What kind of home cooking should I eat in hot summer?

Summer is suitable for eating more cool vegetables: it is conducive to promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, relieving summer heat, clearing away heat and purging fire, expelling toxin and relaxing bowels.

So, which ones are cool?

Cucumber vegetables are bitter gourd, cucumber, melon, towel gourd and watermelon except pumpkin, while tomatoes, eggplant and celery are cool vegetables.

Summer recipes are as follows:

1. Lotus root, winter melon and lentil soup

Ingredients: 380g lotus root, 450g wax gourd, 75g lentil, lean meat 150g, 2 slices of ginger, and appropriate amount of salt.

Exercise:

1. Peel and wash lotus root, and cut into pieces.

2. Wash the wax gourd and cut it into thick slices.

3. Wash lentils.

4. Wash, blanch and rinse the lean meat.

5. Boil a proper amount of water, add lotus root, wax gourd, lentils, lean meat and ginger slices, simmer for 2 hours, and season with salt.

Features: Wax gourd has diuretic, expectorant and heat-clearing effects. Come to a bowl in summer, and the summer heat will all disappear.

2. Cold spinach:

Exercise:

2 kg of spinach, washed, cut into pieces and blanched in boiling water on the stove for later use.

Ingredients: salt, a little monosodium glutamate, garlic powder, sesame oil,

Stir well together. Finally add some amber peanuts. You can serve.

Advantages: it saves time and trouble, is nutritious, refreshing and delicious, and is a delicious cold dish in summer.

Tip: spinach must be washed clean. If you like mustard, you can put mustard oil.

3. Cold bitter gourd:

Ingredients: bitter gourd 500g, cooked vegetable oil 9g, soy sauce 10g, bean paste 20g, refined salt 2g, shredded pepper 25g, garlic paste 5g.

Making:

(1) Cut the bitter gourd in half, remove the pulp, wash it, cut it into strips with a width of 1 cm, blanch it in boiling water, soak it in cold boiling water, take it out, and control the moisture.

(2) adding shredded pepper and refined salt brain into bitter gourd strips. After that, control the moisture, then soak it in cold boiled water and take it out. Add soy sauce, bean paste, garlic paste and cooked oil and mix well.