Braised white gourd is a home-cooked dish in Zhejiang cuisine. White gourd is a vegetable used as medicine and food and has multiple health effects. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that wax gourd is sweet, light and cool in nature, and enters the lungs, large intestine, small intestine, and bladder meridians; it has the effects of moistening the lungs and promoting fluid, resolving phlegm and quenching thirst, diuretic and swelling, clearing heat and dispelling heat, detoxifying and discharging pus; it can be used for the treatment of summer heat, thirst, phlegm heat, asthma, edema, beriberi, flatulence, thirst, acne, facial spots, anal prolapse, hemorrhoids and other diseases, and can also relieve fish and alcohol poisoning.
Cooking wax gourd by braising it tastes delicious, melts immediately in the mouth, and has a strong meaty aroma. The aroma of mushrooms and the flavor of winter melon blend together very tempting. Braised wax gourd is a healthy dish for vegetarian meat.
Braised white gourd
Recipe Recommendations
- winter melon 500g
- mushrooms 20g
- soy sauce 1 scoop
- salt 2g
- octagonal one
- salty and fresh
- burn
- ten minutes
- simple
Steps for Braised white gourd
1
Peel and remove the flesh of the wax gourd.
2
Cut into 4- 5 cm squares. Cut the skin into a cross flower knife.
3
Cut the green onion into sections and slice the ginger into slices.
4
Cut the mushrooms into diced pieces.
5
Spread soy sauce on the cut winter melon flower knife surface and color it.
6
Put the oil in the pan, add in the wax gourd skin and fry until faced down.
7
Fry until the skin is colored.
8
Saute star anise and ginger until fragrant.
9
Add mushrooms and stir fry.
10
Place the winter melon skin side down on top of the mushrooms.
11
Add sugar, salt, soy sauce and water to boil.
12
Cook until the soup is concentrated and the wax gourd is soft and rotten.Braised white gourd Make Tips
When boiling until the winter melon is cooked, keep the skin facing down and do not stir it.