Braised white gourd

By ClementBartoletti

Braised white gourd
Winter melon is a vegetable that can be 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, rectocele, hemorrhoids and other diseases, and can also relieve fish and alcohol poisoning.

Recipe Recommendations

  • winter melon 250 grams
  • oil appropriate amount
  • salt appropriate amount
  • fresh soy sauce appropriate amount
  • chicken essence appropriate amount
  • onion appropriate amount
  • cooking wine appropriate amount

Steps for Braised white gourd

  • Make  step 0
    1
    Peel and seeds the wax gourd, wash and cut into thick slices.
  • Make  step 1
    2
    Heat the pan with oil, put down the wax gourd and fry it over medium heat.
  • Make  step 2
    3
    Fry on both sides until slightly browned.
  • Make  step 3
    4
    Add appropriate amount of water, cooking wine, fresh soy sauce, and cook over medium heat until the wax gourd is cooked.
  • Make  step 4
    5
    Add salt, chicken essence, and chopped green onion and stir well.