Homemade winter melon
Overview
Winter melon is a vegetable that is used both as medicine and food and has a variety of health benefits. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter melon is sweet, light, and cool in nature, and enters the lungs, large intestine, small intestine, and bladder meridian; it has the effects of moistening the lungs and promoting fluid production, resolving phlegm and quenching thirst, diuresis and swelling, clearing away heat, and detoxifying and expelling pus; it can be used to treat summer heat thirst, phlegm-heat cough, edema, athlete's foot, fullness, thirst, acne, facial spots, prolapse, and hemorrhoids. It can also relieve fish and alcohol poisoning.
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Ingredients
Steps
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Winter melon, washed and peeled
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Slice winter melon and set aside
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In a pot, put water and put in the winter melon, just enough so that the water covers the winter melon
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Add appropriate amount of salt
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Heat the pot and bring to a boil. If you see the transparent color of the winter melon, it is ready
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Put it on a plate, sprinkle with chopped green onion, light soy sauce, and a little sesame oil (if you don’t like sesame oil, you can leave it out)
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Finished product
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Let’s eat
