Stir-fried shredded pork with winter melon

Overview

Winter melon is one of the most common home-cooked dishes in autumn and winter. My winter melon was given to me by an old neighbor's aunt. It is a green food. This old aunt's winter melon was also a gift from her daughter's relatives. She said she grew it herself, but it was too big. A long winter melon weighs more than 20 kilograms. The old aunt and her husband are just two people, and both of them are not in good health and don't eat much. My aunt said that she wanted to eat winter melon every time she saw it, but it was too big and she couldn’t finish it after cutting it and was afraid of spoiling it and wasting it, because the opened winter melon cannot be kept for a long time. I just thought about cutting it up and sharing it with several families. Just thinking of my house, I can share a piece of it for her. I was really happy to hear my aunt's explanation, because I usually like to chat with her or help with small things. Auntie feels embarrassed to be old. In fact, everyone gets old sometimes. Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. I hope everyone will care more about the elderly! 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.

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• lunch
• dinner
• beer
• chicken essence
• fresh taste
• green chili
• pork
• winter melon
• ginger
• red pepper
• salt
• sesame oil
• vegetable oil

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Ingredients: Lean winter melon, pepper, ginger beer, vegetable oil, salt-flavored fresh chicken essence and sesame oil

   

2. 2 Peel the winter melon and cut into thick shreds

   

3. 3 Cut the pepper into diagonal sections and mince the ginger

   

4. 4 Cut the lean meat into shreds, mix evenly with beer salt and marinate for a few minutes to get the flavor

   

5. 5 Pour the winter melon in boiling water

   

6. 6 Drain and filter with cold water

   

7. 7 Heat a pan with cold oil, add minced ginger and chili and stir-fry until fragrant

   

8. 8 Add shredded pork and stir-fry evenly,

   

9. 9 Add shredded winter melon and salt and stir-fry

   

10. 10 Taste and add chicken essence

    

11. 11 Stir fry evenly and remove from the pan