What are the ways to eat pumpkins and how to make nutritious and delicious pumpkins?

Pumpkin can be eaten in stir-fried pumpkin, home-cooked pumpkin, shrimp pumpkin, pumpkin porridge, pumpkin steamed dumplings and so on. Pumpkins made by these methods are nutritious and delicious.

Pumpkin is a cucurbitaceae plant with edible fruit. Eating more pumpkins has many benefits. Pumpkin can promote growth and development because it is rich in zinc. Zinc can participate in the synthesis of nucleic acid and protein in human body, and is an inherent component of adrenocortical hormone. Pumpkin is high in calcium, potassium and sodium, which is an important substance to promote human growth and development. Mannitol in pumpkin also has diuretic and laxative effects, which can promote the excretion of toxins in the body with urine and feces. Pumpkins can also help to lose weight, because the calories of pumpkins are not very high, and pumpkins are rich in dietary fiber. Pectin contained in pumpkin can protect gastric mucosa from irritation, promote bile secretion, enhance gastrointestinal ability and help digestion.

With people's increasing demands on diet, there are more and more methods to make pumpkins. Homemade pumpkin is a relatively simple method. Heat the oil pan first, then stir-fry the pumpkin until the pumpkin and oil stick together evenly, then pour in half of the water, cover and stew for a while, stir-fry in the middle, cover and continue to stew, and at the same time open the cover to check the soup, turn over to avoid boiling. Stew the pumpkin until it is soft and rotten. Add a little salt and a tablespoon of sugar when you collect the juice, and stir it quickly for a few times before you can eat it. It is convenient, delicious and nutritious. Shrimp and pumpkin are also delicious. First prepare shrimp, pumpkin, salt, garlic, soy sauce and soy sauce. Then wash the shrimp, cut the pumpkin into pieces, cut the garlic into pieces, then add oil and salt to cook the pumpkin, then stir-fry the garlic, add shrimp, salt and soy sauce to stir-fry, and then pour in the pumpkin and stir-fry until cooked.

Pumpkin steamed dumplings are also nutritious and delicious. First, prepare green pumpkin, flour, red pepper, pumpkin sauce, sesame oil, salt, pepper, chicken essence, sugar, garlic cloves and green onions. Then add pumpkin puree into flour, stir with boiling water, knead until smooth, and then let stand. Shred pumpkin and marinate with a little salt 10 minute. Chop red pepper, garlic cloves and green onions respectively. Squeeze the pickled pumpkin dry, and add onion, minced garlic and minced red pepper. Add sugar, chicken essence, pepper and sesame oil and mix well. Rub the dough into strips, cut it into small pieces and roll it into round skins. Take a dumpling skin and stuff it with pumpkin stuffing. Make it into jiaozi and put it into a steamer. Steam it with fire, and you can eat it out of the pot. Very delicious. Jiaozi is tired of eating meat during the Chinese New Year, so you can try making pumpkin steamed dumplings. Finally, remind everyone that pumpkins are delicious, but you can't eat too much at once. Eating too much will contribute to damp heat.