Can watermelon skin be eaten?

Edible. Transferred from Xici. Author: I am a baby. Watermelon must be the first choice for many people in hot summer. After enjoying the fresh, sweet and juicy watermelon meat, before preparing to throw away the watermelon skin, have you ever thought that the watermelon skin can actually be used by me and turned into delicious food? Here are some ways to eat watermelon skin. You can try it if you are interested. It is really delicious. 1. Cold watermelon rind Ingredients: watermelon rind, garlic, chicken essence, sugar, salt and sesame oil: 1. Leave a little red pulp on the watermelon skin, peel off the green hard skin of the watermelon and cut it into small pieces. 2. Add minced garlic, chicken essence, sugar, salt and sesame oil to watermelon skin and stir well. 2. Braised pork with watermelon rind Material: watermelon rind, pork belly, star anise and soy sauce Practice: 1. Wash pork belly and cut into pieces. Cut the watermelon into small pieces and peel it (you can leave more red meat) for later use. 2. Put the watermelon skin and pork belly into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, star anise and soy sauce, and stew for 30-40 minutes on medium heat. 3. Guatiao Egg Flower Soup Ingredients: watermelon peel, eggs, tomatoes seasoning: salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil production process: 1. Peel off the green skin outside the watermelon skin, remove the red pulp inside and cut into thin strips. 2. Slice the tomatoes. 3. break the egg. 4. Add water to the soup pot, add the melon strips to boil, then add the tomato slices in turn, pour the egg liquid, and add salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil to taste. Tip: Before pouring the egg liquid, you can add a small amount of starch liquid to the soup, so that the poured egg liquid will not come loose. 4. Ingredients of orange juice, lotus root and watermelon peel: lotus root and watermelon peel seasoning: orange juice, salt and sugar. Production technology: 1. Peel off the green skin of watermelon skin, remove the red pulp inside and cut into strips. 2. Wash the lotus root, scrape off the skin, cut it into pieces and soak it in a cold water basin. 3. Blanch the melon strips and lotus root slices with boiling water, remove and drain. 4. Add an appropriate amount of orange juice, salt and sugar to the melon strips and lotus root slices, mix well until the color is light yellow, and plate. Tip: Don't blanch watermelon peel and lotus root at the same time, because the texture is different. Lotus root and watermelon skin will be easily blanched. 5. Watermelon peel fried edamame ingredients: watermelon peel and edamame seasoning: salt and pepper production process: 1. Peel off the hard skin of watermelon and the red pulp inside, then dice it and marinate it with a little salt for a while. 2. Wash the edamame, put it in a boiling pot, add pepper and salt to cook it, then take it out and drain it for later use. 3. Pour out the water in the pickled diced melon. 4. Add oil to the wok. When the oil is 80% hot, add the diced melon and stir fry, then add the cooked edamame and stir fry together. You can add sour, sweet and spicy condiments according to your personal taste. Tip: when cooking edamame, cut off the sharp corners at both ends, so that the beans are easier to taste. 6. Watermelon skin fried shredded pork material: 200g pork leg, 250g watermelon skin, egg white 1 piece, oil, salt, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, wet starch and sesame oil. Practice: 1. Peel fresh watermelon skin, shred it, add a little salt and mix well. After curing for a period of time, squeeze out the salt water. Pork leg meat is cut into filaments, put into a bowl and mixed with cooking wine, salt, egg white and wet starch for sizing. 2. Wash the pot and put it on medium heat. Add refined oil and heat to 60%. Add shredded pork and sprinkle evenly. Remove and drain the shredded pork after it turns white. 3. Leave the remaining oil in the original pot, put clear soup, salt, monosodium glutamate and cooking wine to boil, add shredded watermelon and shredded pork, turn the pot over a few times, thicken it with wet starch, and pour sesame oil out of the pot. Features: Pork is fresh and tender, and melon tastes crisp and fragrant. 7. Watermelon skin and lotus leaf jellyfish soup Ingredients: soaked jellyfish skin and watermelon skin 250g, fresh loofah 500g, fresh lentils and fresh lotus leaf 100g, fresh bamboo leaves 25g, and a little salt. Production: jellyfish skin, watermelon skin, lentils and loofah are washed and cut into pieces. Wash the lotus leaves and bamboo leaves. Boil a proper amount of water in a pot, add jellyfish skin, watermelon skin, lentils, lotus leaves and bamboo leaves, boil over high fire, and change to slow fire 1 hour, then add loofah, cook for a while, and season with salt. Usage: Take it with meals, 1 ~ 2 times a day, each time 150ml ~ 200ml. Efficacy: clearing heat and relieving summer heat, clearing lung and relieving cough. It is suitable for head and face edema, body heat and thirst, and red eyes and loose stool caused by dampness in summer. 8. Crispy tenderloin Ingredients: watermelon rind, tenderloin seasoning: egg white, cooking wine, salt, and wet starch. Processing technology: 1. Peel fresh watermelon skin, shred, add a little salt and mix well. After curing for a period of time, squeeze out the salt water. 2. Slice the tenderloin into filaments, put it in a bowl, add cooking wine, salt, egg white and wet starch, mix well and size. 3. Add oil to the wok. When the oil is heated to 60% heat by medium fire, add the shredded pork and spread it out. Remove and drain the shredded pork after it turns white. 4. Boil the remaining oil in the original pot with a small amount of clear soup, add shredded watermelon skin and shredded pork, turn the pot over a few times and thicken it with wet starch. Tip: Before frying the shredded pork in the pan, you can keep it fresh and tender by sizing it with egg white, wet starch, cooking wine and salt. 9. Mung bean and watermelon skin soup Ingredients: 100g mung bean and 500g watermelon skin. Practice: Boil mung beans with 1500ml water, take out mung beans after boiling for10min, and then put the washed watermelon peel into water to cook. After boiling, you can drink soup several times a day. Function: clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing annoyance and quenching thirst. The mung bean in the recipe is sweet and cool, which can reduce swelling and reduce qi, clear heat and detoxify, and relieve summer heat and benefit water; Watermelon peel tastes sweet and cold, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, removing annoyance and quenching thirst. Suitable for acne patients in summer. * Watermelon peel, scientific name "Watermelon Cui Yi", is a good medicine for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. For example, baking watermelon peel and grinding it into powder for external use can cure aphtha. 10. Efficacy of American ginseng watermelon skin Yunling decoction: relieving summer heat and dampness, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Drinking more alcohol in summer is suitable for all ages. Ingredients: American ginseng (one or two), watermelon peel (three or two) or fresh (one catty, Poria cocos (one or two), fresh lotus leaf (1). Practice: Wash the materials, put them in a pot and stew for 2 hours. 1 1. Watermelon peel fried green pepper Raw materials: watermelon peel 400g, green pepper 200g Seasoning: a little salt, monosodium glutamate, oil and pepper. Production method: 1. Peel off the green skin outside and the red pulp inside the watermelon skin, cut it into cubes and marinate it with a little salt for a while. 2. Oil the wok, stir-fry the green pepper first, and then put the peeled wax gourd in the green pepper with salt water and stir-fry. 3, add the right amount of seasoning, pan and plate. Features: Crispy and spicy, it is a good accompaniment in summer. 12. Baked watermelon skin with meat Ingredients: several watermelons, some seasonings for pork belly: two slices of ginger, a little soy sauce, salt, monosodium glutamate and oil. Production method: 1. First control the flesh of the melon, then scrape off the green hard skin of the melon, wash it, and cut it into matchbox-sized pieces. 2. Cut the pork belly into small squares. 3, the oil in the pot is hot, put the ginger slices, and the ginger slices begin to shrink. After a few quick fry, add soy sauce and water in turn. 4. After boiling, skim off the floating powder, turn to low heat, and cover the lid tightly. You must open the lid and turn it several times in the middle. When the meat is cooked, add watermelon skin, and then season it out of the pot. Features: the taste of melon skin is far better than that of pork belly. 13. Stir-fried watermelon skin with scallops Ingredients: a pinch of scallops, a plate of sliced melon skin, seasoning: a few carrots, a little starch, minced garlic, Jiang Mo, salt, monosodium glutamate and onion. Production method: 1. Wash scallops and soak them in a small bowl for half a day, then take them out and cut them into shreds; Save the water for soaking scallops. 2. Scrape off the epidermis of watermelon skin, peel off the pulp, and slice with an oblique knife. 3. Heat the oil at 60% to 70%, stir fry the minced garlic and Jiang Mo, and stir fry the bass a few times. 4. Add carrot slices and watermelon skin, stir-fry until the melon skin begins to soften, and pour in the water soaked in scallops. 5. Season after boiling, and thicken with water and starch. Features: fresh and delicious. 14. Stir-fried watermelon rind Ingredients: watermelon rind 400g Seasoning: a little salt, soy sauce, sugar, monosodium glutamate and pepper. Production method: 1. Peel the watermelon and cut it into filaments. 2, stir fry in the pot, add salt, soy sauce, sugar, monosodium glutamate, add a little pepper, you can eat. Features: Sweet and slightly spicy, it is a good appetizer. 15. Watermelon sparerib soup Ingredients: 759 grams of watermelon peel, 0/20 grams of sparerib/kloc, and appropriate amount of salt. Practice: Wash watermelon peel, peel off Tsing Yi, cut into dices, wash ribs, add 8 cups of water, bring to a boil over high fire, add the cut watermelon mesocarp, cook over low fire for 10 minute, add a little salt to taste, and serve 1 time a day. Indications: summer heat, heatstroke, mouth, tongue and lip ulcers. For patients with hypertension, tremella can be added to make soup, which can also be used as a material for female facial massage. Note: People with spleen deficiency and dampness, diarrhea, mental fatigue and greasy fur should not take it. 16. Cui Hua Qingre mung bean porridge material: watermelon peel 200g, mung bean 1 cup, tremella 7.5g Seasoning: 2 tablespoons rock sugar. Practice: 1, wash watermelon skin, scrape off red meat, cut off green skin and cut into small pieces; Wash mung beans and soak them in clear water 1 hour; Wash tremella, soak it soft, remove the hard pedicle and cut it into small flowers for later use; 2. Pour 4 cups of water into the pot, add mung beans and tremella to boil, turn to low heat and cook until soft and rotten, and add watermelon peel and rock sugar to continue cooking 1~2 minutes. Note: This soup is most suitable for drinking in summer, which can prevent spots caused by the sun, but at the same time it has the effect of slimming the whole intestine, so it is best not to drink it when diarrhea occurs.