese people like to use old cucumbers to make soup in summer. Why? In fact, old cucumbers are rich in fine cellulose, which can promote the excretion of rotten food in the intestines and reduce the concentration of cholesterol. The cucurbitacin it contains has anti-cancer effects, and the propanoic acid it contains can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat, help lose weight, and has the effect of removing dampness, eliminating stagnation, and losing weight. Unexpectedly, hehe. For the old cucumbers used to make soup, you must choose melons with all yellow surfaces, so that the effect will be good.
Summer in Guangdong is extremely hot. In hot weather, people like to stew a pot of hot soup to clear heat and relieve heat. For example, dried vegetable pig exhibition soup, overlord flower soup and lean meat soup, watercress and kidney soup, winter melon cup and so on. For example, in the solar term of great heat, I like to stew a pot of winter melon and duck soup, which can cool off and quench my thirst, nourish yin and nourish fluids, detoxify and remove dampness. It is a good summer soup. Today, I will try to stew this soup in a non-cooker pan.
I went out to eat and packed a box of fish bones (because I ran out of meat, hehe), which was very good for making porridge. Cantonese breakfast in many places has raw rolled fish slices and fish bone porridge, which is very delicious. Guangdong's raw porridge is indeed very unique, and you can put anything in it. There are preserved egg and lean meat porridge, mixed pig porridge, boat porridge, chicken porridge, fish fillet porridge, fish bone porridge, water crab porridge, etc. The ingredients are all marinated with seasonings, then use a small pot to reduce the porridge, add the ingredients, and you can eat it once cooked. It is fresh. The breakfast seller has to get up at three or four in the morning to make a pot of porridge, because a good pot of porridge is very important.