After eating winter melon for so many years, it is also the first time to eat winter melon like this, and the winter melon is pickled together with the red heart dragon fruit, and the winter melon that comes out of this way is a bright red color, which looks red and makes people have an appetite. When I was young, I planted winter melons at home to eat, and the most I ate winter melons was also eaten more when I lost weight, because the effect of winter melon scraping oil was the best.
Dragon fruit is a low-energy, high-fiber fruit, water-soluble dietary fiber content is very rich, there are antioxidant, anti-free radical, anti-aging effect, and winter melon dietary fiber content, is the only melon vegetables do not contain fat, with weight loss and beauty effect, but also kidney protection, heat and phlegm, anti-cancer, emollient beauty and other effects, so it is also the most suitable vegetable to eat in summer.
Today's dragon fruit winter melon is to add a little of their own creativity into it, the winter melon with a red heart of the dragon fruit marinade, so that the color will look much brighter, all the ingredients used are natural, without any additives, lemon acid plus dragon fruit sweetness, even if it is losing weight now, there is no need to worry about growing meat at all.
【Dish name】:Dragon fruit winter melon
【Ingredient List】:
1/2 dragon fruit, winter melon, sugar, 2 lemons.
【Cooking steps】:
1, buy back a small piece of winter melon, the winter melon and the seeds inside to remove, after cleaning, cut the winter melon into thumb-thick strips, and then put it into the basin for later.
2, add the right amount of water to the pot, after the water is boiled, put the winter melon into it, cook the winter melon, but do not cook too cooked, the winter melon is slightly discolored.
3: Use the cold water to pass the winter melon again, control the dry water and put it into the bowl for later.
4: Remove the skin of half a red dragon fruit, cut into small strips, cut 1 lemon into slices, squeeze the juice of the other lemon, pour it into the winter melon, remember to remove the seeds of the lemon. Cut lemon slices, dragon fruit into the bowl containing winter melon, add the right amount of white sugar, white sugar can be added a little more, otherwise the winter melon made will be too sour.
5, the lemon, winter melon and dragon fruit stir well, cover with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for one night, let the winter melon color and taste.
6, put the refrigerator a night after taking out, the taste and color is already very good, put the winter melon strips on the plate again, so that the sweet and sour dragon fruit winter melon strips are ready, the color is beautiful and the taste is good. Eat this dish in the summer, sweet and sour, cold and cold, whether it is an adult or a child, eat it once and want to eat it again, especially in the summer, it is very suitable for eating.
【Tips】:
1, if you don't like to eat too sour winter melon, you can not put lemons, or put one less lemon.
2, the purchase of winter melon: when purchasing winter melon, you should choose the skin color green, with white frost, the shape is correct, the epidermis has no spots or trauma, and the skin is not soft, not rotten, you can use your fingernails to pinch it when you choose, the skin is hard, the flesh is tight, the seed has matured the yellow-brown winter melon, the taste is better.
3. Winter melon is cold, spleen and stomach qi deficiency, diarrhea and stool, stomach cold pain should not eat raw cold winter melon, during menstruation and cold dysmenorrhea people should avoid eating raw winter melon.
【Article Editor】Diary of a Foodie of the Sea